The US Super Bowl has become as much about the football and half-time performances as it has about the ads. And this year’s game was notable not just for J Lo and Shakira, but a less visible innovation - blockchain-based digital advertising by Avocados from Mexico.

Privacy will remain high on the consumer’s agenda, as marketers look to different channels to connect with consumers.

9Galaxy will become the technology underpinning a common demand-side buying platform (DSP) for the television industry after Australian broadcasters joined forces to agree to a unified platform for advertising.

Val Morgan has launched a raft of new initiatives for it advertisers, including a new brand positioning, a digital publishing platform, and programmatic out-of-home (OOH) advertising.

​Global ad fraud is worth $22.4 billion and Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, excluding China and Japan, accounts for 1 per cent of the share of ad fraud, according to new research from GroupM.

Adtech player, AppNexus, now a part of Xandr, is setting its sights firmly on the future with development of an addressable, measurable, omnichannel digital media ecosystem.

Internet advertising growth is waning and expected to slow even further as take-up matures in the next three years. And Australia’s predictions are looking even worse than those globally.

JC Decaux has its sights set on dominating and growing Australia’s out-of-home media market and will use data and audience-based programmatic capability, as well as its broader array of OOH assets, to do it, its CEO says.

A blockchain-based test of programmatic advertising for PepsiCo has improved ad efficiency by 28 per cent as a result of using smart contracts.

Want to reach someone who wants to buy a car, rather than just kick the tyres? Or pick up some home and garden equipment, rather than just seek inspiration? Maybe you should be looking up a tree.

Brands taking more accountability for their data, and the growing programmatic market locally are just two of the reasons Adform recently decided to open its first Australian office.

All the latest martech and adtech news this week from RTL Group, MediaMath, Gimbal, Akamai, Janrain, HERE, Verve, Innovid, Sprout Social and Smaato.

Fragmented audio and ineffective targeting led National Australia Bank (NAB) to implement one of the first and largest programmatic digital audio campaigns in Australia.

If there's one thing about marketing that can be said to be constant, it's that it always changes. With new technologies, such as voice, AI, machine learning, virtual reality, augmented reality, natural language processing and facial recognition, about to become mainstream, it can feel as marketers, that we are always chasing our tails.

​Sixty-five per cent of all money spent on advertising in digital media in 2019 will be traded programmatically. According to Zenith’s Programmatic Marketing Forecasts, programmatic ad spend is also set to grow 19 per cent next year, reaching US$84 billion globally or 62 per cent of digital media expenditure, with Australian programmatic spend to reach US$1.64 billion next year.

Mindshare and blockchain provider, Zilliqa, have partnered with MediaMath, Rubicon Project and Integral Ad Science to build a programmatic alliance on blockchain designed to address industry challenges in programmatic advertising.

​If your marketing is intrusive, you will not exist. This is the advice from Bonzai CEO, Rahul Pandey, who was visiting Sydney last week.

Nine is claiming an Australian first after launching addressing video advertising through its 9Now video on-demand offering.

​Allianz’s test and learn approach to online video advertising is not only helping the brand understand what publishers and platforms are the best for reaching prospective customers, it’s changing the way teams think about data, audiences and creative, its senior media planner, Mark Dawson, says.

A new programmatic digital marketing platform is giving Raine & Horne property listings and managed sites up to 17 times more exposure in front of buyers and tenants and 12 times the industry average clickthrough rates.

The onus is on client-side marketers to keep themselves educated on the latest advertising technology platforms if they want to drive more efficient and valuable customer engagement, Lenovo’s digital and social marketing leader, Danielle Uskovic, says.