Online Advertising

Today’s AdTech Roundup covers the latest in Native and Programmatic Advertising, Technology, TV Advertising, Audience Data announcements from Screenvision Media, Feedvisor, Kantar, Digicrown and 6sense. Screenvision Media Amplifies Advertising Network Via Partnership With Atmosphere Screenvision Media, a national leader in cinema and premium video advertising, announced an advertising sales partnership with Atmosphere, the leading streaming TV service for businesses. Screenvision will feature its own channel, “Front +…

Bidmath, the leading programmatic consultancy, brought the first of its kind advertising technology and data consulting hub in Bangkok specialising in both Google and Adobe marketing technology. The company has been working with global brands such as dtac, Honda, Esso, Dyson, Lenovo and Krungsri among others. Over the past year Bidmath have established themselves as a leading experts in technology and data consultancy that can deliver a truly localised service layer across platform implementation, management and…

GroundTruth, the leading global location technology company, announced today the launch of several new capabilities that will expand the reach of location-based marketing through cross-device channels. With the introduction of its new Connected TV (CTV) solution and Desktop offering, coupled with its existing mobile capabilities, GroundTruth is providing marketers broader access to cross-device channels in order to drive consumers to physical points of interest or convert them online. Campaign insights can then be used to…

Turnkey system offers prepared scripts, ready-made branded landing pages to host video communications from the advisor, and coordinated emails to promote the important messages to clients and prospects Snappy Kraken, a MarTech company that helps financial advisors automate and scale their marketing, has released its new tool for bi-weekly video marketing. The "Personal Connection Video" series is offered at no additional cost to current subscribers. The tool includes a prepared script, a ready-made branded landing page to…

Miaozhen Systems, China's leading omni measurement and business intelligence analytics solutions provider, has found that 31.9% of all online advertising traffic in China was invalid in 2019, costing the China brand marketing industry an estimated 28 billion RMB. The report, "China Digital Advertising Invalid Traffic Report in 2019", is the first of its kind to examine invalid traffic in new advertising formats and media. In addition to PC and mobile ads, this report analyzed the state of invalid data in NEW TV ads,…

ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc., an integrated online advertising, precision marketing, and data analysis and management platform company, announced that it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 20, 2020, to extend its 2019 Form 10-K filing deadline by 45 days to May 14, 2020. Marketing Technology News: SalesHood Steps Up to Offer Free Usage of Its Sales Enablement Platform During COVID-19 Crisis The Company applied for the extension due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus,…

75% of users never scroll past the first page of search results which leaves most websites in the dark. Namely, Google uses more than 200 factors to rank pages, making websites' path to the top 10 positions difficult. An increasing number of businesses are turning to SEO experts to increase visibility and outperform their competition in search. TopMarketingCompanies.com, a B2B marketplace connecting brands with digital marketing experts, identified the top SEO marketing companies that help brands improve their online…

Consumer expectations of online advertising are rising; yet, many reports reveal brands don’t deliver on these expectations. Accenture states that over 60 percent of customers have stopped doing business with at least one company because of poor customer experience. What’s more, there have been instances of highly publicized data misuses and privacy breaches, which combined have led to an environment of consumer distrust. This loss of trust has ushered in a new era of Digital Marketing, marked by consumers’ heightened…

"Ad-driven e-commerce should be adopting cybersecurity technologies like behavioral analysis and bot-fingerprinting to allow third-party vendors to look directly at a request." Could you tell us about your journey in technology and how you started at CHEQ? I started my journey in tech back in 2003 when I joined the research wing of the Israeli defense intelligence. I was admitted to a unique program known as “Haman Talpiot,” which is tasked with breeding the next generation of intelligence leadership. I served there for…

Strengthens Balance Sheet and Enterprise Brands Focus Marin Software Incorporated, a leading provider of digital marketing software for performance-driven advertisers and agencies, announced that it has completed a transaction to sell its Perfect Audience business unit to SharpSpring, Inc.. SharpSpring is a global provider of affordable marketing automation delivered via a cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. The transaction is structured as a sale of assets and liabilities with a net cash purchase price…

