9. Channel Management Will Be The New “Programmatic” Ad Agencies Still Stuck In 2011
Year in, year out, brand advertisers, agencies and adtech sales execs rave about programmatic display advertising and DSPs being the future of digital marketing. However, few actually have been outside their ivory tower in Singapore long enough to realize that “no-tail” has essentially killed off any promise of “programmatic” advertising in Southeast Asia outside of Singapore and Malaysia.
The real “programmatic” opportunity in Southeast Asia will be in e-commerce, not in display advertising. With the advent and fragmentation of online marketplaces, the challenge for brands will be to choose on which channels to be present and what products to push in each of these channels.
2016 will see the emergence and adoption of next-generation channel management platforms, which are essentially “e-commerce DSPs.” These products will help brands enable omni-channel retailing across all major marketplaces, while also offering traditional programmatic benefits such as a dynamic optimization engine and plug-and-play integration with multiple first- and third-party data sources for better targeting, personalization and optimization.