In this weekly section, ExchangeWire sums up essential industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region– and in this edition: AU Broadcasters Seeking To Construct Centralised Instruction Website; APAC Luxury Online Ad Spend Grows 25%, Though Print Remains Main Channel; Alibaba Buys Stake in Digital Marketing Firm; Amobee Outbids Auction Rivals to Acquire Videology Assets; and Tencent Leads China Membership OTT Video.AU Broadcasters Looking
to Develop Centralised Briefing Website A group of free-to-air and pay TV
broadcasters in Australia are aiming to construct a centralised briefing portal, that incorporates their numerous trading platforms, to allow advertisers and firms to brief them on projects and purchase stock by means of a single location.And they have engaged Accenture’s advisory company IBB Consulting to assist recognize a tech supplier to develop the portal.Seven West Media, Foxtel, 9 Entertainment, Network 10, and Multi-Channel Network(MCN)also brought in market body ThinkTV to drive the effort on their behalf.The rundown portal was promoted to streamline details for repaired ad placements and automated TELEVISION spot trading, enabling media purchasers to visit and provide information of their projects through a centralised control panel. The objective here was to remove the requirement for marketers to brief each broadcaster repeatedly.IBB had actually put up an ask for proposal that would give selected suppliers till the 3rd quarter of 2018 to respond. The website would not operate as a centralised ad-trading platform, so each network still would run their own trading system.ThinkTV CEO Kim Portrate said:”This service will deliver scale and work flow efficiencies for marketers, firms, and broadcasters and work has actually begun in earnest to
provide it. It is a complicated task and we are seeking advice from media companies and advertisers to guarantee it meets their needs.”Nine’s chief sales officer Michael Stephenson included that the portal would make the procedure of instruction and purchasing TV stock easier, because it integrated into the broadcasters ‘numerous systems, driving
higher performance for their clients.MCN CEO Mark Frain said:”It will provide agencies and customers a single area for all TELEVISION briefs, which will increase effectiveness, conserve time, and relieve the transactional barriers for the entire TELEVISION buying marketplace.”APAC High-end Online Ad Invest Grows 25%, Though Print Remains Primary Channel While print remained the main channel for high-end marketing invest last year, online luxury ads clocked a 25%development rate in Asia-Pacific. Print represented 33%of high-end advertisement spendin the region in 2017, stated Sizmek, mentioning information insights from advertisements
served and tracked on its platform, which supported marketing activities of 61 luxury brands in Australia, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The ad platform touched more than 300 billion taped impressions, from websites and mainstream vertical media, which 14 billion specifically were for the luxury sector.Luxury brands typically have invested greatly in print advertisements, especially high-end way of life publications, however have begun moving ad dollars to digital channels as consumers invested more time consuming material online.China and Taiwan have seen consistent growth in online luxury ad spending since 2013, and continued to move to digital platforms last year.But, while high-end brands were moving to digital in 2017, issues around brand security and exclusivity were still a mainstay, pushing these marketers to control their digital stock buys.
They appeared reluctant to embrace programmatic, with 97 %of total impressions served on Sizmek’s platform via direct publishers.By the end of 2018, however, the ad-tech vendor forecasted that digital would account for 31 %of total ad invest in the region’s luxury sector.Alibaba Buys Stake in Digital Marketing Company Alibaba Group has acquired a 6.62%stake in Shanghai-based digital marketing business Focus Media Infotech, for USD$ 1.43 bn(₤ 1.09 bn), and will further increase its share over the next year.The Chinese web giant said, in a filing to the New York Stock Exchange, that it
hoped to check out new models of digital marketing through the
investment. It likewise revealed strategies to buy another 5%share in Focus Media within the next 12 months.China’s largest out-of-home (OOH)advertisement network, Focus Media, runs digital advertisement screens across 300 cities in the nation including on streets, in subways, and in elevators, reaching 200 million middle-class customers. Its midterm goal is to have five million terminals in 500 Chinese cities, reaching 500 million middle-class consumers.In addition to its direct financial investment, Alibaba
also would fork out USD$ 504.7 m(₤ 384.13 m)for 10%in an entity managed by Focus Media’s creator and chairman Jason Jiang Nanchun, which owned 23.34%share of Focus Media.Alibaba-affiliate New Retail Strategic Opportunities Fund likewise would obtain a 1.37%share in the OOH operator. Omitting the prepared 5%purchase, these financial investments would amount to USD$ 2.23 bn( ₤ 1.7 bn )and offer Alibaba a 10.32%stake
in Focus Media.Alibaba said the investment was part of its larger New Retail strategy, which melded online and offline commerce to offer a much better user experience, while providing marketing tools and customer analytics to merchants on its online marketplaces.It also provided
synergies with Alibaba’s digital marketing unit Alimama, and made it possible for Alibaba to deliver new digital channels through which brand names might sell and get in touch with consumers.Amobee Outbids Auction Rivals to Acquire Videology Assets Singtel’s digital marketing subsidiary Amobee has acquired numerous properties from video marketing expert Videology for USD$ 101m(₤ 76.87 m), after outbidding others in a court-supervised auction.The < a href= https://www.amobee.com/company/newsroom/amobee-wins-auction-process-to-acquire-videology-assets > acquisition includes
Videology’s innovation platform, intellectual residential or commercial property, and other possessions, with an estimated net book value of USD$ 5.3 m(₤ 4.03 m). The court auction followed Videology’s Chapter 11 restructuring proceedings.Amobee stated the possession acquisition would boost its omnichannel platform and help marketers meet increasing consumer demand for premium video and connected TV content.Singtel’s digital life group CEO Samba Natarajan included that it positioned Amobee in a more powerful position to record worldwide digital marketing opportunities with the merging of TELEVISION and digital.Amobee CEO Kim Perell
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