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.
Independent adtech providers continue to chisel away at the dominance of the Big Walled Gardens, and streaming TV may provide them with a revenue boost. However, the move to fully decisioned programmatic trading across the broadcast space appears to be some way off.
European data regulators banning Meta from using user data to power its ad business without their explicit consent - and Meta's reaction in launching a subscription service - provides a litmus test for the rest of the ad industry around consent, the value of data and the underpinnings of the 'free' internet.
The digital ad supply chain is under renewed scrutiny as big advertisers start to direct ad budgets based on publisher carbon footprints. But whether for environmental reasons or simply investment efficiency, some of the people who helped build the programmatic industry think a shakeout is long overdue.
Tune in to episode 14 of AdTech | AlikeAudience, where the Head of South East Asia, LiveRamp Seow Ping Tan, and AlikeAudience Co-founder Bosco Lam talk about the importance of using first-party data in a privacy-compliant manner as advertisers transition to a post-cookie world in digital advertising, with business and technology journalist Duncan Craig.
Amazon isn't messing about - the internet giant is pushing all Prime subscribers by default onto its streaming ad tier. That heaps pressure on rivals struggling to scale. For the likes of Netflix, the business case for FAST channels just got a lot more compelling.
Last year the ad industry did its best to talk itself into a recession. It never came – and some of the world’s biggest advertisers have been spending hard. Can they keep it up – and where’s the money headed?
Artificial intelligence could be seen as either an opportunity or a threat to the digital advertising industry. Ad agencies and platforms are rushing to produce computer-generated campaign work. How will it play out?