Agoracom Blog Home

Archive for the ‘Good Life Networks’ Category

Good Life Networks $GOOD.ca – Mobile accounted for almost 80 per cent of programmatic spend in China last year $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 5:00 PM on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
SPONSOR: Good Life Networks (GOOD:TSX-V) Video advertising is the future! Company’s A.I. makes 80,000 calculations / second, targeting 750 million users to deliver higher prices and volume. Company announced combined trailing 12 month revenue at just over $40 Million, $7.9M EBITDA, $3 Million net income. Click here for more information.
GOOD: TSX-V

—————————

Mobile accounted for almost 80 per cent of programmatic spend in China last year

By: Tim Maytom

  • Programmatic spending in China has surged over the past year, increasing by 48.6 per cent year-on-year to hit a total of $16.7bn (£11.9bn) in 2017, according to new figures from eMarketer.

Spending was driven by local internet giants like Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, who are expected to continue to dominate the programmatic ad landscape. The so-called ‘BAT companies’ cast a large shadow over digital publishing in the region, with most advertisers buying directly through one of the BAT companies.

As a result, direct sales accounted for 63.5 per cent of programmatic digital display ad spending last year, compared to just 36.5 per cent through real-time bidding.

With many Chinese consumers considered mobile-first, digital advertisers in the region have followed suit, with 79.9 per cent of programmatic spend dedicated to mobile advertising, and mobile expected to keep driving total programmatic growth.

Despite this rapid growth, programmatic’s share of overall display ad spending in China lags behind the US and the UK, at 60 per cent, compared to 78 per cent and 79 per cent respectively. This is largely due to the limited options available to advertisers in China, compared to the more competitive spread of publishers in the US and UK, which enables more spending.

eMarketer’s forecast for the region predicts that growth will continue to slow over the next few years but will remain healthy, dropping to 36.6 per cent this year, and 29.8 per cent in 2019. By 2019, programmatic is expected to account for 69 per cent of all digital display ad spending, with spending of around $29.6bn.

Source: https://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/mobile-accounted-for-almost-80-per-cent-of-programmatic-spend-in-china-last-year

Good Life Networks $GOOD.ca Doubles Client Base with the Completion of 495 Communication Integration $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:30 AM on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
  • Announced that it has completed the operational integration of recently acquired 495 Communications LLC, a leading Connected Television, advertising and content marketing company
  • CTV refers to any TV that can be connected to the internet and access content beyond what is available from a traditional cable provider.

Vancouver, British Columbia–(March 5, 2019) – Good Life Networks Inc. (TSXV: GOOD) (FSE: 4G5) (“GLN“, or the “Company“), an advertising technology company, today announced that it has completed the operational integration of recently acquired 495 Communications LLC (“495“), a leading Connected Television (“CTV“), advertising and content marketing company.

CTV refers to any TV that can be connected to the internet and access content beyond what is available from a traditional cable provider. By finalizing the integration of 495, GLN integrates over 50 new clients onto its platform, bringing its total client base to just over 100 publishers and advertisers for the remainder of 2019, up from 47 exiting 2018.

495 also brings GLN a number of owned-and-operated CTV channels on Roku, including long form movie content apps. 495 has exclusive rights to advertise on numerous premium CTV channels, where users can watch advertising supported movies and video content. Roku pioneered streaming for TV and has over 15 million monthly active accounts streaming over 7 billion hours of video and music per year.

Jesse Dylan, GLN CEO commented, “The acquisition of 495 fits well with our aggressive growth strategy through acquisitions. GLN’s operational integration of 495 is off to a great start, with both the traditional business and the exciting CTV app business proving valuable additions to our company.” Jesse Dylan added, “With the successful completion of 495 and recent Impression X integrations, I believe we will be able to carve out a significantly piece of what is expected to be a 13.3-billion-dollar industry this year.”

Bret Polansky, incoming VP for GLN and former CEO of 495 added, “The CTV space is experiencing exponential growth right now. By 2020 more than 75% of families will have TVs connected to the internet in the United States. By positioning ourselves in the owned-and-operated CTV app space we have an exciting opportunity to capitalize on the advertising opportunities through GLNs technology.”

In addition to the owned-and-operated CTV apps, 495 also has long-term exclusive agreements to represent dozens of third-party CTV apps on an exclusive basis. It is anticipated that this number will grow on both an organic and inorganic basis.

The GLN Story

GLN’s advertising technology is the engine that sits between advertisers and publishers. The GLN Platform is built for cross device video advertising: Mobile, In-App, Desktop and CTV (Connected Television). The Programmatic Video Marketing Platform is powered by GLN’s Patent Pending proprietary machine learning technology that targets and connects digital advertisers with consumers three times faster than industry standards, with among the lowest fraud rates of similar vendors without collecting PII (Personal Identifiable Information). Advertisers make more money by reaching their target audience more effectively. GLN makes money by retaining a percentage of the advertiser’s fee.

GLN is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with offices in Newport Beach and Santa Monica California, New York and UK and trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the stock symbol “GOOD” and The Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the stock symbol 4G5.

Contact:
[email protected]

CEO Jesse Dylan
604 265 7511

Forward Looking Statements:

Forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect the expectations or beliefs regarding future events of management of GLN. This information and these statements, referred to herein as “forward‐looking statements”, are not historical facts, are made as of the date of this news release and include without limitation, statements regarding discussions of future plans, estimates and forecasts and statements as to management’s expectations and intentions with respect to the performance of the company. These statements generally can be identified by use of forward-looking words such as “may”, “will”, “expect”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “intends”, “believe” or “continue” or the negative thereof or similar variations. These forward‐looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties and actual results might differ materially from results suggested in any forward-looking statements. Important factors that may cause actual results to vary include without limitation, risks relating to the digital advertising industry and general economic conditions, success of acquisitions and any growth strategies implemented by the company. In making the forward‐looking statements in this news release, the Company has applied several material assumptions, including without limitation that any acquisitions and corporate directives and initiatives will be successfully completed in the time expected by management and produce the desired results, generate the anticipated revenue and expand GLN’s global reach per management’s expectations. GLN does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those reflected in the forward looking-statements, other than as required by applicable securities laws. Additional information identifying risks and uncertainties is contained in GLN’s filings with the Canadian securities regulators, which filings are available at www.sedar.com.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

To view the source version of this press release, please visit https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/43228

Good Life Networks $GOOD.ca – #Programmatic Advertising Market is further estimated to reach nearly US$ 30,000 Mn by 2025-end $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:26 AM on Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
SPONSOR: Good Life Networks (GOOD:TSX-V) Video advertising is the future! Company’s A.I. makes 80,000 calculations / second, targeting 750 million users to deliver higher prices and volume. Company announced combined trailing 12 month revenue at just over $40 Million, $7.9M EBITDA, $3 Million net income. Click here for more information.
GOOD: TSX-V

—————————

Programmatic Advertising Market is further estimated to reach nearly US$ 30,000 Mn by 2025-end.

