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Smith Brothers Media
Smith Brothers Media wins big at Horizon Interactive Awards
Smith Brothers Media (SBM) has been awarded seven golds and one Best in Category award for video, advertising and website design delivered in 2021 at the international Horizon Interactive Awards.

FAQ
FAQ: Techday advertising specifications
Here we run through Techday advertising specs, including ad types, file types, dimensions, and more.

FAQ
Why digital advertising is dead at Techday
We briefly explain why we are phasing out advertising across our network of technology news sites.

Machine learning
Moloco launches updates to Cloud Demand-Side Platform
The latest updates focus on improving performance through intelligent budget allocation, automating workflows through smart campaign UI/UX, and ad creation.

Cheetah Digital
Australian consumers demand hyper-personalisation, new report reveals
The way to engage with consumers is through real-time, hyper-personalised experiences, a new eConsultancy report, in partnership with Cheetah Digital reveals.

Apps
App and social media usage numbers soar in Australia
Social media and general app usage has soared in Australia, with new figures revealing 83% of Australians are now on some form of social media.

Ridesharing
Study: Rideshare apps hungry for customers personal data
Data has revealed the most data-hungry rideshare apps on the market, along with other surprising results around their safety and reliability.

FAQ
Techday's SuperLink's advertising option explained
In line with an extensive redesign of our sites, SuperLinks will allow clients to have full-scale access to a variety of advertising capabilities along with our unmatched customer service.

Carousell Media Group
Carousell launches reCommerce ad buying platform as alternative to 'walled gardens'
Carousell Media Group’s MD says reCommerce has experienced unprecedented growth in the last 12 months.

Compliance
Snowflake launches Media Data Cloud, a collaboration tool for media and advertising
“The Snowflake Media Data Cloud will fuel the next wave of innovation in the advertising ecosystem.”

Cloud
Twitter trials new advertising system in tweet conversations
The experiment, which inserts ads under the first, third, or eighth reply under a tweet, brings more advertising opportunities for businesses - and more ad saturation to its customers.

Advertising
Advertisers modelling GFC behaviour as Facebook ad costs tank and Google Ads rise
"Marketers are looking to prove return on investment by spending on what is measurable and targeting customers who are already searching and already in the click and buy cycle."

Remote Working
Google sending relief to thousands of SMBs across A/NZ
Google has this week rolled out a Google Ad credit scheme, available to all SMBs with active accounts over the past year.

Advertising
New marketing technology consultancy STITCH launches
STITCH aims to help global and local businesses deliver better customer experiences by employing a combination of strategy, data, advertising and marketing technology.

Microsoft
Arq Group improves customers' reach with Microsoft Advertising
The new partnership will enable Arq Group to deliver more targeted, personalised and timely connections for customers.

Advertising
NZ digital advertising revenue reaches $275m in Q1
Search advertising was the most popular advertising medium, accounting for 63.3% of total advertising revenue.

Advertising
Aussies on top at Adobe’s 2019 APAC partner awards
Three of the five awards were given to Australian companies at the 2019 ceremony held in Hong Kong.

Google
How to make Google Ads campaigns work for your business
Some businesses tend to run a campaign for two or three months and waste a lot of money in the process.

Android
Popular Android apps track users and violate Google's policies
Google has reportedly taken action against some of the violators.

Digital Marketing
Digital advertising not a 'black hole' of distrust, says marketing expert
While New Zealanders distrust digital advertising due to things like online ad fraud, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Cloud
Google Marketing Platform bridges gap between analytics & marketing
Google has bridged the gap between DoubleClick Digital Marketing and its Google Analytics 360 Suite through a single solution.

Advertising
Adobe brings analytics to paid search campaigns with new integrations
The company has launched 'Advertising Analytics for Paid Search' in an effort to provide more clarity to paid search campaigns.

Advertising
Online retail giant’s Australia launch shakes local market
“The company's top competitors have all dramatically increased their advertising budgets."

Google
Report: Is social media marketing worth the hype?
“If SEO growth slows, then Google product listing advertisements and paid search advertisements will still have the business covered."