Tag: DSP

New York, USA – Nexxen has announced the launch of ‘Deal Marketplace,’ the company’s latest feature within its demand-side platform, Nexxen DSP. With a centralized interface, Deal Marketplace is built to enable advertisers to better discover, visualise and activate preferred deals across connected TV (CTV), online video (OLV) and display, reducing overall time spent planning and executing campaigns.

The marketplace was designed to improve efficiency while also empowering advertisers to make data-backed decisions. Through Nexxen’s Deal Marketplace, advertisers gain transparency into a wide range of premium supply inventory, leveraging advanced audience-targeting capabilities.

These deals include TV Audiences – custom audience segments accessible via Nexxen’s proprietary TV intelligence solution, which combines both linear and streaming viewership data – as well as content-level targeting and first-to-market CTV high-attention and green media options. 

‘Deal Marketplace’ also offers inventory through contextually curated private marketplace (PMP) deals, crafted using a blend of content and audience-layered data.

David Roman, senior vice president at Nexxen DSP, said, “Deal Marketplace is a further example of Nexxen’s commitment to addressing key industry challenges in premium video and streaming. Through Deal Marketplace, we are reducing the time it takes buyers to discover and activate high-quality deals, so they can get back to what matters. Alongside the streamlined system, Deal Marketplace offers flexible technology, unique packages and differentiated targeting solutions and data sources.”

Singapore – Amazon Ads has unveiled new updates for its Amazon Demand-Side Platform (Amazon DSP) that drive precise full-funnel audience reach with streamlined campaign planning and optimisation, as well as introducing its AI creative studio and audio generator, two new generative AI tools designed to lower creative barriers and expand opportunities for advertisers to scale their reach.

To increase advertiser efficiency, Amazon DSP is launching a new user experience with simplified workflows to enable campaign creation in just a few clicks. In early tests, the new consolidated display line-item feature reduced campaign setup time. This feature brings together desktop, mobile, and app display inventory into a single line item, making it easier to launch and monitor reporting.

Moreover, Amazon DSP enhancements also include new frequency cap controls and reporting to simplify frequency management. Advertisers can now use the frequency groups feature to holistically manage their frequency caps across multiple campaigns, channels and devices—such as capping ad frequency at a household level. 

Lastly, Amazon Ads is also launching an ads data manager. This easy-to-use interface enables advertisers to securely upload their signals once, and then use them across Amazon DSP and Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) to engage relevant audiences, measure conversions, and optimise campaigns. It is integrated with providers like Treasure Data, Salesforce, and Tealium, so advertisers can import their first-party data from wherever they store it. With this, advertisers can use ads data manager to connect their first-party data with Amazon DSP audiences, and it will be fully integrated with the Amazon DSP and AMC in 2025.

Kelly MacLean, vice president of Amazon DSP, said, “The digital advertising landscape is rapidly evolving, with streaming TV becoming mainstream and full-funnel, cross-channel reach and measurement taking center stage. We’re inventing ad tech that makes it easier for all advertisers to navigate this evolution with precise reach, deeper insights, and direct measurement.”

She added, “Amazon DSP can uniquely drive top-to-bottom outcomes on Amazon’s properties, such as the store and Prime Video, as well as across leading streaming apps and premium publishers. We look forward to seeing advertisers leverage the capabilities announced today to fuel their business growth and engage more customers.”

Meanwhile, With audio generator, Amazon Ads expands its suite of AI-powered creative tools – including Image generator and Video generator – empowering brands to connect with customers across the shopping journey. These tools make it simple to build and activate new campaign creatives, helping brands experiment more freely and optimize based on performance – with little more than the information on their Amazon product page.

To further enhance a seamless ad building experience, Amazon Ads is releasing AI creative studio – which helps advertisers explore and create unique ads all in one place. AI creative studio brings Amazon Ads AI-powered creative generators into a single application, where brands can conceptualize, create, and refresh content regardless of format. Whether it’s turning a simple product shot into videos or, in the near future, converting a TV commercial into online sponsored ads, AI creative studio makes it easy to build and scale campaigns in innovative ways – helping brands reach customers.

Jay Richman, vice president of creative experiences for Amazon Ads, said, “We’re excited to introduce these new AI-powered creative tools, which have the potential to transform how brands connect with Amazon customers.By reducing the complexities of working across multiple formats and placements, these innovations empower advertisers to more easily reach their target audiences at every stage of the marketing funnel. They can also easily update creatives seasonally, generate fresh, trend-driven content, and tailor ads to different use cases. This leads to a more dynamic and engaging customer experience, ultimately helping to drive overall campaign performance.”

