• Advertising Trends

With the arrival of this year's Oscars ceremony, we thought we'd take a look at the best trailers and advertising from this year's best films. The Oscars 2018 will be held this Sunday, March 4th, at 5pm on ABC. Host Jimmy Kimmel will be joined by members of the industry, their families, and millions of television viewers, as they give out awards and tributes to celebrate this year's best in cinema. The annual event, held in Los Angeles, celebrates the best acting, directing, screenwriting, and so on from the year most recently passed.

• Ads.txt
• Advertising Trends

In 2017, the conversation surrounding transparency in advertising gained quite a bit of traction, as many brands expressed their distrust in the high levels of fraud surrounding them. Within that conversation, emerged a new tool, known as Ads.txt. The idea for something like this had been lingering in the back of the industry’s mind, but never received the proper support to become a reality. This year's intensified conversation surrounding brand safety made it possible, however.

• Advertising Trends
• Mobile Advertising

Snapchat is one of the fastest growing social media networks, currently valued at about $18 billion. It’s also one of the fastest growing platforms for mobile advertisers. The number of brands advertising on Snapchat is rising very quickly. These brands seek to target the platform’s youthful audience – 71% of current users are under the age of 34.

• Ad Tech
• Advertising Trends

The predictions below come from Todd Krizelman, CEO & Co-Founder, MediaRadar.

• Advertising Trends
• Programmatic Advertising

In 2017, many questions arose regarding advertisers and the content they're surrounded with. Some brands saw their ads running alongside unsavory content, and so the discussion of brand safety in programmatic advertising began to gain much more traction.

• Advertising Trends
• Native Advertising

Native ad campaigns are continually changing. In fact, native is one of the fastest growing products in digital advertising today. In light of this, each month, we review the native ads we've seen and highlight the most prevalent campaigns. Perhaps you can include some of these strategies in your own native offerings. In the MediaRadar Native Advertising Roundup, we select four noteworthy campaigns to highlight, offering insights into their native strategy. In last month's roundup, we saw innovative campaigns from Kia, Immaculate Baking Company, TitleMax, and PNC Bank.

• Advertising Mergers and Acquisitions

At MediaRadar, we strive to keep industry members up-to-date with the latest and most important news and announcements.   Moving forward, we'll be writing about each month's notable mergers and acquisitons within the publisher and brand space.

• Advertising Trends
• Programmatic Advertising

In every field, every industry, and in almost every way, the world keeps moving more towards automated processes. For publishers filling online ad space, the introduction of automation has presented an efficiency previously not available. It better optimizes ad space, with more stable placements, less wasted inventory, and higher guaranteed return on that inventory.

• Advertising Trends

We now move onto the penultimate post in our 12 Ads of Christmas blog series.

It's been quite the ride thus far, filled with ads about cars, credit cards, mattresses, dating sites, sneakers, razors, toys, diamond rings, eyewear, and liquor...

Let's take an exact look at how MediaRadar's cover of the "12 Days of Christmas" is playing out: