Our guest blogger this month is John Lamphiere, who is Director of Sales & Operations at Quantcast Real-time Bidding (RTB), a key component of the programmatic advertising revolution, represents a massive platform change in the way we advertise online by bringing the relevance and efficiency of search to display. RTB spend will reach 429 million GBP […]
Introducing the Consumer Barometer by Google, a handy online tool which provides local data on the Irish market regarding digital consumer insights. The Consumer Barometer is a tool to help understand how people use the Internet across the world. It is a free online tool, that delivers consumer insights to support planning and decision-making in a […]
At the first IAB Ireland Digital Dinner of 2015, on January 21st we took the opportunity to question some of the industry experts attending and ask “What is on your Digital Wishlist for the coming year”? Here is a synopsis of the responses. Storytelling & Content The key note speaker for the first Digital Dinner […]
It is that time of year already, time to reflect and a look back over 2014 at the key activities, research and events at IAB Ireland. Digital Storytelling – share your brand story and get to know your audience Digital Storytelling was the theme for our fully booked annual conference IAB Connect, in February. Opening the […]
A review of our recent IAB Ireland Social Media Workshop held in Dublin. At IAB Ireland we have been busy re-launching our web site, improving our digital communications and refreshing our Social Media activities. To support these efforts, last week I spent a day on a training workshop on Social Media planning and implementation run by IAB Trainer Steve […]
This blog piece discusses some of the the new jargon in Social Media, highlighting some of the more interesting terms and phrases. Visit our new Social Media Glossary to find a comprehensive list of terms. Do you know the difference between Crowd-sourcing and Crowd-funding? What about an Unconference from a Splog? I often come across terms that I do not […]
The first in a two part blog piece on the changes in Display Advertising Measurement. As the industry moves from “served”to “viewable” impression measurement, let’s review the basics. Back in the early days of Digital Advertising, on October 27 1994 to be exact, when Wired.com (known then as “Hot Wired”) invented and displayed the first […]
An update on the IAB Ireland Social Media Council workings and some tips for Social Media success In my last blog post, I marveled at the increase in Social Media usage during the world’s biggest sporting event – World Cup 2014 in Brazil. Many records were broken during the world cup final, Facebook recorded 280 million […]
The second part of a blog on why this sporting event offers a huge opportunity to brands. Read the first blog post on the World Cup of Mobile. There is no doubt, it was a fabulous tournament with the culmination happening in dramatic style in extra time when Mario Götze scoring the winning goal in […]
The first of a two part blog on why this sporting event offers a huge opportunity to brands Looking around Dublin city centre last night it was clear that the World Cup was well underway, the sight of brightly adorned football fans on our streets is something we have now grown accustomed to, in two […]
