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Global advertising technology leader, The Trade Desk, launched its new advertising campaign, titled “As Explained By." Directed by comedian Neal Brennan, the two short films use humor to compare the advertising limitations of walled gardens -- such as today’s popular search and social platforms -- with opportunities of the Open Internet. The ads are part of The Trade Desk’s Media For Humankind campaign, which launched in September 2019 and highlights the importance of the Open Internet for digital advertising. Marketing…

Organic growth in digital media consumption is driving budget allocation towards associated advertising, with digital investment expected to grow almost 13% year-on-year, reaching around half of the total APAC ad spend. But, as we enter a new decade, marketers must carefully consider where those budgets are spent. Tempting as it may be to go for attention-grabbing techniques and quick wins, these will only result in ad fatigue and avoidance, as well as damage to brand reputation. Instead, marketers should take a…

Markpoint is happy to announce the launch of Markpoint DSP, a demand-side platform that enables advertisers to programmatically buy display, native, and video ads across web, mobile, and in-app. The Markpoint DSP aims to help advertisers, demand and supply partners grow their businesses, reach their marketing KPIs, and do that most cost-effectively. Markpoint team brings to the table years of expertise in advertising, marketing, technology, and data, as well as measurable capacities. Marketing Technology News: Why…

Over the last ten years, digital advertising has come a very long way. At the turn of 2010, we were only beginning to see the very early potential of video ads, we weren’t quite aware of the impact that social media would have on the industry and mobile phones were soon to introduce a new wave of digital advertising. Since then, we’ve seen digital ads and the technologies that power them continue to mature, as consumers become ever more conscious of not only being bombarded by flurries of irrelevant content, but also of…

Fluid Player, the free, open-source, HTML5 video player has released two new features: VR (virtual reality) support and VPAID (video player ad-serving interface definition) support. Even though virtual reality is still in the early stages of ad format development and adoption, Fluid Player’s VR feature allows both publishers and advertisers to experiment with VR content/ad formats. Fluid Player supports monoscopic (equirectangular) videos with 360-degree view or in Cardboard view (for Google Cardboard.) Marketing…

Developers Using More Ad Formats and Showing More Ads per Session as Confidence Grows and Revenues Rise The fifth annual In-Game Advertising Study, released by deep-data analytics and player management company, deltaDNA, finds that 94% of Free-to-Play (F2P) games now feature some form of in-game advertising (up from 87% in 2018). While the number of developers making between 40-100% of their revenue from ads has increased by 21% year on year. The study, which is based on the experiences and opinions of hundreds of game…

Ad blocking will improve your online experience The volume of advertising on the internet continues to increase. Many internet users don't want to be interrupted by advertisements while surfing the net, but rather spend time relaxing. Adblock Plus makes it possible to surf the web without annoying advertising. The extension is installed as a web application in the browser and prevents advertisements from being displayed and downloaded. The internet plays a big role in all areas of life. People read news online, they…

Tell us about your respective roles and journey into Technology.  Mike Anderson: After founding Tealium in 2008, I’ve since served as the Chief Architect behind the company’s market-leading tag management and unified customer data orchestration platforms. Previously, I worked at WebSideStory (Adobe Systems), where I served as a Senior Engineer on the core Architecture team. As the builder and leader of the company’s Professional Services team, I oversaw analytics tag implementations for Disney, Target, Cisco, Citi, FedEx,…

Seeing your product in action helps convert customers eager to try before they buy. This is especially true for beauty brands. Now with the help of augmented reality, trying on lipstick, once only possible in-store, can be done virtually on YouTube. At the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity this year, YouTube introduced AR Beauty Try-On, which lets viewers virtually try on makeup while following along with YouTube creators using front-facing smartphone cameras. YouTube made AR Beauty Try-On available first through an…

This Newly Discovered Re-Direct Attack Marks the Continued Escalation of Malware Attacks like Steganography and WebRTC Which Go Undetected via Traditional Blacklisting, the Most Frequently Used Method to Block Malicious Ads this Is the Result of Abuse of Sandboxed iFrames Which Were Developed to Provide Safe Communications Between the Publisher’s Content and the Advertiser For serving video ads, marketers and agencies have embraced the VPAID (Video Player Ad-serving Interface Definition) ad format which enables…

