Smart Data: How the industry is starting to evolve and adopt better data strategies

Zee Ahmad, Director of Programmatic at Axonix

Identifying audiences, gaining actionable insights based on their interactions with advertising is of course a key focus across the industry.

Data is a key instrument in how we go about achieving this. It also binds together other areas such creativity, video and also metrics such as Viewability. For example as important as it is for ads to be viewable, is it not just as important to ensure that the right people are viewing the right ads?

The mobile battle lines are drawn

Dino Myers-Lamptey, Head of Strategy, the7stars

Long gone are the pronouncements of next year being “the year of Mobile”. Futurologist and media ninjas have become bored of being wrong, and journalists have given up taking anyone seriously who dares to start a sentence with that phrase. However there’s a lot of mobile ducks aligning that could suggest 2016 very well could be, the year.

The Mobile Viewability Enigma

Noelia Amoedo, CEO, mediasmart

Mobile viewability continues to spark debate as mobile media buying becomes increasingly programmatic and both media buyers and sellers clamour for guarantees and standards. Either side are companies claiming viewability on mobile is not an issue and those who strongly argue it is, and data has only confused the issue.