IAB Europe’s annual AdEx Benchmark survey – the definitive guide to the state of the European online advertising market – was released at IAB Europe’s Interact conference in Barcelona (May 23rd 2013). The AdEx Benchmark research revealed that online was the best performer in the advertising market with an overall growth of 11.5% in 2012…. Read more »
Knowledge Base
Mobile banking apps will be used by over one billion people by 2017
A lot of us are already using online banking but there’s a natural next step and that is mobile banking. A recent report from Juniper estimates that mobile banking users will exceed one billion in 2017 (about 15 percent of all mobile users), almost 19% of mobile banking customers will be using tablets when making… Read more »
Five Belgian nominees for IAB Europe Mixx Awards 2013
IAB Europe is delighted to announce this year’s shortlist for the MIXX Awards Europe 2013. The Awards received a record number of entries with a total of 234 cases and the jury nominated 3 cases per category. The winners of each category will be announced during the Awards Ceremony on the evening of the first… Read more »
Moving More Mobile
There has been a large amount of empirical evidence that consumers are moving in a mobile direction. Sales of laptops and desktops are declining while tablet and smart phone adoption continues to rise. WAP traffic is quickly catching up to standard online traffic. Cloud based programs such as Google Docs and Open Office advancing on… Read more »
Kimon Zorbas succeeds Alain Heureux as CEO of IAB Europe
IAB Europe has confirmed that Alain Heureux has decided to step-down from his role as CEO and President, handing the baton to long-time IAB Europe Vice President, Kimon Zorbas. The changes have been planned for some time and will give Alain Heureux the opportunity to focus on new professional challenges. “I am proud to be… Read more »
IAB US and MMA issues Mobile Creative Guidelines in line with IAB Belgium’s Standards
IAB US and the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) issue ‘Mobile Phone Creative Guidelines’ to reduce industry fragmentation and empower creatives. In the rapidly evolving mobile marketplace, there is heightened demand for standards and guidelines that unify the advertising industry and expand on current industry accepted ad units. In order to maintain consistency, the “Mobile Phone… Read more »
IAB-Belgium Whitepaper “Focus on Social” – March 2013
We’re living in a complex world. Not just ‘we’ as a consumer, but I mean ‘we’ as marketing, advertising and communication managers. Since the launch of IAB-Belgium 15 years ago, we are convinced that all marketing becomes digital. And today we’re at that point. The only thing we forget to say was that it would… Read more »
IAB Europe cautions Mozilla switching off a large part of European industries and undermining the openness of the internet
IAB Europe expresses disappointment that Mozilla’s new browser cookie settings, which will come into effect in early April, will block third party cookies by default. This move will switch off a significant part of the industry and undermine pan-European industry-wide efforts to empower Mozilla Firefox users through improved transparency and better choices about how to… Read more »
Do you wanna present your Social Case at IAB Think Social?
IAB Think Social is the first of 4 IAB Think Events in 2013 it will be . At IAB Think Social we will give you deeper insides on Social Media. No brief overview on the latest trends but speakers with a focus. The focus of the IAB Think Events are determined by a focus survey… Read more »
Tablets and Phablets at Mobile World Congress: The best, the rest, and the ‘Why’d they even bother?’
It was a much-improved showing, but ultimately failed to meet even my diminished expectations. The best Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 The latest iteration of Samsung’s Note line is an 8-inch stylus-accompanied tablet that doubles as a phone in non-U.S. markets. What I liked most: Its comfortable design and well-implemented S Pen software. What I liked… Read more »




