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As the industry adopts the in-stream video advertising format, ExoClick’s Business Intelligence team looked through our network data for Q2 to bring you some in-stream video insights. Growth of sites using in-stream video ad zones More and more websites have integrated in-stream ad zones on ExoClick’s network. Here you can see the growth over the last 3 quarters: Impression growth With more websites using the format naturally we have seen... Read More

We looked at ExoClick's network statistics during the World Cup 2018 to see if there were any trends. Our Business Intelligence team crunched the numbers for the two semi-final matches between France and Belgium, England and Croatia and the final between France and Croatia. For our base figure we examined traffic for each GEO that was playing 2 hours before the match (represented as 0 in our graphs). Then we... Read More

In part 2 of our 3 part API Masterclass we look at using our platform API for Zone Optimisation. Part 1 covered Data Collection (click here) The aim is for you as an advertiser to use our examples to help get you started using the API and then later, when you feel more confident you can start creating your own examples and tasks. Zone Optimization allows you to filter your... Read More

New for advertisers! The ExoClick Bidder is your smart assistant! It will revolutionise the automation of your campaign optimisation. Click here to check out the promo video which includes a platform walk through!   Read More

Many publishers find that desktop footer banners have a lower CTR than banners that appear above the fold. Usually this is because they have 3 smaller 300x250 banners in the footer position. ExoClick has created a large format 900x250 footer banner that can replace the 3 smaller banners. Because of its large format the new 900x250 banner is much more eye catching to users, which leads to a higher CTR... Read More

If you have never used ExoClick’s platform API this series of three blog posts will show you how to fetch and update data from our platform to help you analyse and optimise and automate campaigns, utilising examples from this spreadsheet which you must copy to your Google Drive. The aim is for you as an advertiser to use the examples to get you started using the API and then later, when you feel... Read More

From the 1st of July 2018 Google will begin marking all HTTP websites and webpages as "not secure". This change will coincide with the release of their updated browser, Chrome 68. The marking will appear within the URL browser navigation bar at the top and will look like this: You can find additional information on Googles security blog article here: So what will this mean? Google has been actively leading the market... Read More

ExoClick’s in-stream video ad format works with all major HTML5 video players. Here we show you how to integrate the format using Fluid Player, a free, open source, fully customisable  HTML5 video player. It is lightweight, easy to integrate and has advanced VAST capabilities.   If you are a publisher showing video content on your site and want to take advantage of monetising your content with video advertising, you can... Read More

ExoClick's Business Intelligence department has been busy crunching numbers and we have some interesting traffic insights for Q1 2018. The focus of these statistics are ExoClick's Native advertising and In-stream video ad formats. Native advertising statistics Q1 2018 1.The top 5 GEOs serving Native impressions were: In fact the USA is the biggest market for Native ads with predictions from eMarketer stating that this year 58.3% of US digital display... Read More

This blog post does not constitute legal advice, nor is this information intended to create or rise to the level of an attorney-client relationship. You should seek professional legal advice where appropriate.   What is GDPR? GDPR takes effect on May 25, 2018, replacing the existing Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC in order to harmonise data privacy laws across Europe (including the U.K.), to protect and empower all EU citizens data... Read More