Zefr, the leading independent contextual data platform for brand suitability across YouTube and Facebook, has named Ross Nicol VP of EMEA, Ultano Kindelan Williams as commercial director, Southern Europe and Kenny Spangberg as commercial director, Nordics. Together, they’ll be responsible [...]

These are strange times, readers. COVID continues to tear away at the socio-economic fabric of the world. The once noble institutions of the ad tech ‘POWA’ breakfast, and the extended media lunch, have been reduced to sad Zoom/Google Meet/Microsoft Teams [...]

Bidstack, the leading in-game advertising platform, and Nautilus Mobile, creators of the hugely popular Real Cricket™ series have announced a new and exclusive in-game advertising partnership. Bidstack will deliver contextually relevant, realistic and unintrusive ads designed to fit seamlessly into the in-game environment [...]

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, today announced that Verizon Media’s DSP now offers both IAS’s contextual targeting and contextual avoidance capabilities across programmatic ad buys. Verizon Media DSP made this function generally available this [...]

GumGum today published a case study indicating that digital advertising campaigns that employ contextual targeting are more cost efficient than behaviourally targeted campaigns. The study, sponsored in partnership with Dentsu Aegis Network and conducted by an independent third-party researcher, also found [...]

Adverty AB (publ) has invented and launched a new in-game brand advertising format called In-MenuTM, which enables contextually relevant IAB display banner ads on menu screens in between gameplay. The new ad unit, along with Adverty’s In-PlayTM format, completes a [...]

MGID, the global pioneer in native advertising, yesterday (24th August) announced it has signed a deal with Opera Ads, one of the world’s major browser providers and leader in AI-driven content delivery. Through the deal, MGID will provide advertisers with access to [...]

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, today (24th August) announced the launch of ‘Context Control’, a sophisticated new suite of brand safety and suitability solutions. The Context Control suite of solutions now incorporates the premiere semantic [...]

Research Measurement Technologies, Inc. (RMT) specialises in coding ads by their 265 empirically-derived subconscious motivating signals called DriverTagsTM. Its methodology has been repeatedly and publicly validated by objective third parties — Nielsen NC Solutions, 605, and Simmons — in studies [...]

With the sun rapidly setting on third-party cookies, a persistent global pandemic, and social and political unrest around the world, there has never been more pressure on brands to ensure that their advertising is not just accurate, but relevant and [...]