Nunatak helps numerous advertisers push ahead with the concept of in-housing. In addition to selecting the appropriate tech stack, their focus is on the questions surrounding which process steps advertisers should permanently implement in media buying and which expertise they should develop to do this. In our retrospective, we look back on what worked well and give an outlook on future developments.

More than 80 percent of digital advertising spending will be programmatic in 2021, as it has become a preferred method of purchasing. While on the one hand native advertising forms are receiving an ever-increasing budget, the native share of programmatic advertising expenditure is only 3 percent. In their masterclass, Reza Najib and Tom Kattermann will present reasons for the current native boom and also explain how advertisers can use the harmonious effects of native and programmatic to take their digital campaigns to a new level.

Global privacy laws like the GDPR and impending ePrivacy Regulation are creating new challenges for marketers. New consent rules require marketers to rethink the way they interact with users. How can you deliver on-brand privacy notices? What are innovative ways to approach cookies and consent to increase opt-in rates? In this session, we’ll answer these questions, review marketing compliance requirements around legitimate interest, consent, cookies and ad tech and provide thought-provoking examples of new ways to think about compliance to maximise user opt-in in the GDPR era.

• Understand legitimate interest vs. consent for marketing purposes
• Learn best practices for maximizing opt-in and consent
• Guidance to build an effective and GDPR-compliant marketing strategy

How can you optimize your programmatic setup? What technologies yield the best results? What are the decisive factors in viewability and ad verification? Experts from publishers have asked these questions and will explain their current solutions. Participants are invited to ask questions and talk about their own experiences. Only publishers and marketers can participate.

In recent years, numerous approaches have been developed for analyzing and using user journey (UJ) data to optimize display advertising, in particular, recurrent neural networks (RNNs). The talk covers the basics of RNNs and explains why they are ideal for UJ analysis.