  • Persistence Market Research (PMR), in its report, projects the global programmatic advertising platform market to register a staggering expansion at 33.3% CAGR during the forecast period 2017 to 2025.
  • In 2016, the market was evaluated at US$ 1,926.4 Mn, and is further estimated to reach nearly US$ 30,000 Mn by 2025-end.

Surging Utilization of Mobile Advertising to Propel Growth

With growing market for mobile phones, wide utilization of mobile advertising is witnessed, coupled with surging demand for more sophisticated technology. Emergence of tools to monitor & measure relevant data on mobile devices is influencing bright prospects for programmatic mobile video. There has been a wide adoption of digital technologies & devices for innovation in business processes and revenue producing opportunities. In addition, several government and international events have generated an incremental online advertising spending, which in turn has influenced adoption of programmatic advertisements. The aforementioned factors are expected to fuel growth of the market during the forecast period. In addition, social media marketers are running more effective campaigns through automated buying, reaching precise audiences with highly relevant messages. This is further estimated to propel market growth.

North America to be Largest Market for Programmatic Advertising Platform by 2025-End

North America is projected to be the largest market for programmatic advertising platform, followed by Europe and Asia Pacific (APAC). Market in this region will account for revenues worth US$ 1,683.30 Mn in 2017, and is further estimated to surpass US$ 13,000 Mn by 2025-end. However, Middle East & Africa (MEA) is anticipated to register fastest growth in the global programmatic advertising platform market, followed by Latin America.

Based on transaction mode, real-time bidding segment will remain preferred in the market during the forecast period. This transaction mode is expected to surpass US$ 16,000 Mn in revenues by 2025-end. In contrast, private marketplace transaction mode is projected to exhibit the fastest expansion at 46.7% CAGR through 2025. This segment is further estimated to create an incremental opportunity of US$ 5,787.71 Mn between 2017 and 2025.

Mobile Video Ad Format to Register Highest CAGR in the Market through 2025

By ad format, revenues generated by mobile video is expected to reach US$ 8.682.57 Mn by 2025, and is projected to register the highest CAGR in the market, followed by mobile display. In terms of revenues, desktop video will be the second largest ad format segment by 2025-end. On the basis of enterprise size, although large enterprises are expected to remain dominant over the market, SMBs are projected to register the fastest growth through 2025. PMR’s report estimates large enterprises to expand from US$ 2,190.55 Mn in 2017 to more than US$ 16,000 Mn by 2025-end. SMBS are estimated to exhibit a CAGR of over 40% during the forecast period.

Key market players identified in PMR’s report include AppNexus Inc., AOL Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Yahoo! Inc., DataXu Inc., Adroll.com, Google Inc. (Doubleclick), Adobe Systems Incorporated, Rubicon Project Inc., Rocket Fuel Inc., MediaMath Inc., IPONWEB Holding Limited (BidSwitch), Between Digital, Fluct, Adform, The Trade Desk, Turn Inc., Beeswax, Connexity, Inc., Centro, Inc., RadiumOne, Inc.

Source: https://honestbusinessman24.com/2019/02/programmatic-advertising-market-is-further-estimated-to-reach-nearly-us-30000-mn-by-2025-end/

Good Life Networks $GOOD.ca – 6 ad trends you need to know $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 2:59 PM on Friday, February 15th, 2019
SPONSOR: Good Life Networks (GOOD:TSX-V) Video advertising is the future! Company’s A.I. makes 80,000 calculations / second, targeting 750 million users to deliver higher prices and volume. Company announced combined trailing 12 month revenue at just over $40 Million, $7.9M EBITDA, $3 Million net income. Click here for more information.
GOOD: TSX-V

—————————

6 ad trends you need to know


  • With colourful banner ads and video content competing for eyeballs, it can be easy for advertisers to forget about the power of audio.
  • But as we enter 2019, this programmatic opportunity is becoming harder to ignore.

With the holidays over, this is the time to reflect and fine-tune strategies for the year ahead. 2018 was a whirlwind of changes, and it continues to be a challenge differentiating your brand and maintaining trust in a world where everyone is vying for attention. The more you can stay ahead of the curve, the better equipped you will be to adapt to those changes as they occur. So what should advertisers and marketers start taking note of?

Ad Technology: Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is completely reshaping advertising as we know it, and is now a standard part of an advertising company’s repertoire. So how’s AI going to be different in 2019? For the past couple of years, it has been widely considered a transformative technology on the verge of disrupting every major industry; however, it hasn’t yet been implemented broadly enough to unlock its true value.

That’s all going to change. AI is expected to be widely adopted across the digital ad landscape in 2019, from being the basis for cutting-edge AI-based ad targeting solutions, to building personalized consumer experiences on a daily basis. Advertisers are even using AI in the production process: a recent survey found that almost two-thirds of enterprise marketers expect to use AI in their content marketing strategy this year, mostly to better understand their customers, drive productive and create personalized message

Sound of success

With colourful banner ads and video content competing for eyeballs, it can be easy for advertisers to forget about the power of audio. But as we enter 2019, this programmatic opportunity is becoming harder to ignore. In fact, audio takes up the largest proportion of mobile phone usage, with the average consumer listening for 52 minutes every day. Driven by growing mobile device ownership – and compounded by the rise in streaming radio, podcasts, audiobooks and voice assistants – digital audio is here to stay.

Spotify was an early-mover in offering programmatic audio, and other streaming services are following suit. Growing adoption rates among voice-activated smart home speakers and subscription services lend further momentum to this trend, and as these technologies evolve, so do the opportunities for brands to connect with audiences in new and exciting ways.

This year, digital audio is expected to reach marketplace maturity as an ad medium. If advertisers want to tap into today’s key trends and reach audiences more effectively, they need to consider programmatic audio as part of any well-rounded campaign.

The explosive growth of eCommerce

According to an eMarketer study, the ecommerce sector is estimated to experience double-digit growth until 2021, with sales expected to exceed $4 trillion by 2010. Few industries can boast such an illustrious future, and businesses need to initiate innovative changes to take advantage of the ecommerce boom, or risk falling behind.

In particular, expanding middle class populations, extensive mobile and internet penetration as well as improving logistics and infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific  has led to it becoming the world’s largest retail ecommerce market, with sales expected to reach $2.725 trillion by 2020.

A surge in video content, personalized ads, advanced filtering and immersive digital experiences are just a few of the changes in ecommerce that will affect the advertising industry over the next few years. The potential here is massive, and if implemented correctly, can completely change how users interact with advertisements altogether.

Everything is now on-the-go (OTG)

Less than 50 years ago, mobile phones didn’t exist. But today, it’s near impossible to imagine life without one. In fact, an estimated 84% of people can’t go a single day without their phones! We use them on a daily basis for communicating, navigating and even shopping, dubbed mCommerce.

The Asia Pacific region is leading the drive for mCommerce, with India, Thailand and Indonesia having the highest mobile wallet adoption rates. Mobile payments in China alone dwarfed those in the U.S. by more than 25,000% over a recent 10-month period, with USD 12.8 trillion changing hands in China compared to only USD 49.3 billion in the U.S. The rate of adoption across sectors such as retail, financial and on-demand services –from food delivery to ride sharing – has played a crucial role in this rapid growth.

Before, it was mobile phones that drove more online screen time. But now the human behaviour of doing everything while on the go is driving mobile phones sales.

Less ads, more storytelling

A 2015 report by Nielsen found that respondents trusted recommendations from people they know the most. This was followed by branded websites, editorial content, such as newspaper articles, and consumer opinions posted online. By comparison, obvious advertisements trailed behind in the list of advertising format that people trusted.

As part of an effort to increase trust and authenticity, brands are starting to work with micro-influencers as opposed to social media personalities with larger followings. Micro-influencers appear more relatable, engaging and reliable to their audience, and tends to be more knowledgeable or have followers more suited to a brand’s particular niche.

In addition, content has to be relevant. It might sound like common sense but it’s easy for brands to forget that the story they tell won’t be hugely exciting for everyone. Our experience has shown that brands needs to be smart with their storytelling or risk getting lost amongst the clutter.

With this in mind, advertisers are adapting by creating content that consumers enjoy. Short, 6-second video ads and longer interactive ads that can’t be skipped tend to have higher rates of interaction from consumers. A new type of ad has also emerged in China to play during breaks of online TV dramas. These ads utilize the TV shows’ original content and narrative arcs, and feature the same actors in their on-screen costumes, piquing the audience’s interest by making the ad almost indistinguishable from the original content. This type of advertising was projected to surpass 2 billion yuan (US$311 million) in sales revenue this year alone, and we predict this figure will only continue to grow over the next year.

The establishment of the outcome media economy

A recent report looking into digital marketers’ top media investment priorities for the next 12-24 months found that 86% of respondents around the world expect to increase their investment in outcome-driven media over this period. The term ‘outcome-driven media’ refers to planning and optimizing campaigns against KPIs – often tailor-made for an advertiser or campaign – that are much more closely aligned to the marketer’s ultimate marketing and business goals.

While results showed some variation across regions, industries, and level of digital media investment, there is a clear trend that marketers across the globe are united in their desire to continuously improve and the way that they measure the value of their efforts.

Anyone tasked with growing a brand’s exposure needs to be able to confidently address growing media complexity and understand the impact of campaigns on business results. So it’s no surprise that marketers in our day and age hunger for new ways to measure their efforts and demonstrate the real effect their media placements have on their company’s bottom line.

In conclusion

As with any industry, advertising isn’t perfect, and it will never be. But the future of advertising is bright. As advertisers become more familiar with the full potential of AI and mobile, they will deliver more personalized experiences to consumers, as well as improved results and more sophisticated insights to clients. And as advertisers start to tap into greater creativity, brands will find it easier to draw genuine interest and build closer connections with consumers.

These are my top trends to look out for as you think about your advertising or marketing strategy for the upcoming year. While there’s no magic formula to building the perfect advertising strategy, paying attention to these six areas will help you stay ahead of the pack.

Source: https://www.marketing-interactive.com/6-ad-trends-you-need-to-know/

Good Life Networks $GOOD.ca – Top 10 Tech Trends in Digital Marketing in 2019 #adtech $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:57 PM on Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
SPONSOR: Good Life Networks (GOOD:TSX-V) Video advertising is the future! Company’s A.I. makes 80,000 calculations / second, targeting 750 million users to deliver higher prices and volume. Company announced combined trailing 12 month revenue at just over $40 Million, $7.9M EBITDA, $3 Million net income. Click here for more information.
GOOD: TSX-V

—————————

Top 10 Tech Trends in Digital Marketing in 2019

  • Going shopping is always exciting, especially when somebody else is paying. But in every other occasion your cost should be reasonably calculated, and each saving will be highly appreciated.
  • Therefore, act like a pro with programmatic advertising, which will make your campaigns more cost-effective.

Published February 7th, 2019 – 08:56 GMT via SyndiGate.info

Artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots rank among the top 10 trends in digital marketing this year, said an industry expert, noting that the trends will help one be ready for challenges awaiting one’s business in 2019.

1. Artificial Intelligence

With everybody talking about AI, don’t be afraid AI will take over the world. But for sure it may have significant impact on your business sooner or later. Mechanisms will be helpful in analyzing your consumers’ behaviour and their search patterns. Making the most out of it, utilizing data from social media platforms and blog posts, you’ll be able to track customer journey and understand how your users and are looking for desired products and services. All this may lead straightforward to better understanding of your customers (by 30 per cent) and more effective performance of your content (15 per cent).

2. Chatbots

This AI-based technology can be considered as your virtual concierge, instantly communicating with your users and assisting in completing their goals with immediate answers, messaging in real-time, 24/7 chat. As research shows 90 per cent of their answers are correct, their quality and detailed approach are highly appreciated. Allowing for multi-channel consistency and knowledge centralization, they are getting more and more appreciated, especially in the Gulf region, where not everybody can understand your Call Center employees. No wonder they are becoming so popular. With 1.4 billion people interacting with chatbots worldwide, 80 per cent of savvy businesses are already using or plan to use chatbots by 2020. And by 2022, chatbots will help businesses save over $8 billion per annum, especially in the banking and healthcare industries. Adding up to it the fact, that companies using such solution are perceived as innovative, it’s a simple must have of the season.

