Mobile channels have become more compelling to the perpetrators of ad fraud, since mobile accounts for an increasing proportion of digital ad spend. But, while there are many strategies and solutions available to mitigate the impacts of ad fraud, separating the capabilities from the spin can be difficult, which is why TrafficGuard provides some thoughts and predictions on ad fraud prevention:

The concept of the customer journey is very demanding, since it requires a consistent orientation to the digital transformation, both in terms of the processes depicted and the organizational structures. Furthermore, a powerful technical foundation is essential, or if the solution is to run in the cloud, the alignment of IT to cloud computing – e.g. with integrated virtualization.

One of the world's leading provider of open source solutions, Red Hat, announced the general availability of Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3, the latest version of its enterprise framework for automating and orchestrating IT operations. It includes an updated user interface, improved scaling and the ability to run Ansible Tower on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes container application platform.

The trending topic in IT, Blockchain, keeps the tech industry currently on its toes, as the distributed, decentralized database of blocks is considered impossible to get hacked: Many different servers verify algorithms for storing and uploading information, besides allowing all users of the network to see all the histories of changes or adjustments to a file or a block. Due to the security of decentralized storage and the elimination of third-party verification of transactions, processes can be automated.

Today’s challenge is no longer the availability of information but its abundance, bringing us the marketing issues we are dealing with now for decades. In all this noise, it is not only harder than ever to be found by customers, making things worse is the fact that the average attention span of today's media users has slipped below that of a goldfish.

WARC, the global authority on advertising and media effectiveness, released Marketer's Toolkit 2019, an annual report outlining companies’ priorities and the challenges brands are facing in the year ahead. The report is centred on a survey of more than 800 senior marketing and advertising professionals from around the world and takes an in-depth look at strategic priorities, technology and media challenges, besides covering interviews with nine leading marketers, as well as examples, best practice guidance and a round-up of what this all means for brands, media owners and agencies.

Navigating a business successfully through the ever-changing digital marketing world is a huge challenge for many decision makers, especially when resources are tight. Co-operations with experienced and competent digital partners are indispensable and the selection of the optimal service provider is crucial for further growth and positioning in the market. A wrong decision can not only quickly blow up the budget, but also damage the brand image. That’s why you should be aware of the most important parameters for a selection.

When it comes to customer-centricity, Customer Journeys are the melting pot of all disciplines and perspectives. Evidently, the enterprise around the customer journey in the daily business routine is initiated and managed by individual departments, such as marketing, sales, IT or service. As a result, despite considerable initial success, the creation of positive customer experiences, or winning of more new customers, often falter due to insufficient internal support of such projects. So, how can that be prevented?

RTB House has adapted its multi-layer brand safety mechanisms to tailor itself for each brand’s policies.

The Coalition for Better Ads announced that it will expand the Better Ads Standards for desktop and mobile web to all countries and regions worldwide to improve the online ad experience for consumers.

Every year, Kantar Millward Brown calculates the brand values of more than 2,000 international brands, which are listed in the global database BrandZ. A recent analysis shows that less than 10% of these brands increased their value between 2014 and 2017.

According to a study of the consulting firm Bain & Company, 80% of CEOs are convinced to offer their customers an excellent Customer Experience (CX), however only 8% of their customers felt the same way, which describes the dilemma.

A new report from Meltwater, titled E-commerce in SEA: Supercharging Holiday Sales Through Social Media, analyzed consumer sentiment during the year-end shopping period last year to help ecommerce companies better reach their audiences.

The Customer Experience (CX) Management - in other words, the measurement and control of customer experiences - becomes a decisive factor in a company's success in times of increasingly competitive market conditions. Traditional measurement methods for customer loyalty and customer behavior, such as the Net Promoter Score or the conversion model, fall far short simply because they neither do all the relevant touchpoints nor sufficiently consider the customer's perspective and expectations. That’s why the IT service provider adesso recommends a more comprehensive approach that takes into account the following parameters: