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Closing the programmatic gap
The changing digital advertising
ecosystem in Germany
Closing the programmatic gap | The changing digital advertising ecosystem in Germany                    Closing the programmatic gap | The changing digital advertising ecosystem in Germany

                                                                                       Executive
Executive Summary                                                               3
Programmatic in Germany on the rise?                                            4
Consolidation everywhere?

                                                                                       Summary
How to navigate the heterogeneous
ecosystem                                                                       7
The hunt for data, analytics and
real-time technology                                                         10
Play to win – Leverage audiences and
scale (together?)                                                            12        Players have to act rapidly to win in a fast-changing
Glossary                                                                     14        environment
                                                                                       The programmatic market in Germany                analytics capabilities and real-time enabling
End notes                                                                    15        is expected to kick off and to grow to            technology stacks. Those capabilities are
                                                                                       EUR 2.8 bn by 2019, offering a significant        set to be acquired externally. Cooperation
                                                                                       market opportunity. New players enter             across Media Houses and other players in
                                                                                       a dynamic market dominated up to now              the ecosystem could be a lever against the
                                                                                       by hot shots like Google and Facebook. In         two advertising heavyweights, but the win-
                                                                                       order to succeed, traditional Media Houses        dow of opportunity is closing fast. Telcos
                                                                                       and Telcos have to seize the current              and Media Houses have to act quickly to
                                                                                       opportunity to capitalize on the tremen-          capture their value share in programmatic.
                                                                                       dous data assets via a combination of

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Programmatic in
Germany on the rise?
Programmatic advertising is the current hype in advertising,
and a shift towards trading inventory programmatically has a
tremendous impact on the advertising market.

                                            Looking abroad (but here in Germany too),
                                            a strong tandem has crystalized. Digital
                                                                                            The German market is                           Fig. 1 – Programmatic maturity across markets

                                            advertising is increasingly dominated by        behind the US/UK markets                                            Uncertainty                               Development                                      Maturity
                                            walled-garden players like Google and
                                            Facebook, and these players are writing
                                                                                            by two to three years.                         Regions

                                            a unique success story (for example,            Looking over to the US the market is
                                            Facebook’s advertising revenue grew             significantly ahead in the development of      APAC & LATAM                                    Germany, France & Rest of Europe                UK, USA
                                            from USD 11.5 bn to USD 17 bn in 2015,          the mobile advertising landscape. Mobile       Typical duration
                                            driven mainly by advertising via mobile         digital advertising spending overtook online   1–2 years                                       2–3 years                                       2–3 years
                                            devices). The reasons for their success are     spending in 2015, reaching USD 32 bn
                                            rather simple. Firstly, both players have a     (online USD 28 bn) according to eMarketeri.    Activity

                                            vast set of customer data. Due to log-ins,      Programmatic already dominates display         The first phase of development in               As the market matures programmatic              In mature markets the mutual benefit of
                                            the information they have about their           advertising buying and with regard             programmatics is characterised by a             expands to more channels (esp. mobile           programmatics is firmly established.
                                                                                                                                           disorderly market with very low CPMs.           and video). A greater variety of measure-       Offerings across all channels are deve-
                                            audiences and individual users is a real        to mobile, the programmatic share is
                                                                                                                                           Multinationals enter as one of the first        ment tools becomes available and                loped and programmatic is leading in
                                            advantage. Secondly, they have developed        already at almost 70 %ii. The top three        players and companies with quantitative         volumes of premium inventory traded             non-customized content. Players can
                                            of corresponding analytics capabilities         walled gardens (Facebook, Google and           offerings develop fast. Publishers hesita-      programmatically grow significantly.            execute campaigns across platforms
                                            to turn this data into real insights and        Twitter) have made up over 43 % of digital     te primarily as they fear cannibalization       Programmatic Direct may also act as             and also carry out brand ad-
                                            thirdly they have all this backed by a strong   advertising spending in the USiii.             of existing products. Private exchanges         a temporary arrangement.                        vertising.
                                                                                                                                           are just starting to develop and thus
                                            technology base.
                                                                                                                                           have low liquidity.

                                            Facebook and Google                                                                            Source: Deloitte analysis

                                            capture half of the digital
                                            advertising market
                                            So the question is: will Facebook and
                                            Google be the only winners or can
                                            traditional Media Houses (and others) with
                                            their various online and mobile activities
                                            compete successfully in the German
                                            market?

