ADVERTISER PLATFORMS
Adform | September 27, 2022
Adform, the only global, independent, and fully integrated advertising platform built for modern marketing, announce a significant expansion of its UK team with the appointment of four new team members: Julien Sneeuwjagt – enterprise sales director; Allan Sheriff – global account director; David Lionel – sales account development manager; and Milica Lukic – account director.
Adform’s London office has grown to a team of 30 since it was established nearly 10 years ago and mirrors the growth the company is experiencing globally.
Established in Denmark in 2002, Adform now has offices in Europe, Africa, North America, Asia, and Australia, and a team of more than 650 employees, serving more than 2,000 clients and supporting over 25,000 accounts. Adform’s solutions include the full spectrum of ad tech capabilities: demand side platform, supply side platform, ad server and data management platform for advertisers and publishers, and a world-leading, award-winning identity solution.
Its Adform Flow platform enables seamless management of the whole advertising campaign lifecycle across all digital channels, enabling frictionless cross-media activation and giving clients unprecedented control. A leader in the identity space, its ID Fusion solution enables marketers to deploy campaigns based on first-party IDs alongside third-party cookies, enabling marketers to unlock scale with a cookie-less, ID-agnostic approach. Adform helps both advertisers and publishers thrive and evolve towards an advertising ecosystem that is transparent, open and privacy-centric.
In the United Kingdom, Adform works with key global, and independent, advertising agencies as well as direct accounts, serving over 100 clients / accounts in sectors ranging from telecom, financial services, automotive, and retail to FMCG, sports or entertainment.
Julien Sneeuwjagt joins as enterprise sales director and will lead Adform’s UK conversations with new clients in retail and e-commerce, food and beverage, and financial services, as well as independent agencies. He has a 20-year career in sales and marketing, primarily in financial services and ad tech.
Global account director Allan Sheriff will be responsible for Adform’s largest accounts and brings eleven years of programmatic experience with independent trading desks, agency, and client-side.
David Lionel, joining as sales account development manager, will nurture new business and new clients, supporting agencies and advertisers, and helping them engage confidently with Adform’s full stack of ad tech solutions.
Milica Lukic joins as an account director, responsible for Adform’s existing clients, focusing on helping them grow their businesses by leveraging Adform’s platform and products.
Phil Acton, country manager of Adform in the United Kingdom, said, “I’m delighted to welcome our new recruits to Adform. Our growth is being dictated by our clients’ needs, and strengthening our UK team means we are even better placed to deliver seamless ad tech solutions to advertisers and publishers, as the industry experiences major transformation to a more open, fair, and privacy-centric internet.”
Phil Acton, country manager of Adform in the United Kingdom, said, “I’m delighted to welcome our new recruits to Adform. Our growth is being dictated by our clients’ needs, and strengthening our UK team means we are even better placed to deliver seamless ad tech solutions to advertisers and publishers, as the industry experiences major transformation to a more open, fair, and privacy-centric internet.”
About Adform
Adform is the only global, independent and fully integrated advertising platform built for modern marketing. Its unique enterprise technology – Adform FLOW – harnesses superior user experience and a scalable, modular and open architecture, to enable seamless management of the whole campaign lifecycle. It provides clients with enhanced control and transparency across their advertising operations, including ownership of all data from their campaigns. Since 2002, Adform has developed technology to enhance human/machine collaboration and deliver augmented intelligence, thereby amplifying business results for its clients around the world.
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AD NETWORKS
DoubleVerify | September 30, 2022
DoubleVerify (“DV”), (NYSE: DV), a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data and analytics, today announced it is working with Best Buy Ads, the consumer electronic retailer’s in-house retail media network (RMN). Through this work, DV will provide robust measurement tools for both partners of Best Buy Ads and the brand’s own ad campaigns.
“We are excited to work with Best Buy to bring independent, third-party measurement to Best Buy Ads and to Best Buy ad campaigns across the open web,” said Mark Zagorski, CEO at DoubleVerify.
“We are excited to work with Best Buy to bring independent, third-party measurement to Best Buy Ads and to Best Buy ad campaigns across the open web,” said Mark Zagorski, CEO at DoubleVerify. “Our solutions will support Best Buy and its retail media clients, improving overall ad effectiveness, while giving them greater clarity and confidence in their digital investments.”
Retail media is estimated to be a $100 billion opportunity.* A retail media network allows a retailer to give brands access to their customers using the retailer’s key assets: first-party customer data and owned media. With the retailer’s first-party data, brands can reach in-market buyers at the point of purchase, across formats and owned channels.
DV easily integrates directly onto a retailer’s media properties, ensuring advertisers can evaluate if campaigns are viewable, seen by real people, served in a brand-safe environment, safe from fraud and sophisticated invalid traffic (SIVT), and appear in the intended geography.
With today’s announcement, Best Buy advertisers who use DV will have access to pre-campaign activation (DV Authentic Brand Suitability, Fraud/SIVT) and post-bid filtering and measurement (DV Authentic Ad™, DV Video Complete, Programmatic Analytics) across Best Buy Ads. DV will also be used by Best Buy for its own programmatically-executed media buys. DoubleVerify’s Publisher Suite will also be implemented across the Best Buy media platform, providing comprehensive protection and granular controls to the retail media network.
“DoubleVerify’s product advancements and partnerships in the retail media sector are further examples of how we are leading the industry in developing innovative quality and performance solutions for emerging digital platforms,” said Zagorski.
For more information about DoubleVerify, contact sales@DoubleVerify.com.
