Adtech players who claim to have silver bullets should be prepared to demonstrate their products are original and able to function as claimed. Rene Menezes, who is co-founder and sits on the board of directors at CtrlShift, says that, while many [...]

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld convention – an announcement that also ushered in the birth of the app market, an industry that may top USD$77bn (£61.6bn) in 2017. Entrepreneurs, recognising that smartphones represented [...]

The Q1 2017 Bellwether Report, released by the IPA last week (19 April, 2017), highlights improved financial prospects and an extension to the run of marketing budget growth, to four and a half years. With a predicted rise in GDP, [...]

Amid the chaos and confusion surrounding the recent brand safety issues in programmatic advertising, another debate has been slowly building momentum among those on both the buy and sell sides of the industry: the first-price auction model, writes independent ad [...]

Marketers in Asia-Pacific lack confidence in programmatic because too many different metrics are being thrown around and they are sceptical over which one actually works. Rather than blame their agencies, however, marketers in this region need to take the lead and [...]

It’s no secret that audio content stirs our emotions. All it takes are a few notes of a song for our memories to come alive. Considering how audio, especially music and storytelling, captures our attention, it becomes clear why advertisers [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sum up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Singapore has lowest video viewability in region; Lack of cross-device view distorting SEA attribution data; AdAsia secure [...]

Header bidding offers publishers in Asia-Pacific the ability to regain control over ad-decisioning and enables them to provide access to scaled programmatic inventory. There are, however, challenges unique to certain markets in the region that publishers need to look out [...]

Accuracy is paramount when dealing with location-based marketing, due to the fact that if your location starting point is incorrect, then everything that follows will be exponentially flawed. As Paul Thompson (pictured below), VP EMEA, Blis, explains, this is the most common [...]

In a world with so many online and offline touchpoints, and disparate data sources, it's challenging for marketers to recognise the same users. So how do they overcome this? ExchangeWire speak exclusively with Manu Mathew, co-founder and CEO, Visual IQ, about [...]