March 11, 2024

AdTech Leaders See Digital at a Pivot Point

Less than two months into 2024 and the digital advertising market faces transformation, from cookie deprecation, AI, media consolidation, and fragmentation. The big bets are on video streaming, generative AI, and quality media curation. The focus remains firmly on monetizing audiences in the new era of privacy-first advertising.
February 14, 2024

Major Ad Agency Fires Latest Salvo as Ad Holdcos, AdTechs, Vie for Supremacy

Omnicom is the latest of the major ad agency groups to deal itself into retail and commerce media's high stakes game as Amazon eyes $50 billion slice within months. Meanwhile, Criteo's plan appears to be paying off.
February 6, 2024

What’s Pushing Advertisers Out of the Open Web and Into Retail Media?

The media supply chain has largely kept quiet on the ANA's programmatic transparency report. But grasping the nettle now could avoid billions of dollars moving faster into retail media and the walled gardens.
January 23, 2024

Mobile and Retail Shape Up as Sectors to Watch in 2024

While all the focus will be on the move to a privacy-first digital advertising world by the end of 2024, the mobile app and retail media networks arenas will be fascinating to watch, as a confluence of factors mean both sectors are ripe for disruption.
January 22, 2024

2024: Consolidation Looming for Media, AdTech, and Publishers

The next 12 months could kickstart a wave of consolidation across the media landscape - from the big TV networks and streamers through to the smaller independent publishers and the adtech middlemen.
January 2, 2024

Cut the Chain, Buy Direct, and Rethink Open Web

A forensic dive in the programmatic supply chain by US peak advertisers body the ANA could signal significant consolidation - if marketers are listening.
December 27, 2023

A New Age of Advertising Technology in 2024

Digital advertising in 2024 will be transformed by new privacy rules, AI, new media channels, and the dominance of Big Tech. It will be a rollercoaster year as brands and advertisers seek to deploy technology the right way to optimize media spend.
December 6, 2023

Cookie Cull: Will UID 2.0 See a Second Wave?

Alternative IDs and alternative cross-media measurement technologies could see a second wave of adoption now that Google insists cookies have one year max.
November 30, 2023

Why AdTech’s New Era Will Revolve Around the Data Collaboration Platform

Data Collaboration will take center stage from the mid 2020s as brands seek to unleash the power of their own customer intelligence and work with other data providers and partners that may not immediately appear obvious.
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