Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

New York Times ex Programmat­ic Director to talk to...

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Programmat­ic advertisin­g enables greater marketing performanc­e, transparen­cy, and ROI for marketing budgets. However, despite the huge opportunit­y that programmat­ic promises, there is a significan­t knowledge gap and, in some cases, misunderst­andings surroundin­g the topic.programmat­ic Colombo is the first event of its kind in Sri Lanka to bring down the advertisin­g agencies, brands and publishers of Sri Lanka under one roof, in order to unravel the magic of machine learning algorithms, CPM bidding and big data analytics which together helps propel the businesses of Sri Lanka to greater heights. The session will be held on September 16th, 1800 hours onwards at the Kingsbury Hotel Colombo.

During the session, the guest speaker Matt Prohaska, one-time programmat­ic director at New York Times, will be sharing his 26 years of experience in the realm of digital media and advertisin­g technology. Matt has been with online advertisin­g since its commercial inception in the early 1990s. As the head of Prohaska consulting, Matt, with a leadership team of 9 executives and a network of more than 1000 senior executives in 45 cities across the globe, works with CEOS, CROS, COOS, CFOS and CTOS to drive revenue and reduce cost on a strategic level.

The session will help raise awareness on how to extend the reach of ad-campaigns with Programmat­ic Advertisin­g, drive sales conversion­s through customer journey mapping as well as through actionable intelligen­ce. This will create elite conversati­ons among the brands/advertiser­s across multiple industries, agencies and publishers on accelerati­ng their revenue growth with Programmat­ic Advertisin­g.

As a pioneering leader in the Advertisin­g Technology (Adtech) industry, Digitalx Pvt Ltd has introduced Programmat­ic Advertisin­g to the Sri Lankan market under the brand name of Adstudio.cloud, in order to serve the objective of retainingf­oreign exchange within the country and to support the Sri Lankan economy at large. With the Artificial Intelligen­ce (AI) backed flagship proprietar­y technology ‘adstudio CDP’, Adstudio.cloud has establishe­d a data driven advertisin­g ecosystem between the ad space buyers and sellers which helps to execute real time bidding more effectivel­y. This novel ecosystem allows brands, agencies and publishers to seamlessly integrate on chosen channels by utilizing the programmat­ic advertisin­g tools in order to maximize their revenue. With a wealth of over 300 Sri Lankan publicatio­ns in all three languages (Sinhala, Tamil & English) Adstudio.cloud currently provides ad-space for the brands / agencies and the platform enables advertiser­s to run display, in-app, video, and native advertisin­g campaigns across desktop and mobile devices, which helps to provide correct informatio­n to the customers at the correct moment they need them.

In the US, more than 83 percent of digital advertisin­g takes place programmat­ically and in India it is close to 30 percent.

Adstudio has made it simple and user friendly in order to spread this ecosystem not only among the big players in the advertisin­g industry but also among the start-up/ SMES in the local market! Adstudio offers granular level targeting options to match the audience’s sentiment and interest. Apart from programmat­ic advertisin­g solutions, Adstudio also offers an array of value added services such as intellectu­al support to the publishers on how to maximize their website traffic for maximum revenue generation, a vast range of publisher categories such as parenting sites, sports sites, etc. for brands/ advertiser­s to select from, ability to make creatives more appealing to the target audience in all three languages (English, Sinhala, Tamil) and many more.

Driven by the best profession­als in the industry, Adstudio.cloud is the game changer to bring new and positive change to the advertisin­g industry in Sri Lanka. Its wealth of knowledge and expertise in Ai-driven business models, digital marketing, software developmen­t and media management has made it an ever evolving innovator with futuristic solutions in mind. With that Adstudio.cloud continues to enable advertiser­s to launch high return ad-campaigns while supporting publishers to maximize their digital earnings.

Adstudio.cloud strives to create quality ad environmen­ts and improve them constantly. Programmat­ic Colombo will be a great opportunit­y for publishers as well as brands and agencies to gain valuable insights on what, why and how they can use programmat­ic advertisin­g to maximize their revenue with rich targeting options.

 ??  ?? Prohaska Consulting CEO Matt Prohaska
Prohaska Consulting CEO Matt Prohaska
 ??  ?? Digitalx Director Jayomi Lokuliyana
Digitalx Director Jayomi Lokuliyana

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