Veteran media executive, Kim Williams, is no stranger to new or unproven ideas. Fifteen years ago, he was involved in bringing video onto mobile phones in his role as chief executive at Foxtel – an idea which garnered its share of detractors.

The latest IAB Australia and SMI advertising reports paint a stellar picture of Australia’s advertising spend and appetite during 2021 and into the New Year despite the ongoing pandemic conditions and social setbacks of December and January’s influx of cases.

The quest for marketing alignment and improved campaign execution and efficiency across its dealer network has seen Kia Australia kick-off a digital marketing pilot with home-grown adtech player, Cartelux.

Australia’s digital advertising market experienced a robust comeback during the last quarter of 2020, reporting nearly 30 per cent spend increases compared to Q3 and over 20 per cent growth year-on-year buoyed by significant video advertising spend.

Optus Sports has struck a deal with supply-side adtech platform vendor, Magnite, as its preferred digital advertising partner as it looks to strengthen its position as a broadcast video on-demand (BVOD) provider.

Australian brands and agencies spent $9 billion on digital advertising in the 2019 financial year, a jump of 7.1 per cent from the previous year, according to the latest Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Online Advertising Expenditure Report.

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.

The trust deficit continues to grow between companies and consumers - and to succeed companies must measure and capitalise on their trust assets, according to PwC Australia's entertainment and media industry leader, Megan Brownlow.

Video and mobile advertising increases have driven a 13.2 per cent year-on-year growth in digital advertising according to the Australian Online Advertising Expenditure Report released by IAB/PwC.

Telstra is writing off investment in fledging video adtech and platform player, Ooyala, and will exit the adtech side of the business after it failed to meet performance expectations.

A lack of expertise in programmatic video advertising, not just brand safety fears, is holding back an otherwise hungry pack of Australian brands keen to invest in new and innovative digital video advertising solutions.

It’s no longer a fad. In fact, video on mobile devices is now de rigeur for consumers and brands alike – and marketers are scrambling to catch up.

Video and mobile advertising both experienced double-digit growth in the first three months of the year as digital advertising spend reached $1.15bn, IAB’s latest report reveals.

Video advertising has had another stellar year in terms of revenue and yield as advertisers increasingly deflect spend from other channels such as free-to-air TV and print.

Telstra is set to bring more personalised video content and advertising to customers after spending US$270 million (AUD $291m) on boosting its stake in Silicon Valley-based video analytics platform provider, Ooyala, to 98 per cent.

Marketers are failing to take advantage of the rising engagement opportunities available to them via social video channels such as Vine, Instagram Video and Snapchat, a new report claims.

Facebook has announced the global availability of its Premium Video Ads and supporting video metrics for advertisers across the social media site.

Online advertising is continuing on its rapid growth trajectory, recording a 17.1 per cent year-on-year expenditure increase in the first quarter of the year, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) reports.

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has launched a video advertising council to provide guidance and support around video advertising trading practices.

Global mobile advertising spending is forecast to hit US$41.9 billion (AUD$47.6bn) by 2017, driven by display formats and video categories.