3. Programmatic Advertising

Going shopping is always exciting, especially when somebody else is paying. But in every other occasion your cost should be reasonably calculated, and each saving will be highly appreciated. Therefore, act like a pro with programmatic advertising, which will make your campaigns more cost-effective. An automated bidding on advertising inventory in real time is a perfect opportunity to show an ad to a specific customer and in desired context. Nowadays 84 per cent of brands and marketing agencies buy display advertisement in such manner and almost two thirds do the same for their mobile campaigns. With reduced budgets and impressions wastage decreased by 30 per cent, it ensures operational efficiency as well, both from buyers’ and sellers’ perspective. No wonder, with increased targeting effectiveness up to 85 per cent indicated by ad agencies, programmatic marketing will be the best supporter in planning your marketing budget for 2019.

4. Voice search

Consumers appreciate now everything that makes their life easier, faster, hassle-free and enables data to be accessed on the go. Voice search is not about recalling the spirit of Christmas (with Kevin home alone campaign by Google) or showcasing amazing capacity of Google Duplex, presented by Sundar Pichai, booking a hairdresser appointment. It is about ease of making hands-free call, asking for directions, playing favourite song or checking for movie timings. Consumers consider it as quicker and easier, than going to a website or using app, while driving car making or simple “more fun” than other search methods. Worth considering is fact, that voice recognition devices really do matter in paid search and SEO. In US itself huge increase of solution adopters of voice enabled assistant devices is visible. Trending with 48 per cent annual growth increase in US, voice shopping will rise there to $40 billion per year in the next four years, as consumers warm up to making offscreen purchases. Have in mind, that 50 per cent of all searches will be voice searches by the year 2020. On the top of it – use of voice search can have few more advantages for your company – from improving your brand image, through being recommended by digital assistants and increasing your local relevance, up to reducing negative signals from your website, like bounce rate.

Read More

All You Need to Know About Blockchain Technology: Infographic
How Could AI Send Us Back to the Stone Age?

5. Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality

With three available technologies: AR (Augmented Reality, enhancing physical objects with digital content), VR (Virtual Reality – completely simulated virtual 3D environment) and MR (Mixed Reality – combining the two by creating VR environment in which physically existing objects take part) are estimated to grow into a $95 billion market by 2025. The strongest demand for technology comes from creative economy industries: gaming, live events, video entertainment and retail, but wider applications in healthcare, education, the military and real estate are predicted over time. With very positive adoption rate (96 per cent in UK!) are very likely to become the third solid way in which people choose to shop. So-called Vcommerce (Virtual Commerce) will add value as supportive technology, defining true omnichannel experience. Seems like this solution is going to bring the trust gap of potential online shoppers – allowing almost to touch and feel products and subsequently build trust with the retailer. Therefore, apart from immersive experience of VR, supporting positive interaction with the brand and used for advertising purpose, research today opportunity of practical applications like virtual changing room (how useful for clothes, glasses, watches, right?) or digital assistants (make up, furniture fitting). Yes – future is here, now and you should not definitely miss it.

6. Content marketing & Personalization

Seth Godin said that nowadays marketing is not about tuff that you make, but about the stories you tell. Indeed, we don’t buy anymore simple good or service, but go for brand promise and overall experience assured by storytelling. With words of Jay Baer – content is a fire; social media is gasoline. Therefore, content understood from perspective of superb copywriting, supported with great pictures, create only a basis for a tasty meal. The latter is going to be seasoned with proper spices: tailored-made offers supported with customized message. All combined with personalized emails, remarketing and improving techniques in measuring content effectiveness, will keep content marketing relevant and moving forward, triggering purchase motivations into desired action.

7. Video & video live

Talking about content, another valid point needs to be taken into consideration – video (especially YouTube) as an essential for your company and Live Video as another important thing and “must have” of the season. It doesn’t mean Facebook videos are out of the picture. Just the opposite. Consider there your presence with live broadcast along with Instagram (especially if your target audience are youngsters in the Middle East) or LinkedIn. Video, unlike standard display ad, allows you to interact more with your audience – with importance of storytelling, creating tension, involving more senses. If you still are not fully convinced, let these numbers speak for you: 70 per cent of consumers say that they have shared a brand’s video and 52 per cent of consumers admitted, that watching product videos makes them more confident in online purchase decisions. But video is not for B2C only! 72 per cent of businesses claim video has improved their conversion rate, 65 per cent of executives visit the marketer’s website and 39 per cent call a vendor after viewing a video. I guess these numbers show the importance of incorporating video into your digital marketing strategy in 2019, right?

8. Micro-moments

With modern customers’ attention span of a goldfish (3 seconds only!) are you often racking your brain for a catchy content, that will literally nail them down? It is time to shift your approach and instead of chasing them, simply do your job well and be ready for micro-moments. This concept, discovered by Google, is nowadays gaining importance. Each micro-moment is an intent-rich moment, when a person turns to a device to act on a need, driven by purchase, activity, location or knowledge lack. These four game-changing moments really matter for your business and the simple three things you need to do is to be there, be useful and be accountable. How it works? Imagine – she saw beautiful orange heels; he needs to repair a device; finding cooking too challenging they decide to go out; kids are doing their homework and need some guidance. Sounds familiar? To help all of them, simply in your digital footprint provide seamless experience relevant to consumer’s’ needs of the moment, anticipate these moments and create relevant insights across all channels. You may be surprised how often people may need your services, products or guidance, asking simple “how to” or expressing “I wish “ as their desire. Remember, early bird catches the worm!

9. Zero-party data economy

2018 could be named after “year of trust lack”. Unfortunately, after Cambridge Analytica scandal and Mark Zuckerberg called for hearing, introduction of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) became another important threshold, starting new age of privacy. With marketers crying and weaning themselves off third-party data sets, a new day is dawning, with the shift to zero-party data. It is all the information intentionally shared by customer and never inferred. You can consider as such for example customers’ purchase intentions, filled preferences profiles, simply driven by willingness of improved personalization for products and services. Seems like this year will be marked with chase for privacy demand, supported at the same time with multiple requests to enable zero-party data driven offers.

