Global marketing trends: adspend to exceed pre-pandemic peak with 11% rise this year
Global adspend will exceed the pre-pandemic peak by 6% this year, with digital set to take 58% share of market in 2021, up from 48% in 2019, according to new data.
IPA report: UK marketing budgets grow for the first time since start of pandemic
Total marketing budgets across the UK increased for the first time since Q4 2019, rising by a net balance of 6% across surveyed companies, according to new data.
European digital ad growth defies pandemic: Germany and Turkey lead growth as UK remains biggest spender
European countries had a combined digital advertising market value of €69bn, with only three countries seeing falls in growth for the year, despite lockdown disrupting business as usual, according to new research.
SpotX integrates TVSquared for global CTV measurement
TVSquared has been selected by SpotX, the leading global video advertising platform, as a preferred measurement and attribution partner to power transparent, real-time analytics on delivery, audience, and outcomes for national, regional, and local connected TV (CTV) campaigns.
IPA Bellwether: UK marketers optimistic ‘for first time since 2015’
Marketers have expressed overall optimism about the economy for the first time since 2015, according to the latest IPA Bellwether Report.
Tableau launches ‘Business Science’ AI-powered analytics tool
Analytics platform Tableau has introduced Business Science, a new AI-powered analytics that aimed at lowering the barrier to data science techniques.
Samba TV partners PubMatic for programmatic TV ads
Samba TV, a provider of omniscreen advertising and analytics, has struck a multi-market partnership with PubMatic, a sell-side platform for digital advertising.
Matterkind hires Adnami to deliver programmatically ads across Nordic markets
Danish tech company Adnami, which specialises in programmatic, high-impact advertising solutions, has signed a partnership with Matterkind to help the activation intelligence company optimise campaigns across all four Nordic markets – Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland.
Inskin unveils new conversational advertising feature with Cavai
Conversational advertising platform, Cavai, has struck a new partnership with Inskin, a provider of high impact digital display advertising.
AudioMob launches new Demand Side Platform for ‘audio ads for games’
Google for Startups company AudioMob has launched launch of its own proprietary Demand Side Platform (DSP) to sell audio ads for video games.
IPA Bellwether: Small rise in marketers’ optimism on vaccine hope
Marketers have enjoyed a confidence boost with a net balance of 18.1% more confident about the financial prospects of their company than three months ago, according to the latest IPA Bellwether report.
21 social media data points for 2021: Pinterest is the secret social star
Pinterest is secretly the fastest growing platform in revenue, while ecommerce spending on Facebook grew 57% this year, according to new stats looking at the biggest social media marketing trends to expect in 2021.
The year in review: The digital trends that shaped 2020
From the economic effects and catastrophic loss of life brought on by the pandemic to the growing climate emergency, 2020 was year many would want to forget. But beyond the tragedy and uncertainly there were many positive stories of unity against adversity – and the digital marketing sector was no different. We take a month-by-month look back at how advertisers and tech giants alike adapted to a year like no other.
Programmatic and data firms Crimtan and Adara partner up to boost customer acquisition
Programmatic and data giants Crimtan and Adara have struck a partnership to combine Adara’s global identities, with Crimtan’s intelligent lifecycle marketing capabilities.
Xandr and Meetrics team up to boost programmatic advertising purchasing
Xandr and Meetrics have joined forces to help provide more control of the programmatic purchasing of ad displays for buyers.
WARC: UK ad market ‘won’t recover until 2022’
The UK ad market is now not expected to recover fully until 2022, as the global pandemic continues to hit marketing budgets, according to the latest WARC adspend forecast.
IPA Bellwether: No ‘green shoots’ yet for marketing budgets but pace of decline slows
UK ad spend has fallen sharply for the third quarter in a row as marketers grapple with Covid-19 restrictions, Brexit and economic uncertainty, according to new data.
UK digital ad spend tumbled 5% in first half of 2020
UK digital advertising spend dropped 5% in the first half of 2020, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, with most of the damage in the second quarter, according to new data from IAB UK and PwC.
Programmatic ‘key driver of UK digital media quality improvements’
Programmatic has fuelled the boost in media quality across the UK, outperformed global averages across desktop display, desktop video, mobile web display and mobile web video, according to new research.
Programmatic ads now make up 77% of display
The role of programmatic media has leapt. European programmatic adspend topped €23bn, with 77% of display and more than 50% of video now traded that way. Better use of data’ was the top driver from advertisers.