Singapore – Yahoo has announced first-to-market testing capabilities for its identity suite, ‘Yahoo Identity Solutions,’ directly in the Yahoo DSP. The move aims to have advertisers gain valuable media insights and prepare their businesses today to properly optimise and measure campaigns amid third-party cookie deprecation. 

Through this new identity suite, advertisers can test their campaign’s future-proofing strategies in a simulated environment directly within the Yahoo DSP across all web browsers and in-app inventory. The test also enables advertisers to remove cookies across all identity-related use cases such as frequency capping, targeting, conversion attribution, and reach metrics to understand how Yahoo Identity Solutions can support their programmatic media. 

Through a simple A/B test, advertisers can view a control line running on the web and in-app inventory as it exists today – inclusive of all third-party cookies and identifiers – and a test line that runs across the same environments without third-party cookies and device IDs, which leverages Yahoo Identity Solutions for targeting and buying. 

Moreover, by juxtaposing control and test campaigns, advertisers can get a better sense of future advertising trends, thereby optimising campaigns and enhancing overall outcomes. Identity testing can be run using a variety of audiences, including demographic, income, interest, lookalike, and predictive.

Elizabeth Herbst-Brady, chief revenue officer at Yahoo, said, “As cookie deprecation quickly approaches, advertisers are looking to easily and accurately test solutions without having to change the way they buy or introduce friction into their campaigns. These new testing capabilities and our continued enhancement of Yahoo Identity Solutions reflect our unwavering dedication to providing advertisers with accurate insights and measurable business outcomes.”

Meanwhile, Dan Richardson, director of data and insights for AUSEA at Yahoo, emphasises the significance of identity testing, saying, “These new testing features move Identity from back end to front and centre, right there in your campaign setup, giving advertisers more control and a bigger impact. This underscores Yahoo’s dedication to a privacy-centric and results-driven ecosystem in the APAC region, ensuring advertisers achieve their business objectives with precision and adaptability.”

Sydney, Australia – Ad platform Good-Loop and Yahoo have recently announced a global partnership offering carbon neutral private marketplace (PMP) media opportunities to advertisers, in order to help them become more sustainable. 

Through this partnership, advertisers and agencies buying through Yahoo’s DSP will now have access to the PMPs that rank in the top 25%, helping them ensure their ad campaigns are in line with their larger sustainability efforts.

Good-Loop achieves this by ranking domain in supply-side platforms (SSPs) based on their carbon score, allowing advertisers to easily find and buy low carbon emission supply, joining brands who are prioritising climate-friendly media with Good-Loop. 

On the other hand, Yahoo recently introduced its direct-to-publisher platform, ‘Yahoo Backstage,’ which serves as a reliable MFA-free supply source on the open Web with ‘Made for Advertising’ (MFA) sites consuming 21% of all programmatic ad impressions, leading to significant waste and carbon emissions.

Elizabeth Herbst-Brady, chief revenue officer at Yahoo, said, “Good-Loop’s carbon scoring provides advertisers with information about each publisher’s carbon footprint, allowing them to make more informed choices when it comes to the environmental impact of their ad campaigns. This improves the advertiser’s decision process, while also acting as an incentive for publishers to reduce carbon emissions, whether through supply path optimisation or improving infrastructure.”

Meanwhile, Amy Williams, CEO and founder, Good-Loop, commented,  “Now, Yahoo is also driving the industry toward more sustainable advertising habits by expanding advertiser awareness of low-emission PMPs—just one of several reasons we’re thrilled to partner with Yahoo. Together, we’re bringing the industry one step closer to its sustainability goals, giving advertisers around the globe the power to minimise their carbon footprint by evaluating the carbon cost of their campaign when media planning.”

Singapore – Criteo has announced the launch of its self-service demand-side platform (DSP) ‘Commerce Max’ as well as its retailer monetisation solution suite. These retail media solutions aim at addressing fragmentation and drive commerce outcomes across the entire advertising ecosystem 

‘Commerce Max’ gives brands and agencies a single point of entry to retail media inventory onsite and across premium publishers offsite. Meanwhile, Criteo’s retailer monetisation solution suite offers retailers the means to tap previously unattainable demand by paving the way for the integration of marketplace and in-store monetisation technologies.

Brands and agencies across the globe can use ‘Commerce Max’ to access data and inventory across multiple retailers and marketplaces, finding valuable audiences on these sites and extending these audiences offsite. This is underpinned by closed-loop measurement, enabling advertisers to quickly and efficiently determine the effectiveness of campaigns and optimise accordingly. 

Moreover, Criteo’s monetisation suite marks the next phase in the development of Criteo’s core monetization technology, ‘Commerce Yield’, which will not only provides retailers and marketplaces with a complete media toolset, but also serves commerce companies such as automakers, movie theaters, transportation services, airlines, amongst others.