10. Cyber threats and data privacy management

We’ve already touch the base with GDPR regulation, necessitate unambiguous consent for data collection and compelling companies to erase individual data on request, with the threat of a fine of up to 4 per cent of their global annual turnover for breaches. No more cookies, data verification, database gathering and sending emails, unless permitted. You think you can sleep safe, as it only concerns EU? Not really. If you are UAE based company operating in Europe, having European customers, or simply advertising online to Europeans, you need to. But this shift means much more. Consumers are more aware of their rights, and it is always better to prevent, than cure. On the top of that one, you need to have in mind two trends. First is social media oversharing, second – too much rush, while working on digital transformation. Both may lead to data breach and negative consequences for your brand, therefore sensitizing your customers and working on enhanced awareness is advised.

Forrest Gump said “life is like a box of chocolate. You never know, what you’re gonna get.” According to it, you may not predict the future, but for sure these trends will help you to be ready for challenges awaiting your business in 2019.

Source: https://www.albawaba.com/business/top-10-tech-trends-digital-marketing-2019-1249368

Good Life Networks $GOOD.ca – How #Blockchain Integration Will Evolve #Programmatic RTB for Smart TV $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:23 PM on Thursday, February 7th, 2019
SPONSOR: Good Life Networks (GOOD:TSX-V) Video advertising is the future! Company’s A.I. makes 80,000 calculations / second, targeting 750 million users to deliver higher prices and volume. Company announced combined trailing 12 month revenue at just over $40 Million, $7.9M EBITDA, $3 Million net income. Click here for more information.
GOOD: TSX-V

—————————

How Blockchain Integration Will Evolve Programmatic RTB for Smart TV

  • Programmatic RTB(Real-time bidding) is set to become a leading method for advertising on Smart TV.
  • The global Smart TV market, according to Grand View Research, was valued at $145 billion in 2017,
  • Is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 9.5% during the forecast period and reach $292.55 billion by 2025.

Alex Bornyakov, founder of Adtelligent, talks about how the growth of blockchain will help in the transformation of programmatic advertising through RTB for Smart TV.

The programmatic advertising industry is rife with issues, including fraud, manipulation of data, low traffic quality, and lack of transparency of the bidding process. Despite these issues, programmatic RTB(Real-time bidding) is set to become a leading method for advertising on Smart TV. The global Smart TV market, according to Grand View Research, was valued at $145 billion in 2017, is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 9.5% during the forecast period and reach $292.55 billion by 2025.

I, along with other leaders in the digital advertising space, believe that blockchain integration has the potential to satisfy the market demand for transparency and reinstate trust in programmatic advertising. This will be achieved by creating a new blockchain-based RTB protocol for Smart TV that propels industry growth, meets required thresholds for transaction speeds, and fights fraud through irrefutable smart contracts.

Big potential for industry growth

Programmatic and RTB have had a tremendous impact on the web, becoming the most popular and widely-used types of digital display advertising in the USA and the UK in 2015. In the US alone, $27.47 billion was spent on programmatic digital display advertising just last year.

Programmatic RTB for Smart TV has the potential to scale into an increasingly valuable ad channel. 32% of TV buyers today own Smart TVs, totalling 1 billion devices worldwide. Yet, this form of advertising has several new roadblocks when it comes to growth. One such example is the current low availability of premium inventory. Publishers today have to adapt quickly to the latest media buying trend if they want to remain on board.

Blockchain removes intermediaries, meaning that brands and content owners can directly transact with one another. Content owners, as a result, are faced with fewer restrictions and will be able to attract with smaller and niche brands of all shapes and sizes. Due to the nature of P2P transactions through blockchain and less funds going to middlemen, brands will have the opportunity to place targeted advertisements at lower costs than ever before. With all transactions recorded on an irrefutable ledger, blockchain ensures marketing budgets are used effectively, another compelling impetus to advertise and for industry growth.

A need for speed

One of the central issues with executing blockchain RTB for Smart TV today is transaction speed. A system does not yet exist that allows large enough volumes. This inhibits the potential for advertisers.

What’s needed is a new protocol that can handle sending sufficient volumes of data to the blockchain.. With transaction volumes up to speed, brands will be able to optimize their costs, better target clients, and choose the time and amount of advertising scrolling at suitable prices. In turn, enabling brands to not only pay for the number of scrolls, but also the displayed duration which cannot be done today. As an example, this approach would allow advertising at a time when a television is being viewed across many devices, increasing audience coverage and the overall effectiveness of advertising.

Enforcing safeguards to fight fraud

Trust is eroding in the ecosystem for a number of reasons. For one, ad fraud is alive and well across OTT channels, typically in the format of masking n techniques that go undetected. In fact, Pixalate, the first MRC accredited vendor of detecting and filtering invalid traffic in OTT, reported that global OTT fraud rates average 19% and that Marketers may lose $10 billion annually in OTT ad spend by 2020.

Due to the aforementioned issues, advertisers are demanding transparency from partners to ensure fair value. Blockchain integration would allow brands to control pricing and manipulation of data, ensure transparency of the bidding process, target users at the right time through access to user data via blockchain smart contracts.

Today, there are a few major players working to make RTB for Smart TV a reality.

In September 2017, The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Technology Lab announced version 3.0 of their OpenRTB framework which was, “evolving to handle new kinds of programmatic buying and selling, such as header bidding, content sales, product recommendations, Smart TV, or perhaps even products.” It was the biggest revision to the protocol in seven years and has recently been rolled out in beta, with mass adoption projected for 2019.

Such innovative types of the business models which combine B2B marketplaces and blockchain technology has created a new system that allows accumulating a large volume of events, and after that sends this data to blockchain in one package. In other words, it’s not necessary for B2B advertising marketplace to save each transaction from RTB to the blockchain due to the fact that customers of such type of platforms will use an independent verification accounting system that will be able to benefit from internal RTB. Not all data will be saved into blockchain, but only critical resulting events such as division of profits among participants.

Integrating blockchain technology into the RTB system for Smart TV shows promise for growth of the advertisement industry and the elimination of fraud and lack of transparency. By eliminating intermediaries and introducing smart contracts to the platform, brands large and small have more opportunity to be profitable and are granted access to accurate analytics and data.