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                                                      Abb. 4 – 2,5(10) -spaltig, Breite 154,417 mm
                                                      Abb. 4 – 2,5(10) -spaltig, Breite 154,417 mm                        •La Place Media is a JV of five of France’s biggest media players
                                                                                                                         ••Audience
                                                                                                                           La         Square
                                                                                                                              Place Media   is is a cooperation
                                                                                                                                               a JV               between
                                                                                                                                                    of five of France’s     eleven
                                                                                                                                                                        biggest    French
                                                                                                                                                                                media     media
                                                                                                                                                                                      players
                                                                                                                           houses (incl. Les Echos, M6 Group, Group Le Monde)
                                                                                                                         • Audience Square is a cooperation between eleven French media
                                                      Fig. 2 – Programmatic share of display advertising across            houses
                                                                                                                      selected     (incl. Les Echos, M6 Group, Group Le Monde)
                                                                                                                                markets

                                                                                                                                                                                     Consolidation
The situation is quite similar in the UK.             Fig. 2 – Programmatic share of display advertising across selected markets
Digital mobile advertising spending is
expected to overtake online in 2016iv.
                                                           US (in %)               UK (in %)       DE (in %)

                                                                                                                                                                                     everywhere?
                                                           US (in %)               UK (in %)       DE (in %)
Compared to those impressive numbers,
                                                                                          70
both mobile and programmatic are still
                                                                   64                    70
behind in Germany (mobile accounting
                                                                   64
for 31 % of digital advertising spending in
2015) but potentially catching up in 2017v.                                       49                      49
Total programmatic share is at ~23 % but                   45                     49                      49                                                                         How to navigate in the heterogeneous
we expect the programmatic share also to                   45
                                                                                                                                                                                     ecosystem
catch up in the next three to four years.
                                                                                                   23                                                                              Consolidation everywhere? The programmatic market
However, we see the German market at
                                                                                                   23                                                                              is highly dynamic and many players (traditional Media
an inflection point now with significant
                                                                                                                                                                                   Houses and new entrants) see their chance by eng-
growth potential projected for the coming
                                                                                                                                                                                   aging in programmatic and securing their portion of
years. The German programmatic market
                                                         2015
                                                      Abb.   4 – 2,5(10)        2015Breite
                                                                   2019 -spaltig,      2019154,417 2015
                                                                                                      mm 2019                                                                      the above-described opportunity. However, as the
is expected to grow by 39 % p.a. by 2019,             Abb.   4 – 2,5(10)
                                                         2015      2019 -spaltig,
                                                                                2015Breite
                                                                                       2019154,4172015
                                                                                                    mm 2019                                                                        market matures, players will have to reap economies of
to EUR 2.8 bn and thus catching up with                                                                                • La Place Media is a JV of five of France’s biggest media players
                                                      Abb. 4 – 2,5(10) -spaltig, Breite 154,417 mm                     • Audience Square is a cooperation between eleven French    scale  to stay profitable and a consolidation process will
                                                                                                                                                                                      media
the US and UK markets, creating significant           Source: Deloitte analysis
                                                                                                                         houses (incl. Les Echos, M6 Group, Group Le Monde) set in. Possessing unique data assets such as log-ins is
opportunities for all players the share of            Fig. 3 –Deloitte
                                                      Source:  Programmatic
                                                                        analysis advertising market DE across selected regions
                                                      Fig. 2 – Programmatic share of display advertising across selected markets                                                   decisive in such an environment as it enables players
mobile could increase significantly, reading          Fig. 3 – Programmatic advertising market across selected regions
                                                                                                                                                                                   to occupy niche markets in the ecosystem. The mere
~37-59 %vi.
                                                               US (in B€)                  UK (in B€)                   DE (in B€)                                                 accumulation of inventory on its own is not as critical
                                                                                                                                                                                   for building complete and universal data sets around
Programmatic in Germany is expected to                      USUS(in (in
                                                                     %) B€)
                                                                          29,4 UK (in %)UK (in B€)DE (in %)             DE (in B€)
                                                                                                                                                                                   customers and audiences.
                                                                CAGR
kick off since Media Houses have overcome                       +33%
                                                                          29,4 47%
their reluctance:                                               CAGR
                                                            9,5 +33%             47% 70
                                                           Existing64collaborations
                                                            9,5                                      3,3                                                                           Abb. 4 – 2,5(10) -spaltig, Breite 154,417 mm
                                                           Emerging
                                                           Existing
                                                           69%           collaborations
                                                                       collaborations                                                                                              Fig. 4 – Programmatic value chain
•• Media Houses understand that                                                                      3,3                   2,8            2,8                                                                                                      • La Place Media is a JV of five of France’s biggest media players
                                                           No identified
                                                           Emerging
                                                           69%               collaborations
                                                                         collaborations
   programmatically traded inventory
                                                                                          CAGR      43%                    2,8            2,8                                                                                                      • Audience Square is a cooperation between eleven French media
                                                           No identified          49
                                                                             collaborations
                                                                                          +34%            49                             41%
   must not necessarily be cheaper than                    45             53%             CAGR      43%
                                                                                                                 CAGR
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     houses (incl. Les Echos, M6 Group, Group Le Monde)
                                                                                          +34%
                                                                                                                 +39%
                                                                                                                          63%
                                                                          53%                                    CAGR                    41%
   inventory sold directly                                 31%                                                   +39%
                                                                                                                          63%                                                      Fig. 2 – Programmatic    share
                                                                                                                                                                                                       Maturity   of display
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Media  advertising
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Agency     across selected  markets Marketer                 Media house
                                                                                        1,0                                                      +/– 22%
•• (Supply-) technology has become mature,                 31%                                      57%        0,8
                                                                                        1,0
                                                                                       77%                                               59% +/– 22%
                                                                                                    57%
                                                                                                     23        0,8
                                                                                                              88%         37%
   allowing not only for auction-based deals                                                                                             59%                                                                                                                              Print                  Print
                                                                                       77% 23%                       12%
                                                                                                                          37%                                                           Print
   (as in early days) but also for private deals                                                              88%                                                                        US (in %)          UK (in %)          DE (in %)                                marketer             publisher
                                                          2015            2019        2015 23% 2019           2015 12% 2019A            2019B
   as well as other forms of transaction
                                                          2015           2019          2015       2019         2015           2019A       2019B                                                                        70
•• The industry has developed a commonly-                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Radio                 Radio
                                                         2015                                                                                                                            Radio 64
                                                         Online2019               2015 2019      2015 2019                                                                                                                                                             marketer              station
   used set of standards (OpenRTB
   standards from IAB), making it easier to               Mobile
                                                          Online
   integrate with the ecosystem                          Mobile
                                                      Source: Deloitte analysis                                                                                                                               49                        49
                                                      Source: Deloitte analysis
                                                                                                                                                                                           TV
                                                                                                                                                                                          45              Advertiser         Agencies                                                      TV station        1
                                                      Source: Deloitte analysis                                                                                                                                                                                                       2
                                                                                                                                                                                         Out of                                                                                               OoH
                                                                                                                                                                                         home                                    23                                                        inventory

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Digital
                                                                                                                                                                                         Digital                                3            DSP         Exchange          SSP
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           inventory
                                                          Existing collaborations                                                                                                        2015 2019               2015 2019      2015 2019
                                                          Emerging collaborations                                                                                                                                                                             4
                                                          No identified collaborations
                                                                                                                                                                                     Source: Deloitte analysis                                                     5
                                                                                                                                                                                     Source: Deloitte analysis
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The ecosystem is                                       3 Agencies move downstream into                                                                 Norwegian’s Telenor acquired Tapad, a

characterized by five                                    AdTech models                                    Verizon absorbs                              cross-device re-targeting provider, to               Ströer’s shopping
key developments.                                     Agencies on the other side of the table
                                                                                                          former Internet                              “take a position within the rapidly growing
                                                                                                                                                       market for advertising technology, and
                                                                                                                                                                                                            spree
                                                      move down the value chain by building               icons                                        secure important competence within digital
1 Media Houses consolidate inventory                  their own DSPs (trading desks). Recently,                                                        marketing and analytics”.                            Ströer acquired a number of
  – size matters!                                     they also moved towards data by acquiring                                                                                                             players with considerable
                                                                                                          With the acquisitions of AOL and
                                                      or setting up DMPs. Some examples                                                                Cable operator Comcast recently                      inventory assets on its way to
                                                                                                          Yahoo, Verizon followed an
During the consolidation phase over the               (to name but a few): GroupM, who                                                                 announced it would acquire StickyAds.                achieving 50% of its revenues in
                                                                                                          aggressive expansionary
last three to four years we saw several               launched Xaxis as a trading desk, acquired                                                       tv, a French video SSP, to integrate it into         the digital sector. In November
                                                                                                          approach to boost its digital
moves of Media Houses to acquire new                  exchangelab Meta-DSP and launched                                                                Comcast’s subsidiary Freewheel.                      2015 the company purchased
                                                                                                          advertising business. Both targets
inventory. Axel Springer for example                  Turbine DMP. Omnicom launched Accuen                                                                                                                  t-online.de and Interactive Media
                                                                                                          failed to deliver on their promise
significantly increased its digital reach             (DSP) and annalect (DMP). Vivaki acquired                                                        The most recognized big bangs however                from Deutsche Telekom for about
                                                                                                          as Internet hopefuls in the
via acquisitions. Key rationale was to                RUN (DSP/DMP).                                                                                   have been Verizon’s acquisition of AOL               EUR 300 mn and took over online
                                                                                                          post-2000s, instead being
manage the transition from traditional                                                                                                                 and Yahoo in order to enter the digital              marketer OMS in January 2016xiii.
                                                                                                          overtaken by Google and
media towards digital. Ströer followed                 4 Programmatic players consolidate                                                              advertising scene. Verizon’s vision is to            At that time OMS had more than
                                                                                                          Facebook. When Verizon
a similar path and by acquiring OMS                      or add cross-channel capabilities                                                             leverage the big data assets of mobile               28 million unique users, thus
                                                                                                          announced the takeover of AOL
and Interactive Media brought together                                                                                                                 users (including name, address and often             bringing together the largest
                                                                                                          for USD 4.4 bn in May 2015,
the largest German online reach. The                  Players of the first programmatic hour,                                                          enough credit card data) via AOL’s and               German online reachxiv.
                                                                                                          analysts commented that the
T-online acquisition was beneficial for               namely DSPs and SSPs, are starting to                                                            Yahoo’s inventory and based on their
                                                                                                          main driver behind the deal was
Ströer especially with regard to acquiring            struggle and consolidate horizontally. Some                                                      technology stack.
                                                                                                          “not so much the content as
additional Inventory. Mediahouses have                US players are already reconsidering their                                                                                                        Thus data becomes the new ecosystem
                                                                                                          having a platform for
thus significantly enhanced their inventory           sales approach in Europe and streamlining                                                        What are currently the winning                   currency and therefore a variety of players
                                                                                                          programmatic [advertising].”xi
base. They will have to navigate further              operations in order to increase profitability.                                                   business models?                                 have evolved with the aim of monetizing
                                                                                                          Verizon’s recent acquisition of
challenges in programmatic, however,                                                                                                                                                                    data by making it programmatically
                                                                                                          Yahoo (July 2016, USD 4.8 bn)
as the winning business models in the                 Additionally, some DSPs saw acquisitions                                                         The entire value chain was historically          accessible (e.g., DMPs, data market places).
                                                                                                          occurred in much the same
ecosystem will be based on identifying and            as a way to build the relevant capabilities                                                      inventory-focused. However, since media
                                                                                                          spiritxii: not only did the company
communicating with specific, advertiser-              and position for cross-device and multi-                                                         buyers are shifting to buying audiences and
                                                                                                          thus obtain considerable tech and
requested audience segments.                          channel. Sizmek, for example, acquired                                                           users rather than bulk inventories, data is
                                                                                                          reach assets but, more
                                                      StrikeAd to acquire mobile capabilities.                                                         becoming more important. Recent efforts
                                                                                                          importantly, valuable customer
2 Media Houses expand upstream                                                                                                                         to streamline the programmatic workflow
                                                                                                          data and new audiences.
  into AdTech businesses                              Consolidation, especially on DSP side, will                                                      therefore shift to targeting precision.
                                                                                                          Especially log-in and email data
                                                      further accelerate and assume that there
                                                                                                          (particularly available in the case
The emergence of several players along                is room for only three to five large global                                                      Due to this shift, players who only enable
                                                                                                          of AOL) allow for effective
the programmatic value chain led to                   players in the field. Only real integrated                                                       the programmatic process technologically
                                                                                                          targeting in digital/ programmatic
smaller profits on the media house side. In           AdTech stacks are expected to survive.                                                           (e.g., DSPs/SSPs) will have to fight for their
                                                                                                          advertising.
traditional media, Media Houses received                                                                                                               value share. Data will be the key to creating
approximately 70 cents in the euro spent               5 New entrants enter the                                                                        value and players who will be able to
on advertising. In programmatic days, their              programmatic field                            sellers directly, while reducing the role of    monetize data (either by providing access
profit decreased to 40 cents vii.                                                                      intermediaries. Adobe has also announced        to a unique data asset or by being the
                                                      As already mentioned, programmatic               it will integrate advertising technology into   nodal marketplace for data) will be the new
Media Houses want to recapture some                   advertising has become a playground for          their Adobe Marketing Cloud. Other tech-        heavyweights in the ecosystem.
of the lost value and move up the value               various companies. Many players who were         nology companies have already climbed
chain. RTL for example acquired video                 not originally active in the media area have     the advertising Olympus. IBM IX is already      And although almost everyone in the
SSP SpotXchange. Sky recently acquired                entered the market.                              considered the largest online agency viii.      market agrees that data might add a
a significant stake in DataXu, one of the                                                                                                              benefit to the targeting process, so far no
large international DSPs to prepare for               SAP, for example, has expanded its enter-        Telecommunications players have also            one is really able to measure the added
programmatic in TV. ProSiebenSat.1 aims               prise software solutions towards a full-scale    entered the stage. In Germany, Deutsche         value. However, there are some data points
to develop an integrated AdTech stack and             integrated end-to-end advertising stack          Telekom partnered with several Media            that underline the value that data adds to
invest in players in the ecosystem via their          under the SAP XM (eXchange Media) brand.         Houses to build emetriq, forming the strate-    the bidding process. We assume that CPM
subsidiary Virtual Minds (together with               The idea is to enable a new digital advertis-    gic cooperation to build a shared marketing     for data-enriched impressions increased by
United Internet).                                     ing buying model that connects buyers and        data pool.                                      a factor 1.5 to non-enriched impressions.

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The hunt for data,
analytics and real-time
technology
The consolidation patterns described follow a simple logic. Players
want to combine capabilities in order to create a picture of their
specific customer or audience that is as complete as possible.

                                             The key capabilities that players are          players have positioned themselves for         capabilities. Increasing segmentation        technology partners, using more                    Media Houses in particular are strategically
                                             currently hunting for are data, analytics,     the data game. Stand-alone DMPs, for           capabilities (backed by the corresponding    comprehensive, people-based targeting              well-positioned to exploit the advantages
                                             and real-time capabilities backed by broad     example, have entered the scene and are        data sets) will permit targeting the         methods, and increasingly demanding                of their existing portfolios. Telcos, too,
                                             inventory reach.                               allowing advertisers to use their own first-   advertiser’s focal audiences. As the next    services across all devices and channels.          can be expected to profit, thanks to their
                                                                                            party data. They also allow advertisers to     evolutionary step, customer insights         Fully integrated players who combine               considerable mobile inventory.
                                                      Data as a prerequisite for the        ingest and use third-party data purchased      analytics will find their way into the       the success factors across the full
                                                      complete view on the customer         from external data providers and thus          programmatic process since Media Houses      programmatic spectrum (multi-channel and           Data, analytic capabilities, real-time
                                                                                            more and more are developing towards           are beginning to monetize their audiences.   cross-device, performance measurement,             integration and inventory are thus the
                                             Data is the key to targeting success and       data marketplaces. Agencies also have                                                       attribution services) will have a competitive      four key elements for success in the
                                             access to / control over valuable customer     acquired or established their own DMPs                Technical integration and             advantage. Niche players will leave the            programmatic ecosystem. Bundling these
                                             data is a game-changing asset. More            and even DSPs and SSPs are also trying to             real-time                             market, either by being acquired or by             capabilities will allow players to step
                                             than 50 % of the respondents to an IAB         differentiate by setting-up DMP offerings.                                                  being squeezed out.                                beyond generating data to create customer
                                             survey answered that they had already          However, only stand-alone DMPs have a          Needless to say: programmatic advertising                                                       insights.
                                             realized a “tangible competitive advantage     clear (and inventory-agnostic) proposition.    is a real-time game and the best data and            Inventory as a lever for
                                             through [their] use of data in marketing and                                                  analytics capabilities are useless if not            increased reach
                                             advertising”. Almost the same proportion               Analytics capabilities (“Data +”)      made usable/accessible for programmatic
                                             of respondents mentioned that they were                to generate customer insights          with real-time APIs. An integrated tech      In addition to the three innovative
                                             satisfied with the value realized by first-            will be the real value driver          stack reduces the technological complexity   capabilities described above, Media Houses
                                             party data while third-party data is lagging                                                  for all potential partners.                  expand their inventory base since scale
                                             behindx.                                       Data is the basis for targeting success.       And with regard to technology platforms,     is becoming more and more important.
                                                                                            However, pure data injection also has to       the days of niche players are numbered.      Other business models in the ecosystem
                                             Different business models have emerged         prove the value it contributes. Central        Advertisers are increasingly striving        require a broad advertising reach across a
                                             around a data proposition and different        to success are the underlying analytics        to reduce the number of advertising          variety of channels.

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Closing the programmatic gap | The changing digital advertising ecosystem in Germany                                                                                                                                                                                         Existingdigital
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Closing the programmatic gap | The changing  collaborations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             advertising ecosystem in Germany
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Emerging collaborations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   No identified collaborations

                                                                                                                                                                  Fig. 5 – Publisher cooperations                                                                                     • La Place Media is a JV of some of France’s
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        biggest media players
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Audience Square is a cooperation between
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        eleven French media houses (incl. Les Echos,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        M6 Group, Group Le Monde)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • AdAudience is a JV between G+J EMS,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Forward AdGroup, IP Deutschland, iq digital
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Existing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        media, Media Impact,    OMS collaborations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     and SevenOne
                                                                                                                                                                  Abb. 4 – 2,5(10) -spaltig, Breite 154,417 mm                                                                          Media. The partnership was expanded and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Emerging     collaborations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        the Intelligent Data Alliance was founded
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   • La Place Media is a JV of five of France’s biggest media   players
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        with xplosion     No identified
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       interactive. Deutschecollaborations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Telekom’s
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   • Audience Square is a cooperation between eleven    newly  founded
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           French   mediasubsidiary emetriq aims to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     houses (incl. Les Echos, M6 Group, Group Le Monde) market Germany’s largest pool of data
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • La Place Media is a JV of some of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Danish Publishers Network is a collaboration
                                                                                                                                                                  Fig. 2 – Programmatic share of display advertising across selected markets                                                                 biggest media players
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        platform between premium publishers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Audience Square is a cooperation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Pangaea is a digital advertising alliance
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               eleven French     media houses (incl
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        of the Guardian, Financial  Times, CNN
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               M6 Group,     Group Le Monde)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        International, Reuters and others

Play to win –
                                                                                                                                                                        US (in %)              UK (in %)        DE (in %)                                                                                    • platform
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • 1XL is a collaboration AdAudience     is a JV30between G+J EM
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         between
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        local media groups Forward AdGroup, IP Deutschland
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               media, Media Impact, OMS and Se
                                                                                                                                                                                                     70                                                                               • Cpex is a collaborationMedia.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 platform
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Thebetween
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            partnership was expan
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        six premium publishers the Intelligent Data Alliance was fo
                                                                                                                                                                                   64

Leverage audiences
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • The 10 largest Finnishwith xplosion
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               publishers   interactive. Deutsche
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          recently
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        founded a cooperation newly  founded
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                to market theirsubsidiary emetriq
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        inventory together market Germany’s largest pool of d
                                                                                                                                                                                              49                       49                                                                                   • Danish  Publishers Network is a co
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Aunia, a collaboration platform  was
                                                                                                                                                                        45                                                                                                              formed with a focus onplatform  between premium publis
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                online video
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        advertising

and scale (together?)
                                                                                                                                                       Source: Deloitte analysis
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Pangaea is a digital advertising al
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • The Premium Publisher’s   Network
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               of the        (PPN) Financial Times,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Guardian,
                                                                                                                                                       Fig. 5 – Publisher cooperations                                                                                                  was launched in 2014 International,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               and features the Reuters and others
                                                                                                                                                                                                               23                                                                       inventory of 24MEDIA, DPG Digital Media,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • 1XL is a collaboration platform be
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Olive Media and Adweb
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               local media groups
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Project Agora is a publisher coalition led
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        by ad-tech company• TailWind
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Cpex isbringing
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       a collaboration platform b
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        together Greek and Romanian publishers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               six premium publishers
In order to win against digital heavyweights like                                                                                                                     2015 2019               2015 2019       2015 2019                                                                                  • The 10 largest Finnish publishers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Existing collaborations
Google and Facebook, the German players will have to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       founded a cooperation to market
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Emerging collaborations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           inventory together

reconsider how to compete.                                                                                                                                        Source: Deloitte analysis                                                                                                  No identified collaborations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         • Aunia, a collaboration platform w
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               formed with a focus on online vid
                                                                                                                                                                  Source: Deloitte analysis                                                                                                                    advertising
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 • La Place Media is a JV of some of France’s
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   biggest •media
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               The Premium
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     players Publisher’s Network
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 • Audience was     launched
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Square          in 2014 and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        is a cooperation      feature
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             between
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               inventory
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   eleven French     media ofhouses
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              24MEDIA,  DPG
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     (incl.  LesDigital
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Echo
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   M6 Group,OliveGroupMedia  and Adweb
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Le Monde)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           • Project Agora is a publisher coaliti
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 • AdAudience  byisad-tech
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    a JV between
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            companyG+JTailWind
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       EMS,       brin
The current programmatic market situation             customers. With the analytics capabilities      important first mover advantages. Acquisi-                  such alliances have to create a combined             that enable them to leverage their data                                     Forward AdGroup,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               together IP  Deutschland,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Greek             iq digital
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 and Romanian       pu
allows solvent players to gain a foothold,            gained, Media Houses can leverage for           tions of existing programmatic players are                  pool of audience data to benefit from                asset and develop a broad technological                                     media, Media Impact, OMS and SevenOne
                                                                                                                                                                       Existing collaborations                                                                                                     Media. The partnership was expanded and
typically through M&A. It is essential for            example DMPs to uncover audience seg-           thus a viable alternative for solvent players.              different  partner audiences. Secondly, it           footprint in the ecosystem.
                                                                                                                                                                       Emerging   collaborations                                                                                                   the Intelligent Data Alliance was founded
all players to act rapidly, as the window of          ments with significant market value. Also                                                                   is essential that the
                                                                                                                                                                       No identified    analytic capabilities to
                                                                                                                                                                                      collaborations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   with xplosion interactive. Deutsche Telekom’s
                                                                                                      3 Cooperation as alternative to M&A -                                                                                                                                                        newly founded subsidiary emetriq aims to
opportunity is closing fast. The intelligent          players with a data-driven understanding                                                                    deduce audience segments and provide                 Thus in order to (re-)capture some value                                    market Germany’s largest pool of data
use of existing customer data to identify             of their customers are set to benefit. They       Telcos in a key position                                  audience insights be built up. Furthermore,          in programmatic and address the large
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 • Danish Publishers Network is a collaboration
relevant audiences for certain campaigns              can make audiences - potentially enriched                                                                   the cooperation should build the required            market opportunity, Telcos and media                                        platform between premium publishers
will be a key task in order to survive in the         with third-party data - accessible for adver-   A prime example of the inorganic approach                   technology stack together, leverage a mutu-          players should immediately start the M&A
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 • Pangaea is a digital advertising alliance
market. Media Houses must therefore                   tisers as a new sales opportunity. The care-    described is Verizon. With the acquisition                  al data management platform to share and             game and monitor the start-up scene to                                      of the Guardian, Financial Times, CNN
overcome their reluctance and engage in               ful analysis of marketers buying inventory      of Yahoo and AOL, Verizon is set to become                  access the data pool to make it accessible           identify the technology nuggets that add                                    International, Reuters and others
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 • 1XL is a collaboration platform between 30
the programmatic game.                                on an audience basis through exchanges          an important player in programmatic                         for advertisers. Lastly, it is critical that play-   the required capabilities. Both Telcos and                                  local media groups
                                                      and sell-side platforms (SSPs) helps media      advertising. However, the circumstances                     ers and platforms cooperate with external            Media Houses are very well positioned to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 • Cpex is a collaboration platform between
1 Media Houses need to develop the                    Houses uncover new opportunities with a         surrounding deals like this – a solvent,                    data providers to enrich their own data and          play key role in the market – and they have                                 six premium publishers
  360° view on their customers                        programmatic strategy.                          dominant Telco and large Internet players                   deduce relevant segments.                            to start immediately, to take advantage of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 • The 10 largest Finnish publishers recently
                                                                                                      with substantial tech capabilities – are not                                                                     the window of opportunity.                                                  founded a cooperation to market their
Media Houses have to realize the value of             2 To build or to buy? M&A as entry              given in Germany.                                         Thinking beyond publisher cooperation,                                                                                             inventory together
their customer data as their most valuable              into programmatic                                                                                       Telcos could play a nodal role and could                                                                                         • Aunia, a collaboration platform was
asset by implementing the necessary cus-                                                              Scale is nevertheless an important factor                 become key players as they are very well                                                                                           formed with a focus on online video
                                                                                                                                                       Source: Deloitte analysis                                                                                                                   advertising
tomer analytics capabilities. Implementing            Realizing the above-described capabilities      and cooperation is an opportunity for Ger-                positioned to drive the programmatic inte-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 • The Premium Publisher’s Network (PPN)
for instance data management platforms                through an organic build-up of the nec-         man players, data providers, and platforms                gration game. They own a tremendous data
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   was launched in 2014 and features the
or big data capabilities is an important              essary department is a long and arduous         to create a nodal German heavyweight                      asset and have a transactional relationship                                                                                        inventory of 24MEDIA, DPG Digital Media,
step in this direction. It enables them to            task. Media Houses that plan on entering        against the likes of Google and Facebook.                 with their customers. Telcos could seize                                                                                           Olive Media and Adweb
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 • Project Agora is a publisher coalition led
connect insights across all customer touch-           programmatic will not have the time to          A number of considerations are however                    the opportunity to enter the market by                                                                                             by ad-tech company TailWind bringing
points and to create the 360° view of their           complete this process if they are to realize    essential for effective cooperation. Firstly,             identifying and acquiring the tech nuggets                                                                                         together Greek and Romanian publishers

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Glossary                                                                                                                                    End-Notes
Ad exchange                       Technology platform enabling automated trading of bid requests                                            i
                                                                                                                                             eMarketer: “Digital Ad Spending to Surpass   vi
                                                                                                                                                                                                Deloitte calculations                             com/2015/05/12/verizon-to-buy-aol-for-44-
                                                                                                                                            TV Next Year”. URL: http://www.emarketer.                                                             billion.html (accessed 01 September 2016)
CPM (cost per mille)              Cost of 1000 impressions of a certain type                                                                com/Article/Digital-Ad-Spending-Surpass-        IHS: “Tomorrow’s programmatic
                                                                                                                                                                                          vii