In advertising, there are several key questions that are always bandied around: how are our ads performing? What’s the ROI like? Are we increasing brand awareness? Marketers using Google Ads have been comfortable responding to these questions, often relying on the ‘average position’ metric but as of 30 September 2019, that metric was fully retired to make way for ‘prominence metrics’, made up of Impression Share and Impression Rate, which have been being phased in since November 2018. In the Digital Age, Why Has Content…

Advertisers State That Data Collection Makes Ads More Helpful for Online Visitors. New Data from Visual Objects Indicates That Highly Targeted Ads Could Negatively Impact Businesses' Potential to Engage with AD-Fatigued Consumers, Though. Nearly half of users of ad blockers (45%) say they would avoid a company's website if that company targeted them with ads, according to a new survey report from portfolio website Visual Objects. Businesses argue that personalization makes ads more useful for potential customers, but…

Tell us about your journey into the digital technology industry? My journey into the digital really started in my early 20s - in 1999, I enrolled in a Software Engineering program. Throughout my university years, I worked as a web developer as a sideline to make a little bit of cash and one summer, a couple of friends and I decided to launch a dating website, as it had just become a huge trend. This is where I started to understand the importance of online advertising, as it ended up bringing us a huge chunk of our…

Smartphone Accounts for More Than Half of All Digital Ad Spend IAB UK, the trade association for digital advertising, has announced the results of the latest IAB UK and PwC Digital Adspend study, which reveals UK advertisers spent £13.44billion on digital advertising in 2018. The total ad spend figure is a 15 percent year-on-year increase and demonstrates continued confidence in the power of digital advertising. For the first time ever, ad spend on smartphones has exceeded desktop accounting for 51 percent of the…

As consumers spend more time online, expectations for a more personalized and seamless experience continue to increase. When not managed effectively, online advertising is often seen as a negative disruption in the consumer’s overall journey, which limits engagement and ad performance. The good news for marketers is that the solution lies in the form of state-of-the-art advertising technology. Ad tech can create ads that inspire shoppers with the right product at the right time, while reflecting the brand’s vision and…

Earlier last month, the UK government released a report calling for an investigation into the online advertising market, after fears that the rapid growth of online platforms is increasingly becoming a threat to the future of the UK news industry. Included in the report was the suggestion that online platforms should be placed under regulatory supervision, with the introduction of new codes of conduct that would work to rebalance the relationship between publishers and online platforms. This is just one way in which…

GroupM Has Partnered with the 614 Group to Produce the Only Executive-Focused Event Dedicated to Addressing Brand Safety's Toughest Challenges The 614 Group and GroupM announced a strategic event partnership to bring educational content on brand safety to the global online advertising and marketing community. The partnership marries GroupM's valuable industry perspective and The 614 Group's expertise around educating media leaders on current brand safety initiatives. As a first step in the partnership, John…

New Regional IAB Singapore to Promote Global Standards & Best Practices Following IAB Singapore’s sevenfold growth in the last four years and strong demand from members, the industry not for profit has officially expanded to become IAB SEA+India to represent the local markets of Southeast Asia and India. This move brings together publishers, agencies and platforms from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and India. Businesses with IAB Singapore membership will immediately transfer to IAB…

Given the recent news that Pinterest has hired its first COO as part of its plans to launch a public offering, it’s an exciting time for user-generated content (UGC). Pinterest is a living example of the increasing power of UGC, having been valued at around $12.3 billion (that’s £8.85 billion). With 300 million users expected this year, the platform’s growing popularity reflects the market’s appetite for consumers to engage directly with brands. If you’re asking yourself about the market’s potential, the numbers speak for…

Guillaume Marcerou Global Privacy Director, Criteo Recently, Criteo released its GDPR Checklist for the upcoming disruption that is seen as one of the biggest challenges for data marketers in 2018. To understand the deeper aspects of GDPR and its impact on the ‘Sensitive’ and ‘Non-sensitive’ data, we spoke to Criteo's Global Privacy Director, Guillaume Marcerou.Tell us about your role in Criteo and the team you handle. My role is to manage the risks and business impact of privacy laws and regulation, thus protecting…