Megan Clarken, CEO at Criteo, said, “Our focus is enabling all commerce-driven companies to buy and sell audiences engaged in shopping. The process has to be frictionless, and it has to solve for fragmentation. With today’s launch, we’re equipping our clients with the right tools to cut through and connect in a more unified retail media ecosystem that ultimately creates more unity across the broader advertising marketplace.”

Sydney, Australia – Adaptive streaming tech platform SeenThis and demand-side platform (DSP) Adform have announced a partnership as they continue to strive to minimise carbon emissions from the digital supply chain while improving and modernizing the online ecosystem.

The partnership will help to drive further carbon emissions savings capabilities in the market, with SeenThis’ adaptive streaming technology reducing data transfer on ad campaigns when compared to conventional technology – helping brands and agencies not only to reduce the environmental cost of their digital campaigns but also making their ads load faster and ensuring higher performance. 

In addition, Adform and SeenThis collaborate with Scope3 in their joint mission to help to devise best-in-industry approaches to enabling the reduction and measurement of carbon emissions when delivering display advertising. 

Now working in partnership, SeenThis and Adform will offer high-quality user experience and improved outcomes for more brands while achieving a measurably lower data footprint in campaigns when compared to conventional delivery methods.

Steve Alpe, partnerships director for ANZ at SeenThis, said, “Adform has already shown itself to be a pioneer in sustainability and will now aim even higher by leveraging our technology, which streams ads in bite-sized pieces, only when in-view – thereby significantly reducing data wastage and associated carbon emissions, when compared to conventional download technology.” 

He added, “Increasingly, brands are seeking to reduce negative impact on the environment through their media partners and choices. Fortunately, through the use of our groundbreaking technology, we are able to drive performance efficiencies and minimize emissions.”

Meanwhile, Naveen Angaru, head of customer success for APAC at Adform, commented, “We are producing great synergies as we continue on our shared mission of creating a more environmentally friendly marketplace. Increasingly, clients are choosing more sustainable publishers through the Adform DSP and, with SeenThis technology, we can help to drive less wasteful advertising.”

Singapore – Yahoo Advertising has announced the addition of high-attention pre-bid segments to its Yahoo DSP as a result of a partnership between Adelaide, attention metrics company. This partnership introduces a global solution that makes use of Adelaide’s known attention metric, making it quicker for advertisers to integrate attention metrics into their campaigns and achieve better business results.

The Yahoo DSP is an all-inclusive platform that provides significant scalability and a full set of capabilities for data analysis, automated bidding, and optimizing ad campaigns across numerous channels. Advertisers may successfully reach and engage their desired audiences thanks to innovative features like predictive audience modeling and proprietary data sources. 

The possibilities of the platform are expanded by incorporating Adelaide’s attention-based statistic, known as the AU (Attention Unit), into the Yahoo DSP. Through this integration, Yahoo Advertising customers now have a flexible way to find effective and reliable inventory for their campaigns.

Elizabeth Herbst-Brady, chief revenue officer at Yahoo, said, “The integration of Adelaide’s Attention Unit into our omnichannel DSP further equips clients with insight into media quality and increases programmatic performance.” 

Adelaide’s Attention Unit makes use of a machine learning algorithm to assess the chance that a media placement would get noticed and have an impact. The Attention Unit offers a precise and detailed quality score for each placement by examining numerous media quality signals, eye-tracking data, and detailed result data.

Meanwhile, Marc Guldimann, CEO & founder at Adelaide, commented, “The integration of our attention metric, AU, into the Yahoo DSP, reinforces our commitment to creating a more transparent media market. We’re thrilled to partner with Yahoo Advertising to address the challenge of quality opacity in programmatic and help leading brands like Verizon achieve more efficient outcomes.”

Shanghai, China – Global independent programmatic digital out-of-home (DOOH) adtech company, Hivestack, has partnered with SparkX Marketing, a Chinese cross-border martech company.

The partnership will see SparkX leveraging Hivestack’s DSP to bring global automation and performance measurement to its clients’ campaigns in DOOH for the first time. Through this, clients of SparkX will be able to access Hivestack’s full suite of tools within the Hivestack DSP, including the ability to build custom audiences, set up live geo-location targeting, plan, buy and deliver programmatic DOOH campaigns globally.

Aileen Ku, Hivestack’s general manager for China, shared that as enthusiasm builds for programmatic DOOH around the world, they are thrilled to partner with SparkX Marketing to continue to drive forward the adoption of the channel. 

“Our unique position as a global, independent ad tech company provides crucial opportunities for local advertisers to plan and deliver contextualised, targeted and measurable campaigns around the world via our global network of DOOH inventory,” said Ku.