                                                                                                                                            TV-Next-Year/1013671 (accessed 31 August      landscape & how publishers can claim                    xii
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Cnet: “Verizon to buy Yahoo for $4.83
Demand-side                       Technology platform allowing brands and agencies to automatically bid for and purchase inventory          2016)                                         control”. URL: http://www.improvedigital.               billion, merge it with AOL”. URL: http://www.
platform (DSP)                                                                                                                                                                            com/main/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/                    cnet.com/news/verizon-buying-yahoo-
                                                                                                                                             eMarketer: “More Than Two-Thirds
                                                                                                                                            ii
                                                                                                                                                                                          DanielKnapp-IHS-Cannes.pdf (accessed 05                 likely-merging-it-with-aol/ (accessed 01
First-party data                  Information and data sets owned or derived by the advertiser (e.g., CRM data) or by publishers            of US Digital Display Ad Spending Is          September 2016)                                         September 2016)
                                  (e.g. audience data)                                                                                      Programmatic”. URL: http://www.emarketer.
                                                                                                                                            com/Article/More-Than-Two-Thirds-               Business Insider: “IBM quietly built the
                                                                                                                                                                                          viii
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     manager magazin: “Ströer kauft T-Online,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  xiii

Programmatic buying/              The automated trading of impressions                                                                      of-US-Digital-Display-Ad-Spending-            world’s largest digital agency — here’s                 Telekom wird Großaktionär“. URL: http://
trading/selling                                                                                                                             Programmatic/1013789 (accessed 31             how it got there”. URL: http://www.                     www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/
                                                                                                                                            August 2016)                                  businessinsider.de/ibm-quietly-built-the-               it/stroeer-kauft-t-online-a-1047997.html
Second-party data                 Data obtained from a partner who derived the data from its users (i.e. its first-party data). Includes,                                                 worlds-largest-digital-agency-heres-how-it-             (accessed 01 September 2016)
                                  for example, data pooling                                                                                   Signal: “Signal’s Prediction for Digital
                                                                                                                                            iii
                                                                                                                                                                                          got-there-2016-3?r=US&IR=T (accessed 31
                                                                                                                                            Marketing in 2016: Limitations of Walled      August 2016)                                              W&V: “Deal ist perfekt: Ströer übernimmt
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  xiv

Supply-side                       Technology platform enabling publishers to manage the sale of their inventory programmatically            Gardens Will Force Advertisers and                                                                    OMS“. URL: http://www.wuv.de/digital/
platform (SSP)                                                                                                                              Publishers to Make Tough Choices”. URL:        Signal: “Signal’s Prediction for Digital
                                                                                                                                                                                          ix
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  deal_ist_perfekt_stroeer_uebernimmt_oms
                                                                                                                                            http://www.signal.co/blog/prediction-         Marketing in 2016: Advertisers Will Shift               (accessed 01 September 2016)
Third-party data                  Data obtained from external data providers                                                                advertisers-data-co-ops/ (accessed 31         Focus from Workflow Efficiency to Targeting
                                                                                                                                            August 2016)                                  Precision”. URL: http://www.signal.co/blog/
                                                                                                                                                                                          prediction-targeted-marketing/ (accessed
                                                                                                                                            iv
                                                                                                                                              eMarketer: “Mobile Is Driving UK            31 August 2016)
                                                                                                                                            Ad Spend Growth”. URL: http://www.
                                                                                                                                            emarketer.com/Article/Mobile-Driving-UK-      x
                                                                                                                                                                                           IAB: “Data as Competitive Advantage”.
                                                                                                                                            Ad-Spend-Growth/1013685 (accessed 31          URL: http://www.iab.com/wp-content/
                                                                                                                                            August 2016)                                  uploads/2015/10/Winterberry-Group-
                                                                                                                                                                                          White-Paper-Data-as-Competitive-
                                                                                                                                            v
                                                                                                                                              eMarketer: “Digital Ad Spending Overtakes   Advantage-October-2015v2.pdf (accessed
                                                                                                                                            Newspapers in Germany”. URL: http://www.      31 August 2016)
                                                                                                                                            emarketer.com/Article/Digital-Ad-Spending-
                                                                                                                                            Overtakes-Newspapers-Germany/1013078           CNBC: “Verizon to buy AOL for $4.4B;
                                                                                                                                                                                          xi

                                                                                                                                            (accessed 31 August 2016)                     AOL shares soar”. URL: http://www.cnbc.

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