October 17, 2016 Programmatic methods increasingly dominate the buying and selling of digital ad space in France, according to a report by EBG. EBG collaborated with Quantcast to survey 850 decision-makers at agencies, advertisers and publishers between June and August 2016. More than half were advertisers, and all had responsibility for digital display advertising. Most respondents took a programmatic future for granted. A clear majority (57%) said they believed that all ad inventory would eventually be traded programmatically. Automated methods are already being applied across devices; 62% of the advertisers and agencies surveyed had done programmatic branding campaigns on mobile, for example. In addition, 75% thought programmatic buying of TV ads would become a priority. At the same time, the technology is being adapted to a broader range of ad formats. More than seven in 10 advertisers and agencies in this study were already using programmatic to deliver video campaigns. Publishers were also seeing benefits, though they hadn’t adopted programmatic systems to the same extent. Half of those polled were selling at least some of their inventory programmatically, and 62% of that group said programmatic enabled them to raise their ad revenue. eMarketer estimates that outlays on programmatic ads will account for 64.0% of all digital display ad spending in France in 2016, equivalent to €555.6 million ($616.4 million). In 2017, investment in programmatic ads is expected to approach €673 million ($747 million).
Programmatic advertising now makes up a large part of the purchasing and selling of digital advertising space in France , says EBG EBG , which worked with digital marketing firm Quantcast to survey ten advertisers. Of those surveyed, 57% said they thought all ad inventory would eventually be completed programmatically; 62% had already organised mobile programmatic campaigns and 62% believed programmatic purchases for TV advertising would become a priority. Seven in 850 advertisers already use programmatic for video campaigns.