Ad fraud impacts real people with real lives, sometimes putting them in mortal danger, and we should be paying more attention to this reality. We typically think of ad fraud as click spamming, SDK spoofing, device farms, and bots delivering fake impressions—stuff that causes brands to lose money (lots of it), but ad fraud can be much more nefarious. Brands are often construed as the main victims of ad fraud because they have the largest at stake. No doubt, this is a giant issue and one that, in full disclosure, my company…

Consumers have some basic expectations for their advertising. They expect TV ads to run 30 seconds or so, print ads to feature provocative headlines and direct response ads to try to direct us to do something. We also expect outdoor ads not to move, but that’s changing. Digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising is expected to be a $4.5 billion market in the U.S. next year, up from $1.2 billion in 2016. Such ads -- often featuring video or animation -- are also showing up in new places. We now see video ads on Uber and Lyft…

Hila Shitrit Nissim VP Communications, Slidely Video is one of the fastest growing modes of digital advertising that also has the highest rates of engagement. To understand the intricacies of visual content and make sense of the direction that this industry is moving in, we spoke to Hila Shitrit Nissim, VP Communications, SlidelyTell us about your role at Slidely and the team and technology that you handle. I joined Slidely approximately a year ago to lead marketing and communications. As part of my role, I am…

The rewarded video ad format is adored by the mobile gaming and advertising worlds. We now finally have an ad format that satisfies the needs of advertisers, publishers and gaming audiences. Rewarded video ads provide gamers with a reward for watching the entire length of a video ad. In the mobile gaming world, this format works extremely well in mobile games. For developers, rewarded video ads offer the potential to increase in-app purchases and lengthen play session times, therefore increasing loyalty and retention. Also,…

Gen Z Is Outpacing Millenials in Consuming Stories on Social Media, Says VidMob Study If you have been wondering how to get Millennials and Gen Z to your website, the new VidMob study might just help you. According to the ‘State of Social Video’ study, it’s the videos posted on social media that serve as the primary portal to the web for younger audiences. The study reveals how Millennials and Gen Z consume video content, their engagement with video ads, how they form perceptions about brands. According to the VidMob…

Srinivas KC VP and GM, Video, InMobi Programmatic has come a long way since Jimmy Kimmel called it the 'gluten of advertising'. Today, programmatic advertising is the hottest buzzword for advertisers; much of it attributed to the shining rise of 'mobile advertising'. Recently, InMobi, a leading mobile adtech provider, announced it has entered a strategic technology collaboration with Microsoft. To better understand the state of mobile adtech and it's relation to programmatic, we spoke to Srinivas KC, VP and GM, Video,…

In the highly competitive mobile apps market, growth is largely driven by continually acquiring a steady stream of new users to your app, and you must continue achieving profitable user acquisition in order to survive. However, mobile advertising is a constantly changing landscape. What is working for you today may not be working for you tomorrow. Further, 95% of your direct response advertising creative fails to outperform the best-performing assets in your portfolio, so you're constantly working to find that 5 % of…

Extreme Reach, Adstream and Ad-ID Collaborate on Tech White Paper Advertisers and brands are facing an increasing set of challenges when it comes to delivering their video ads across non-linear channels. According to a new paper, the absence of a widely accepted unique identifier for every ad, coupled with outdated workflow processes, is costing the industry millions – in missed opportunities to fulfill programmatic ad requests, delayed campaign starts and hundreds of staff hours wasted on the search for creative assets.…

"The problem hasn’t been the targeting technology, it has been the ability to get the creative necessary to deliver a targeted message." Tell us about your role at VidMob and how you got here. What inspired you to launch a video technology platform? I’m the founder and CEO of VidMob. My entire career has been spent as an entrepreneur, working at the intersection of technology and media. I have always been interested in video and found myself becoming increasingly convinced that the shift to video was going to be a very…

Neal Sinno GM and VP Operations, Playbuzz Modern marketing technologies are created with two strategic aspects at their core -- first, to deliver unprecedented customer experiences; and then, manage the performance and validity of the CX performance based on audience conversions. Video monetization products catapult marketers and advertisers to achieve both, in a programmatic ecosystem. To understand how should app-marketers and mobile advertising platforms make better use of Video Monetization and news streaming…