IAB Digital Video Center of Excellence

whitePaper | December 1, 2021

As expectations of customers evolve rapidly due to their everyday interactions with big tech companies, the sales and marketing function across industries is striving to deliver carefully curated, hyper-personalized experiences to consumers. Success in today’s experience economy largely depends on ensuring customer-centricity throughout the customer lifecycle. However, creating better emotional connections with customers may prove to be a daunting exercise considering the explosion of data, lack of in-house data and analytics expertise, decreasing attention spans of consumers, and shrinking marketing budgets.

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

As the ad tech industry is readying itself for a new privacy-centric future, the key question is: in a world without ad trackers, how can advertisers continue to reach their target audiences at scale?

whitePaper | November 7, 2022

The trend report explores the boundary between the digital and physical; how does a medium like out of home (OOH) relate to the metaverse? We discuss how OOH is developing and how brands can share sustainable and believable content within the traditional media space as well as in the emerging metaverses. Dentsu also predicts that omnichannel planning will be a key driver of the growth of (D)OOH.

whitePaper | April 26, 2022

Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency (“ATT”) has drawn substantial commentary. Some see ATT as disruptive and self-serving, while others view it as a privacy-preserving tool that is ushering in a new era of advertising. However, the commentary often betrays a lack of understanding of what ATT is and what it is not, and draws speculative conclusions about its impact.

whitePaper | February 6, 2023

With casual gaming advertising - particularly the high-performing rewarded video ad format - smartclip offers a powerful, brand-safe, and effective way for companies to reach their potential customers with targeted, scalable campaigns. In this white paper, smartclip aims to ensure the opportunities presented by casual gaming advertising are accessible to all, sharing the insight, expertise, and knowledge needed to take any campaign to the next level.

whitePaper | November 11, 2019

The measurement of advertising effectiveness is steeped in a history of evolution and the introduction of digital channels has increased this pace of change. In order to understand how the industry measures digital ad effectiveness and how digital media contributes to advertising success, this white paper collates a range of industry measurement approaches along with general research findings and learnings. The white paper also provides guidance and considerations, based on these learnings, for campaign measurement.