Meanwhile, Jun Yuan, SparkX Marketing’s founder, commented that this is a very exciting partnership for their business and will allow their clients to scale their business via programmatic DOOH outside of China for the first time. 

“We look forward to collaborating with our new partner at Hivestack to leverage their market-leading programmatic technology and global network of DOOH inventory to offer our clients a way to precisely engage worldwide audiences outside of the home,” said Yuan.

Just recently, Hivestack has partnered with BlueFocus Media, to enable Chinese brands to plan, activate, and measure DOOH campaigns programmatically via the Hivestack demand-side platform (DSP) from within China to outside China and all over the world.

Singapore – Yahoo, the premier global media and technology company, has announced an APAC-wide partnership with Near, a privacy-led data intelligence on people, places and products, which will be bringing together the strengths of Near’s unique location intelligence data combined with Yahoo’s omnichannel demand-side platform (DSP) and a suite of identity solutions for cookieless advertising.

This partnership builds on Yahoo and Near’s year-long alliance in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), which yielded positive results for Yahoo’s clients in the region. Near’s privacy-by-design data set of people’s real-world behaviour and AI solutions will be integrated into Yahoo’s DSP, complementing Yahoo’s suite of identity solutions, Yahoo ConnectID and Next-Gen Solutions.

In an increasingly omnichannel world, where consumers routinely move between online channels and offline environments, marketers continue to deal with the fragmentation of their customer view across channels, between online engagement and real-world store visits. Yahoo’s APAC partnership with Near  aims to deliver a unified perspective to advertisers, bridging the gap in online and offline targeting, attribution, and measurement. 

Within the same campaign, brands can now track all digital marketing delivered through Yahoo’s ad platforms, regardless of the channel or creatives, against online engagement or store traffic. As they connect the connections in omnichannel audience activation and campaigns, this benefit will be crucial for advertisers to find incremental audiences and design the correct channel mix.

Dan Richardson, head of data ANZ at Yahoo, shared, “Our partnership with Near has been pivotal in driving the success of the Yahoo DSP in ANZ, particularly for emerging channels such as Digital Out of Home and immersive experiences with Augmented Reality, enabling effective targeting, measurement and attribution of consumers across all channels.”

Richardson added, “The benefits of Yahoo’s omnichannel DSP and our direct consumer relationship with nearly 900 million people globally, combined with Near’s rich insights and actionable intelligence, can now empower advertisers across the wider APAC region to steer the success of omnichannel campaigns.”

Shobhit Shukla, co-founder at Near, commented, “We are excited to expand our partnership with Yahoo to help advertisers across APAC harness the power of privacy-led data intelligence to optimise their omnichannel campaigns. Early successes have shown that the combination of Near’s real-world signals, Yahoo’s first-party data and omnichannel DSP give advertisers the leverage and actionable insights they need to make better decisions to drive impactful omnichannel campaigns,” 

In APAC, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, and India, the location-based targeting and measurement solutions, as well as Near’s data collection, are now available for activation in the Yahoo DSP.

Singapore – Carousell Media Group, the advertising arm of Carousell Group, which holds recommerce platforms or marketplaces for pre-loved items such as Carousell, Mudah.my, ChoTot, OneKyat and Ox Street, has launched a first-of-its-kind recommerce programmatic buying platform. 

Called ‘Connect’, the tech is launched via the group’s advertising arm Carousell Media. The platform will deploy DSP ad technology and will be powered by the buying, selling, and search data signals generated from Carousell Media Group’s wide monthly user count across Greater Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

JJ Eastwood, managing director of Carousell Media Group, shared that the Connect platform was launched to allow brands to reach buyers and sellers both on and off Carousell’s marketplaces since “inspiration, discovery, and purchase can happen anywhere.” 

“We have witnessed unprecedented growth in recommerce over the last 12 months, that’s being propelled by consumer demand for sustainability as well as e-commerce, and it’s quickly becoming an important component of the consumer-brand relationship,” said Eastwood. 

The group said the Connect platform will give advertisers a viable alternative to the closed environments like Google and Facebook, by providing them with full-funnel marketing solutions and enabling them to engage with Carousell Media Group’s audiences on every ad format, such as video, display, audio, and Connected TV. Furthermore, Carousell Media Group says that the integration of first-party and third-party data sets is what sets the Connect offering apart from others. 

The platform was initially offered to selected advertisers, with Decathlon being a prominent one. The parent group said that as part of 2022’s rollout under Connect, its ad arm will be launching new ad products, such as Carousell Search Ads which will enable advertisers to fully leverage real-time keyword searches. 

As a parent company to classifieds platforms, Carousell Group has been shaping its capabilities to help entities in its advertising efforts. In November 2021, it launched for the second time its ‘Free Ads for Charities’ initiative, an advertising support program for non-profit organizations (NPOs) in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines.