Attention spans are short, and they’re getting shorter. Consumers today are bombarded with editorial, commercial and social messages through more devices and sources than ever. As a video platform we’re acutely aware of the challenges brands face when trying to engage consumers, and are especially conscious of the damage that irrelevant messages can do - to both brands and publishers.

Marketing has many years of experience in the use of digital media and, in part, marketing automation. Some marketers are even using Big Data and Predictive Marketing successfully by now. Consistent digitization includes processes as well as business models and data-driven (as opposed to data-informed) approaches. For short, technology is gaining in importance.

In a worldwide call for better respect for consumer privacy and relevant advertising experiences, a new report from MediaMath shows that although the majority of marketers understands the commercial importance of focusing on the consumer experience, many of them are still failing to adopt best practice.

Jeanne Harris and Marc Mc Donald impressed me with their top-notch article in the Harvard Business Review Insight Center Report “Predictive Analytics in Practice”, that immediately starts with the statement: “If knowledge is power, then predictive analytics promises the ultimate knowledge—that of the future – which is within reach”.

PHD announced the launch of Engine, a specialist unit built for automotive brand Volkswagen, which has been designed to capitalize on the volume of anonymous data being generated by consumers researching cars online. The new approach, which will roll out globally in Q4 this year, will ensure Volkswagen can deliver relevant content to consumers as they move through their digital journey to purchasing a vehicle.

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) first appeared to web users in February 2016, when Google began to show the AMP versions of webpages in mobile search results: AMP pages are published on the open web and can be displayed in most current browsers. When a standard webpage has an AMP counterpart, a link to the AMP page is usually placed in an HTML tag in the source code of the standard page. Because most AMP pages are easily discoverable by web crawlers, third parties such as search engines and other referring websites can choose to link to the AMP version of a webpage instead of the standard version.

According to the Seeding Alliance's Native Advertising Study, the industry is in agreement that native advertising is an attractive source of revenue for publishers and advertisers through its integrated placement and scaling capabilities, especially for mobile Internet use. However, it also becomes clear that the form of advertising has only become more widespread in the recent past, due to the lack of a general definition and uniform market standards, so that Native Advertising receives the full acceptance and trust of users.

Millennials represent more than 45% of Asia Pacific’s population, and with 60% of the world’s millennials expected to live in Asia by 2020, it’s a group that no one can afford to ignore.

A recent study, presented by the content delivery network and cloud security specialist CDNetworks, revealed a major discrepancy between corporate reality and self-assessment in IT security.

Ralph Echemendia, better known by his alter ego “The Ethical Hacker,” just announced at Money 20/20, Europe’s largest FinTech event in Amsterdam, the launch of SEGURU, an application created to provide the most secure approach towards a safer digital experience for individuals across the world.

Marketing without analytics is unthinkable today since analytics are the nexus between processes and technologies that enable marketers to evaluate the success of their marketing initiatives, providing invaluable assistance in driving marketing efforts forward.

Early this year, Singapore has passed the Cybersecurity Act that establishes a legal framework for the oversight and maintenance of national cybersecurity. Its key objectives are to strengthen the protection of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) against cyber-attacks and to establish a framework for sharing cybersecurity information.

Salesforce announced new innovations across marketing, commerce and service enabling brands worldwide to deliver smarter, more personalized and connected customer experiences. In addition, Salesforce and Google continued to deliver on their strategic partnership with new integrations between Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Google Analytics 360 becoming available. Salesforce is showcasing these innovations and more at Connections, where top brands gather to learn how they can deliver next-generation customer engagement.

If you want to find out how to manage tracking users despite e-privacy regulation and to bypass the new hurdles, keep reading.