Source; https://www.martechadvisor.com/articles/ads/how-blockchain-integration-will-evolve-programmatic-rtb-for-smart-tv/

Good Life Networks $GOOD.ca – 2018 recap: What drove the programmatic advertising journey? $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 12:16 PM on Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
SPONSOR: Good Life Networks (GOOD:TSX-V) Video advertising is the future! Company’s A.I. makes 80,000 calculations / second, targeting 750 million users to deliver higher prices and volume. Company announced combined trailing 12 month revenue at just over $40 Million, $7.9M EBITDA, $3 Million net income. Click here for more information.
GOOD: TSX-V

—————————

2018 recap: What drove the programmatic advertising journey?

  • Programmatic ad spending is rising firmly, with $70bn spent in 2018 alone. 
  • Last 12 months saw the emergence of new trends and major transparency initiatives driving the market.

GDPR has been the most prominent digital privacy & security law around the globe last year. It initiated a major change in data privacy and created a significant impact on mobile app usage & development process. The fundamental question that GDPR asks is – what information publishers and advertisers are requesting from their customers, re-assess what they do with that information and how that information is stored. There has been also concern regarding usage of users’ data without their permission. This can improve the overall experience of users when they visit any app/website if they understand what is going on in the background and how their personal data is being utilized. But has GDPR made the impact it was expected to? Executives from companies like Mozilla and MacDonald feel that GDPR has been a bit of a mixed bag. There haven’t been big fines levied yet. But it is expected that if 2018 is the year of implementation, 2019 will be the year of enforcement.

In-App Ads.txt

Transparency had been and will be the key focus in programmatic advertising. With more and more users moving towards in-app content consumption, the industry has been demanding a transparent framework. The IAB Tech Lab released app-ads.txt specification in beta, the app guidance that can increase the pool of authorized digital advertising inventory while reducing fraud. App-ads.txt is an extension of the original ads.txt standard which was only available for web inventory. App-ads.txt works in a similar way but relies on the app store’s web-page of a given app to find the legitimate publisher’s website/domain. There’s a clear monetary benefit for app owners to adopt App-ads.txt with the same enthusiasm as their web counterparts. When app publishers post an Ads.txt file they usually see an uptick in revenue, because bad actors can no longer easily spoof their inventory.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence made its way into the digital advertising world. Ad tech is increasing the use of AI and machine learning to determine which impressions have the highest winning probability, thus reducing the infrastructure cost and improving the overall auction process. AI also promises to unlock new understanding of users’ behavior. It opens the possibility to reach audiences by creating powerful semantic targeting, providing a wealth of contextual data that examines not just what a publisher is writing about, but why. This helps marketers do the heavy lifting as they see fewer wasted impressions with ads that are more targeted and focused, leading to better campaign results.

Blockchain

Transparency concerns gave birth to an incredible technology –‘Blockchain’ – in digital advertising. Blockchain promises to optimize the media spend. With the implementation of the blockchain, it is estimated that the likelihood and ability to commit ad fraud would most likely lower, making the potential savings in ad dollars a huge benefit for both advertisers and publishers. When it comes to advertisers, blockchain technology could be used when ad platforms run ads and payout DSPs, exchanges and publishers. Since blockchain’s underlying technology makes it too difficult to hack, advertisers could have a process that is not only more secure for paying out publishers of their ads, but also could make fraudulent traffic less likely.

As we step into 2019, Programmatic advertising brings a set of challenges as well as opens door to a flurry of opportunities for agencies, publishers and ad tech providers. Hence all stakeholders in this ecosystem need to navigate together in order to create a truly successful habitat for programmatic advertising to grow faster.About the Author

Abhay loves to explore and work on latest technologies, building and designing cutting edge ad tech solutions. He has good knowledge and experience of IAB standards like OpenRTB protocol, VAST, VAPAID and MRAID. Rewrote and redesigned Chocolate exchange in GO Lang, achieved better performance and cost-effectiveness.

Source: http://www.adotas.com/2019/01/2018-recap-drove-programmatic-advertising-journey/

Good Life Networks Inc. $GOOD.ca Announces Combined Trailing 12 Month Revenue at just over $40 Million $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:38 AM on Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
  • Trailing twelve months (TTM) consolidated proforma revenue for GLN, 495 Communications and ImpressionX was $40.2M,
  • EBITDA of $7.9M and a Net Income of just over $3M based on management prepared financial statements (October 1st, 2017 to September 30th, 2018).

VANCOUVER, Jan. 29, 2019 - Good Life Networks Inc. (“GLN“, or the “Company“) (TSXV: GOOD) (FSE: 4G5), a programmatic advertising technology company, today announced an update to its recent acquisition of 495 Communications and ImpressionX.

GLN has completed the operational integration of the ImpressionX business into GLN operations, and expects the completion of 495 Communications integration into GLN operations by the third week of February.

Trailing twelve months (TTM) consolidated proforma revenue for GLN, 495 Communications and ImpressionX was $40.2M, with EBITDA of $7.9M and a Net Income of just over $3M based on management prepared financial statements (October 1st, 2017 to September 30th, 2018).

“495 Communications and ImpressionX are an exceptional continuation of our acquisition strategy and represent a key executional objective for FY2018. These two acquisitions bring GLN strong revenue and exciting relationships with marquee publishers and brands that will help us achieve our current and future growth targets,” stated GLN CEO Jesse Dylan.

CEO Jesse Dylan will be a guest speaker today at 1:50pm (Paradigm stage) during the Cantech Investment Conference taking place at the Metro Toronto Convention center. We would like to invite everyone attending the convention today and tomorrow to visit our team at the GLN booth (#520).

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

The GLN Story
GLN’s technology is the engine that sits between advertisers and publishers. The GLN Platform is built for cross device video advertising: Mobile, In-App, Desktop and CTV (Connected Television). The Programmatic Video Marketing Platform is powered by GLN’s Patent Pending proprietary machine learning technology that targets and connects digital advertisers with consumers three times faster than industry standards, with among the lowest fraud rates of similar venders without collecting PII (Personal Identifiable Information). Advertisers make more money by reaching their target audience more effectively. GLN makes money by retaining a percentage of the advertiser’s fee.

GLN is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with offices in Newport Beach and Santa Monica California, New York and UK and trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the stock symbol “GOOD” and The Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the stock symbol 4G5.  

