China News Shanghai, May 21 (Yin Jun) On May 20th, the Fifth DeepZero | iPinYou Global Programmatic Advertising Summit was held in Shanghai. This was a marquee event hosted annually highlighting the most comprehensive and respected view of China's internet technology field. This summit's theme focused on "Cross Screen Era, Seize the Momentum", aiming at exploring the growth trends and opportunities of programmatic advertising in the era of multiple screens. The summit gathered 300 of the world’s top 500 enterprises consisting of Advertisers with annual budgets surpassing tens of billions. The participants focused on the hottest topic in the programmatic buying industry with a specific focus on programmatic trends within cross-screen.
Grace Huang, the founder, and CEO of DeepZero | iPinYou said in the speech titled: "Programmatic Buying: From Concept to Value" that in the mobile internet era, DSP platforms owning cross-screen ability will be essential for Advertisers as cross-screen enters into a golden era. The prediction of programmatic buying as the new trend for marketers in 2015 was also shared by Mr. Nils Roehrig, the Chief Digital Officer of GroupM. Through his speech titled as "China's Programmatic Buying Under the Global Perspective", Nils shared the differences between China's programmatic buying and that of other markets and stated his perspective on the importance of agencies within the programmatic advertising ecosystem. He also reinforced the point that programmatic advertising will become the first option for advertisers. Ms. Asmita Dubey, the CMO of L'Oreal in China also addressed a speech titled: "Big Data in Beauty Products Industry". Asmita shared the programmatic buying strategy of L'Oreal as a big brand advertiser. Mr. Rahul Vasudev, the General Manager of MediaMath in the Asia-Pacific area, introduced how international advertisers fully realize the value of "targeting the right ads to the right target audience at the right time". This was interesting to the audience as the embrace of cross-screen DSP systems was shared from the perspective of a major international DSP. Ms. Ashwini Karandikar, the Global President of Amnet, lastly spoke on "How Big Data Changes China's Marketing" with programmatic buying playing an increasingly important role in sales marketing.
Stephen Dolan, the General Manager of Integral Ad Science, America's biggest advertising environment/brand safety company, declared at the summit that they have signed a strategic cooperation agreement with DeepZero | iPinYou to jointly promote the expansion of brand safety products and technologies in China. The General Manager of Retail Solutions Inc., the world's largest business intelligence and data analysis provider in the global retail industry, also attended the summit and mentioned the exclusive technical cooperation with DeepZero | iPinYou. This partnership is expected to open up "O2O One Key Pass" products better utilizing the perfect combination of offline and online data for Advertisers. During the summit, Tencent Open Platform also formally announced the launch of their programmatic exchange platform GDT Ad Exchange, which is open to only a few premium DSPs including DeepZero | iPinYou.
This summit established a private marketing board with the specific purpose of discussing the most essential topics for Advertisers. Namely, five major topics surrounding programmatic advertising were top of the mind: brand industry solutions, mobile programmatic buying, e-commerce programmatic buying, self-service programmatic advertising platforms and partners, and other topics of the utmost concern for Advertisers.
According to iResearch data, the programmatic display advertising market of China in 2014 reached RMB4.84 billion, with a growth rate of 216.5% year over year. It is expected that the entire China's programmatic buying market will reach RMB28.27 billion by 2017, accounting for 28.2% of China's display advertising market. China's programmatic market is going through rapid growth. In addition, data from DeepZero | iPinYou Big Data Research Institute also show that mobile advertising is only beginning to enter the programmatic buying era, and is expected to achieve rapid growth exceeding 300% in 2015.
Insiders in the advertising industry predict that in 2015, the total scale of China's programmatic advertising market will reach RMB7.3 billion, the overall display advertising market will achieve RMB100 billion, and the entire market scale of China's advertising network including SEM and display advertising would hit RMB200 billion. Both the buyers of digital advertising represented by advertisers and agencies and the sellers of digital advertising represented by media and advertising trading platforms are going through an overall programmatic boom. Programmatic advertising is expected to revolutionize the display advertising market, creating brand-new opportunities for Advertisers, Publishers, and Ad Tech companies alike.
