Programmatic buying is becoming increasingly important to the China advertising industry. But in recent weeks, executives, including Publicis’ Maurice Levy, have shared how a dip in the luxury market in China has affected their business. We reached out to several industry executives in China with the following question: How is the slowdown in the China […]
Yoyi Media, one of the major DSPs in China, will launch a data management platform called Data Bank for clients in early 2014, according to CEO Roy Zhou. “If you want a good result, regardless if you’re a direct response client or a branding client, you need to have very good data,” Zhou told AdExchanger. […]
Although China’s mobile users represent the world’s largest smartphone market (research firm IDC predicts China’s smartphone shipments will exceed 450 million in 2014), numerous challenges constrain non-Asian advertisers’ ability to get a foothold. Still, there’s recourse for advertisers looking to break into the Chinese market, largely in the form of partnerships. Chinese mobile advertising is […]
A growing number of ad exchanges, trading desks, DSPs and agencies are emerging to occupy the Chinese programmatic market. AdChina, an advertising-technology company for both the supply and demand side, has been around since 2007 and its CEO, Alan Yan, has seen how the Chinese marketplace has evolved in recent years. “Our original goal, when […]
As the programmatic and real-time bidding (RTB) market in the Asia-Pacific region heats up, local inventory is starting to prove its worth and attract interest from advertisers. Demand-side platform (DSP) Brandscreen released its second Real Time Media Insights Report Monday, highlighting the battle between global and local inventories. “The trends that continued from the previous […]
Omnicom Media Group’s trading desk, Accuen, has expanded its reach in the BRIC countries over the past year, and Jun Yuan, head of Accuen China, is navigating the unique challenges of the market. “As an agency, we started our RTB business in China last year, in April,” Yuan told AdExchanger, noting that the team is […]
As programmatic buying in China continues to pique marketers’ interest, demand-side platforms working in the country are growing in revenue and importance. Internet market research firm iResearch recently released an excerpt of its China DSP Market Trends Report 2013, including the market size of DSP display advertising in China, or the amount of ad spend […]
Baidu, China’s equivalent of Google in search scope, is bringing a surplus of intent data to demand-side platform Brandscreen through a strategic deal the two have forged. Using Brandscreen’s RTB platform, advertisers now have access to Baidu Exchange Service inventory spanning 500 million unique users and 15 billion impressions monthly; it’s estimated that Baidu commands […]
This report concludes our series on programmatic buying in the BRIC countries. Read the earlier pieces on Brazil, Russia and India. Tencent. Baidu. TaoBao. These websites are some of the most popular portals in China and, combined, made more than 42.8 billion yuan in advertising revenue in 2012 (approximately $7 billion), according to data from iResearch. This is not […]
Alibaba Group, the Chinese equivalent of Amazon, has invested $206 million in ShopRunner, a member-only subscription ecommerce platform connecting consumers to hundreds of retail brands (like Toys R Us and Tommy Hilfiger) and a plethora of perks — like free, two-day shipping and express checkout for $79 a year or $8.95 a month. Alibaba, in […]