About DoubleVerify
DoubleVerify is a leading software platform for digital media measurement and analytics. Our mission is to make the digital advertising ecosystem stronger, safer and more secure, thereby preserving the fair value exchange between buyers and sellers of digital media. Hundreds of Fortune 500 advertisers employ our unbiased data and analytics to drive campaign quality and effectiveness, and to maximize return on their digital advertising investments – globally.
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PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING
Zype, TripleLift, Vevo | September 30, 2022
Zype, the leading video API and infrastructure platform, and TripleLift, the advertising technology company reinventing ad placements, today announced an integration that allows joint customers to leverage In-Show advertising within playout streams on connected TV (CTV) platforms.
Customers using Zype’s Playout 2.0 to curate and deliver digital linear programming for OTT platforms can now leverage TripleLift's In-Show solutions to provide unique, non-disruptive, integrated ad experiences within the CTV environment. With these new advertising capabilities, Playout 2.0 users can create dynamic monetization opportunities for brands. These innovative ad placements allow content owners to reduce the number of ad breaks without decreasing revenue per stream, while also ensuring a brand-safe environment for advertisers alongside contextually relevant content.
TripleLift’s In-Show solutions dynamically and seamlessly insert brand assets directly into television programs during the post-production process and can take place days, months or even years after show filming is complete. Using machine learning, TripleLift determines where to insert a branded asset within the content, based on context and audience profile resulting in a better experience for advertisers and viewers, with a 12x increase in brand awareness and a 3.6x increase in audience engagement.
Vevo, the world's leading music video network, recently announced that it is using both Zype and TripleLift’s technology to support overlay ads for brand-building and contextual targeting against expertly curated music video programming on connected TVs.
“At Zype, we’re always looking to work with innovative advertising technology partners that can offer our customers greater opportunities for monetization and an improved streaming experience for the end-user,” said Matt Moore, senior vice president of Product at Zype.
“At Zype, we’re always looking to work with innovative advertising technology partners that can offer our customers greater opportunities for monetization and an improved streaming experience for the end-user,” said Matt Moore, senior vice president of Product at Zype. “TripleLift's technology provides just that, with a focus on greater ad engagement and a better viewer experience, which presents an incredible alignment with our vision.”
TripleLift’s In-Show solutions allow Zype customers using Playout 2.0 to:
Leverage a unique post-production solution for product placement. Identify contextual moments and surface areas to superimpose a brand’s message or product into a show’s content with no disruption to the storytelling.
Create a break in the action by showcasing impactful ad creative. Capture audience attention at optimal moments with a bespoke :06s ad format that scales back video content during natural, narrative breaks.
Reinforce brand messaging without interruption. Enhance the traditional lower-third with a non-disruptive integrated ad experience that is contextually relevant for the brand.
“Streaming TV has changed what viewers expect of their television experience. We know that viewers want a television experience that is more integrated and less interruptive and OTT content publishers need better ways to help brands reach their audiences,” said Michael Shields, general manager, connected TV, TripleLift. “Together with Zype, we’re making it possible for content publishers of all sizes to create and fulfill ad inventory in their linear playout channels through innovative, non-disruptive ad placements that meets viewer expectations and drives better outcomes for advertisers.”
For more on this new integration, please visit www.zype.com.
About Zype
Zype provides infrastructure for digital video, with a cloud-based platform to manage and distribute enterprise-grade video across web, mobile, TV, and social media. Offering both developer-friendly tools such as customizable APIs as well as turnkey solutions for automated app publishing and playout, Zype's SaaS enables video creators, publishers, or distributors to quickly build, launch and manage superior video products at scale. With a wide ecosystem of video connectors and technology partners and an award-winning support team, Zype's customers confidently increase reach, engagement and monetization by delivering premium entertainment experiences. Founded in 2014 and acquired by Backlight™ in 2021, Zype is a privately held company with more than 300 customers worldwide. www.zype.com.
About TripleLift
TripleLift is the advertising technology company reinventing ad placement at the intersection of creative, media and data. Our marketplace serves the world’s leading brands, publishers, streaming companies and demand-side platforms, executing over 1 trillion ad transactions every month. Customers choose us because of our addressable offerings from native to online video to connected television, innovations that insert brands into content in real-time, and supportive experts dedicated to maximizing partner performance. Part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio, TripleLift has appeared on both the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for five consecutive years, has been named to Business Insider’s list of Hottest Ad Tech Companies for three straight years and was awarded Most Innovative TV Advertising Technology by AdExchanger in 2021. Find out how TripleLift is shaping the future of advertising at triplelift.com.
About Vevo
Vevo is the world's leading music video network, connecting an ever-growing global audience to high quality music video content for more than a decade. Founded by Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in 2009, Vevo offers fans worldwide a vast array of premium content to choose from, showcasing official music videos alongside a constantly developing lineup of live performances and innovative original programming. From top superstars to rising new talents, Vevo brings incomparable cross-promotional support to artists across the musical spectrum, at every stage of their careers.
Vevo has consistently evolved over the past decade to lead within today's ever-changing media landscape, embracing partnerships with a number of leading distribution platforms to deliver extraordinary content within ad-supported environments. With more than 25B views across television, desktop and mobile devices each month, Vevo brings music videos to the world – when, where, and how fans want them.
Vevo is available on YouTube, Samsung, Samsung TV Plus, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Echo Show, PlutoTV, Apple TV, Roku, Comcast (Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Flex), VIZIO, Sky (NowTV and SkyQ), Foxxum, XITE, NetRange, Redbox, T-Mobile Play, Virgin Media, Xumo, Telstra, Foxtel, Fetch, Rogers, Shaw, Local Now, Google TV, Android TV, Cox, ViX and Vewd.
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