Addressable Market: Programmatic trading of digital ads continues to rise with 65% of all ad expenditure in 2019 being traded programmatically. Advertisers are projected to spend $84 billion programmatically this year, up from $70 billion in 2018. By 2020 the programmatic ad spend is expected to reach $100 billion according to Zenith Media’s latest Programmatic Marketing Forecasts.

Forward Looking Statements:
Forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect the expectations or beliefs regarding future events of management of GLN. This information and these statements, referred to herein as “forward‐looking statements”, are not historical facts, are made as of the date of this news release and include without limitation, statements regarding discussions of future plans, estimates and forecasts and statements as to management’s expectations and intentions with respect to the performance of the company. These statements generally can be identified by use of forward-looking words such as “may”, “will”, “expect”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “intends”, “believe” or “continue” or the negative thereof or similar variations. These forward‐looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties and actual results might differ materially from results suggested in any forward-looking statements. Important factors that may cause actual results to vary include without limitation, risks relating to the digital advertising industry and general economic conditions, success of acquisitions and any growth strategies implemented by the company.  In making the forward‐looking statements in this news release, the Company has applied several material assumptions, including without limitation that any acquisitions and corporate directives and initiatives will be successfully completed in the time expected by management and produce the desired results, generate the anticipated revenue and expand GLN’s global reach per management’s expectations. GLN does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those reflected in the forward looking-statements, other than as required by applicable securities laws. Additional information identifying risks and uncertainties is contained in GLN’s filings with the Canadian securities regulators, which filings are available at www.sedar.com.

SOURCE Good Life Networks Inc.

View original content to download multimedia: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2019/29/c9442.html

[email protected]; CEO Jesse Dylan, 604 265 7511Copyright CNW Group 2019

Good Life Networks Inc. $GOOD.ca Announces CEO Jesse Dylan to Speak at Cantech Convention In Toronto

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:32 AM on Thursday, January 24th, 2019
  • Announced that CEO Jesse Dylan will speak at the upcoming Cantech Conference in Toronto
  • The Cantech Investment Conference takes place January 29th and 30th at the Metro Toronto Convention center, where CEO Jesse Dylan will be a guest speaker.

VANCOUVER, Jan. 24, 2019 – Good Life Networks Inc. (“GLN“, or the “Company“) (TSXV: GOOD) (FSE: 4G5), a programmatic advertising technology company, today announced that CEO Jesse Dylan will speak at the upcoming Cantech Conference in Toronto.

“I’m looking forward to sharing the GLN success story, our leadership role in digital technology, and our strategy for the future with current and prospective investors at the Cantech Conference,” stated CEO Jesse Dylan.

The Cantech Investment Conference takes place January 29th and 30th at the Metro Toronto Convention center, where CEO Jesse Dylan will be a guest speaker. You can join him for his presentation on Tuesday 29th at 1:50 pm on the Paradigm stage.  We would also like to invite everyone attending the convention to visit us at the GLN booth on both days (Booth 520).

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

The GLN Story
GLN’s technology is the engine that sits between advertisers and publishers. The GLN Platform is built for cross device video advertising: Mobile, In-App, Desktop and CTV (Connected Television). The Programmatic Video Marketing Platform is powered by GLN’s Patent Pending proprietary machine learning technology that targets and connects digital advertisers with consumers three times faster than industry standards, with among the lowest fraud rates of similar venders without collecting PII (Personal Identifiable Information).

The Programmatic Video Technology Platform features integrations at the server level with both Publishers and Advertisers. Our technology quickly finds the most valuable advertisement for every consumer. Publishers make more money through improved CPM (advertising fill rate) combined with a more engaged consumer experience. Advertisers make more money by reaching their target audience more effectively. GLN makes money by retaining a percentage of the advertiser’s fee.

GLN is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with offices in Newport Beach and Santa Monica California, New York and UK and trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the stock symbol “GOOD” and The Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the stock symbol 4G5.  

Addressable Market: Programmatic trading of digital ads continues to rise with 65% of all ad expenditure in 2019 being traded programmatically. This year, advertisers are projected to spend $84 billion programmatically, up from $70 billion in 2018, representing 62% of digital media expenditure according to Zenith Media’s latest Programmatic Marketing Forecasts.

Forward Looking Statements:
Forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect the expectations or beliefs regarding future events of management of GLN. This information and these statements, referred to herein as “forward‐looking statements”, are not historical facts, are made as of the date of this news release and include without limitation, statements regarding discussions of future plans, estimates and forecasts and statements as to management’s expectations and intentions with respect to the performance of the company. These statements generally can be identified by use of forward-looking words such as “may”, “will”, “expect”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “intends”, “believe” or “continue” or the negative thereof or similar variations. These forward‐looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties and actual results might differ materially from results suggested in any forward-looking statements. Important factors that may cause actual results to vary include without limitation, risks relating to the digital advertising industry and general economic conditions, success of acquisitions and any growth strategies implemented by the company.  In making the forward‐looking statements in this news release, the Company has applied several material assumptions, including without limitation that any acquisitions and corporate directives and initiatives will be successfully completed in the time expected by management and produce the desired results, generate the anticipated revenue and expand GLN’s global reach per management’s expectations. GLN does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those reflected in the forward looking-statements, other than as required by applicable securities laws. Additional information identifying risks and uncertainties is contained in GLN’s filings with the Canadian securities regulators, which filings are available at www.sedar.com.

SOURCE Good Life Networks Inc.

View original content to download multimedia: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2019/24/c2510.html

Good Life Networks $GOOD.ca – Top 5 Trends Ad Intelligence to Look Forward in 2019 $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 11:32 AM on Monday, January 21st, 2019
SPONSOR: Good Life Networks (GOOD:TSX-V) Video advertising is the future! Company’s A.I. makes 80,000 calculations / second, targeting 750 million users to deliver higher prices and volume. Revenue was $10,000,650 for the nine months ended September 30th, 2018, a 142% increase from $4,133,231 reported for the six months ended September 30th, 2017.  Click here for more information.
GOOD: TSX-V

—————————

Top 5 Trends Ad Intelligence to Look Forward in 2019

Programmatic Advertising Trend:

Is 2019 the year that could change the face of digital advertising? YES!! If we believe eMarketers, programmatic trading makes up 80 per cent of all digital display advertising and it has been predicted to increase to up to 95 per cent by 2020. It has and continues to, completely transformed the digital display advertising space with continuous inventions in advanced technology, which projected to represent over â…”rd of all digital ad spend worldwide in 2019.Throughout 2018, few trends such as blockchain, influence marketing, native advertising, and user-generated content trends were as widely talked about – and lift up – as ML and AI. In the realm of Ad Intelligence growth, we expect that to continue to be the case throughout 2019.

