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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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Teads, IMPACT+ | September 29, 2022
Teads, the global media platform, announces a partnership with IMPACT+, with the purpose of measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of online advertising campaigns run through its platform. This announcement follows a series of tests with brands such as Renault, LaPoste, and Hello bank! at the French Ministry of Justice in France testing the carbon footprint of their advertising campaigns.
The solution has now been introduced across APAC and ANZ exclusively to OMG group and its clients. The goal of this initiative is to create a standard of carbon footprint measurement across Teads’ campaigns, to better support brands and agencies in their CSR approach.
Currently, Teads globally has over 50+ brands that have begun the use of IMPACT+ to measure their campaigns’ carbon footprint. This measurement capability has also gone live with OMG’s top 10 clients in APAC.
Measuring the carbon footprint, a strategic challenge
The environmental impact of online advertising is a young, and complicated topic.
IMPACT+ is the leading third-party measurement provider, who can estimate the carbon footprint of digital communications and bring concrete recommendations on how to set up an environmental KPI. Teads’ new partnership with IMPACT+ allows advertisers to evaluate the greenhouse gas emissions of their Teads’ campaigns.
Leveraging this measurement, brands will now have the ability to minimise the power consumption of each impression served as well as reduce the electricity impact of each media objective, with Teads’ continued investment toward minimising the amount of impressions required to reach the same objective. IMPACT+ currently provides a calculation to report on GHG emissions at the campaign level, which includes creative delivery electricity consumption and the associated greenhouse gas emissions depending on where the delivery took place, as well as the end-user device lifecycle GHG emissions.
Concretely, the considered perimeter implies the necessary electrical consumption to the campaign delivery and the greenhouse gas emissions induced by this consumption. This first step allows then to analyse the campaign parameters impact from the point of view of the equipment’s usage (data centre, network, and devices) that are necessary to the delivery and to recommend optimisation levers. The actual calculation is based on the required energy for hosting advertising creatives, transporting on the network, and using the user’s device displaying these ads.
This approach is part of Teads’ continued ambitions to evolve its platform and maintain its position as a sustainable business. The series of tests will open doors to new thoughts aiming to use this carbon metrics along with traditional media KPIs.
Teads’ ambition in this space is to standardise carbon footprint measurement within the platform and therefore lead the digital marketing industry where reducing the carbon footprint of a campaign, without reducing its effectiveness, is the ultimate goal. The methods in place are new and keen to evolve to consider a larger perimeter, integrating other elements involved in the delivery like use or data, programmatic or third-party integrations for example or also other environmental impacts, beyond carbon emissions. For this reason, the ongoing procedures for the formalisation of an industrywide reference framework are welcome to collectively progress in the subject. The goal is to understand ultimately how to minimise the carbon footprint without compromising media performances and avoid a bounce back effect.
Paul Shepherd, chief investment officer and president of Annalect at OMG APAC says “As brands increasingly focus on reducing their scope 3 emissions, our industry needs to supply solutions that our clients can orchestrate towards their sustainability efforts."
Paul Shepherd, chief investment officer and president of Annalect at OMG APAC says “As brands increasingly focus on reducing their scope 3 emissions, our industry needs to supply solutions that our clients can orchestrate towards their sustainability efforts. At OMG, we collaborate with partners to develop systems and processes to make sustainability accessible for our teams. This supports our drive in ensuring planning and optimising media campaigns for reduced carbon emissions becomes market practice.”
Emmanuel Fischmeister, VP business development at Teads says “We are extremely excited to launch this firsts-of-its-kind partnership with OMG. Having a better understanding of the emissions is only the beginning of the journey, beyond measurement: our goal is to reduce and optimise these emissions. As a sustainable media platform, we are looking to do our part for future proofing the media industry”
About Teads
Teads operates a leading, cloud-based, end-to-end technology platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across a global ecosystem of quality digital media. As an end-to-end solution, Teads’ modular platform allows partners to leverage buy-side, sell-side, creative, data and AI optimization technologies. For advertisers and their agencies, Teads offers a single access point to buy the inventory of many of the world’s best publishers. Through exclusive global media partnerships, Teads enables advertisers and agencies to reach 1.9 billion unique monthly users* in brand safe, responsible advertising environments, while improving the effectiveness and efficiency of digital ad transactions.
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Targetspot, Gadsme | September 16, 2022
Targetplay, a new division of Targetspot (Paris:ALTGS) (Brussels:ALTGS) dedicated to gaming, today announces a new representation partnership with Gadsme, a global premium in-game monetisation platform adopted by major studios including Voodoo, Ubisoft, Tilting Point, TapNation and Lion Studios. Global demand partners from the Targetplay network across the USA, Europe, LATAM and APAC will be able to access Gadsme’s supply side network of mobile games studios at scale.
Guillaume Monteaux, CEO of Gadsme, declared: “We are focused on delivering best in class non-intrusive monetization solutions to our gaming community and our elegant and unique audio format - jointly developed with Targetplay - is designed to maximise audio KPI’s and minimise user disruption.”
Guillaume Monteaux, CEO of Gadsme, declared: “We are focused on delivering best in class non-intrusive monetization solutions to our gaming community and our elegant and unique audio format - jointly developed with Targetplay - is designed to maximise audio KPI’s and minimise user disruption.”
The most premium inventory in the market
Adam Pattison, Global Head of Targetplay, said : “Our advertising partners have been experimenting with in-game audio, and our partnership with Gadsme gives them access to some of the most premium inventory in the market today.”
“Targetspot was always a pioneer in the audio industry and with this division we maintain our vision of opening new possibilities in the audio advertising industry. Mobile gaming advertising spending is forecasted to reach 130 billion dollars worldwide in 2025*, a great opportunity for audio ads who are preferred by 75% of mobile users over video ads** because they allow the gamer to keep playing”, stated Mario Cabanas, General Manager at Targetspot.
*Source: Source: Juniper Research; ID 1240471 I Survey period: 2020, worldwide
** Source: Audiomob study
About Gadsme
Gadsme is a premium In-Game Ad monetisation solution, specialising in non-intrusive Ad formats. Recently backed by UbiSoft and Galazy Interactive and working with some of the largest gaming and advertisers worldwide. Their unique product offers stability and premium inventory, with a suite of options, including clickable performance based In-Game ads, to serve the entire advertising world with measurable KPIs and maximise revenue for game studios.
About Targetspot
Targetspot, an AdTech group company listed on the Brussels and Paris stock exchanges, has been a leader and pioneer in digital audio since 2007. Targetspot connects brands to their target audiences via an inventory of leading publishers across all areas of digital audio. Through its proprietary technologies, Targetspot provides end-to-end integration between advertisers and publishers, for contextually targeted, cookie-free campaigns involving both direct and programmatic buying. Targetspot is also a leader in audio streaming, its Shoutcast brand enabling over 85,000 radio stations to be streamed online. Targetspot is operational in 9 countries and employs around 100 people worldwide.
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