Sumit Ghosh, Contributor Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

You’re reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media.

In terms of improving the overall effectiveness of targeted advertising, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) holds a lot of promise. Earlier this year, we have already seen the effectiveness and popularity of machine learning systems and AI-based chatbots and how social media giants like Facebook, Instagram uses Intelligence algorithm to improve the results of ad campaigns. But what’s next? How can Intelligence further boost the success for business in 2019? We believe, it’ll become even bigger trends with mobile in-app advertiser campaigns in 2019.

In 2019, here are 5 trends Ad Intelligence, which will help maximize lift and improve ad performance across the sector.

Mobile In-App ad Creative Trend:

What can advertisers do to make sure their Ad spends return real values? Is there a better way?

In 2019, AI and ML can go a long way to make in-app ad creatives better for any targeted audience. By applying extensive historical performance data and advanced computer vision algorithms brands can determine more precise ad creatives that worked well in the past and predicts what kinds of creatives will perform better in near future.

It can also help brands to get a better sense of how their target audience reacts to different Ad-creatives under different scenarios. As an example, it’s possible that advertisements that feature celebrities perform better or particular fonts, colours, and imagery can boost the overall ad campaign results.

In addition, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Language (ML) algorithms in conjunction with location data can help brands improve the creativeness and effectiveness of local campaigns.

In accordance with eMarketers, brands and their marketing partners are expected to spend more than $77 billion in the U.S. alone in 2019. However, ensuring potential benefits of using advanced AI and ML application in advertising can be sure to provide better creative results which are optimized for success and deploy quality results for the business.

Ad-Supported OTT Trend:

Over the past couple of months, the business of digital advertising has been changed. Marketers are trying to increase the mobile audience of their content, lift their monetization game and better leverage the opportunity that newest trend brings.

In 2019, we expect brands and advertising partners could see that critical mass of viewers will watch Ad Supported OTT (Over The Top) video. And Brands that don’t participate in Ad supported OTT will surely miss out the unforeseen heights of viewers for their Ad campaigns.

As per the reports, 73per cent of viewers who regularly streamed videos have more focus to watch ad-supported OTT, and out of them, 45per cent of viewers watched Ad supported OTT the most. Over the 52per cent of OTT, viewers are cord shavers or cord cutters. In continuation, why ad-supported OTT viewers cut or shave the cord, 38per cent better content on streaming services,42per cent cite “flexibility/convenience” and 77per cent point to cost.

Here a Few Key Potential Benefits offered by Ad Supported OTT to the Brands and Their Advertising Partners –

  • Improved ability to reach a large and distinct audience across geographies and ages who have been a struggle to reach via traditional routes like radio or television advertising.
  • Increased number of audience to follow social media influencers with Ad supported OTT.
  • The largest amount of viewers are 18 to 34 age groups with incomes exceeding $75,000 a year.
  • A key opportunity to monetize valuable insight into the audience, such as viewing habits and behaviours.
  • Another key opportunity for brands and their advertising partners is combining influencer marketing with OTT video ad campaigns as ASV OTT viewers are more likely to follow digital media influencers.
  • Viewers on Ad supported OTT complete 98per cent of ads, this is 12per cent higher than ad completion on smartphones and 14per cent higher than ad completion on the desktop.

Mobile Data Monetization Trend:

In 2019, all possible business models will hinge on the increasing revenue opportunity given by all data types, especially the case in advertising, with brands. And if they don’t take a smarter approach to data management and data usage, then Ad campaigns will be going to fall flat in 2019. Considering a lot of business can reduce cost and grow revenue if companies monetize their data and use in day-to-day operations.

Why Mobile Data Monetization Trend is Prevalent in Marketing and Advertising?

Monetizing the data to greater degrees in prevalent for every possible business venture today, but YES, it’s especially prevalent in marketing and advertising.

In near time, brands gain insights on where the targeted audiences are located, density and flow of targeted audiences, how they spend their time, what they’re interested in, click-stream insights about ad campaigns. These insights can be used to direct activities as varied as customer segmentation, pricing optimization, demand and churn prediction, cost management and, retention marketing — and they can also command even bigger margins when sold externally.

Digital Advertising Transparency Trend:

Over the last few years, programmatic advertising has seen much growth, but there are few issues which have been lying dormant for years now. One of the biggest issues is in regards to Digital Advertising Transparency. In 2019, we expect they will be put into bed.

In 2019, we expect everyone in the digital advertising ecosystem to focus more on accountability, digital advertising transparency and openness throughout the entire blockchain. So what could be the solutions that can solve these issues in this arena?

First of all, advanced technologies designed to increase transparency will come in the front. The recent introduction of Ads.txt for mobile in-app environments and the Open Measurement SDK are only a glimpse of a larger problem here. It would not be surprising to see ad tech-focused blockchain app – which have been long on hype, however short on results so far – really make genuine progress in 2019.

Moreover, media supply chain partnerships will keep on driving these activities forward. While these sorts of transparency-focused arrangements were beginning to make genuine progress in 2018, siloed approaches and walled gardens still governed the roost in 2018. In 2019, expect cross-organizational transparency and openness to be the standard.

Furthermore, last yet surely not least, all digital advertisers will progressively put their money where their mouth is as far as prioritizing trust and transparency. For a really long time, the industry has paid lip service to these issues while still enabling issues to go crazy. That will end in the new year.

Do you think the biggest issues cited by brand and their advertisers throughout both 2017 and 2018 will be put into a bed in 2019 or they will still pay lip service?

Programmatic Advertising Trend:

Is 2019 the year that could change the face of digital advertising? YES!! If we believe eMarketers, programmatic trading makes up 80 per cent of all digital display advertising and it has been predicted to increase to up to 95 per cent by 2020. It has and continues to, completely transformed the digital display advertising space with continuous inventions in advanced technology, which projected to represent over â…”rd of all digital ad spend worldwide in 2019.Throughout 2018, few trends such as blockchain, influence marketing, native advertising, and user-generated content trends were as widely talked about – and lift up – as ML and AI. In the realm of Ad Intelligence growth, we expect that to continue to be the case throughout 2019.

Source: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/326640