SINGAPORE/ ANZ, 19 May 2016 – MediaMath, creator of the TerminalOne Marketing Operating System™ for digital marketers, today revealed the findings of a study conducted by Forrester Consulting, “Programmatic: The Shifting Paradigm Of Digital Marketing.” The study, commissioned by MediaMath, found that 41 percent of senior marketing professionals in Asia Pacific (APAC) have already adopted programmatic buying into their media buying processes, with Australia (48 percent), Japan (46 percent) and Singapore (46 percent) leading as the most mature markets in the region. Of these, 82 percent are either satisfied or highly satisfied with their investment in programmatic technology, indicating that marketers are benefiting and getting returns from their programmatic adoption. Furthermore, an exceedingly positive 96 percent of these adopters plan to continue investing in programmatic technology in the next 24 months.

While several markets in the APAC region have been seen as laggards in terms of marketing technology adoption, it remains a high growth region, with a large number of businesses yet to adopt or integrate programmatic advertising into their marketing mix. To gauge the appetite and adoption levels for programmatic in APAC, Forrester surveyed 300 senior marketing decision-makers in Australia, Japan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Survey respondents were all from mostly business-to-consumer (B2C) companies with annual revenues in excess of US$25 million.

“Having invested in the APAC region over the past four years, we have seen exponential growth in the adoption of programmatic and this study is testament that APAC marketers are increasingly turning to programmatic buying to support their overall digital marketing strategy,” said Rahul Vasudev, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, MediaMath. “It is encouraging to learn that marketers are increasingly understanding the larger business benefits of using programmatic marketing as an underpinning technology layer to achieve their marketing goals. There are healthy signs that programmatic adoption in APAC will only continue to grow and that the noticeable gap in maturity of the various markets is shrinking very fast.”

Overall, 48 percent of APAC marketers surveyed who have not adopted programmatic indicated that they are either planning to or are currently in the evaluation stage. On country level, the survey also showed that more than half of marketers in the less mature countries, such as India (52 percent), Malaysia (58 percent), and Indonesia (56 percent), are either planning to adopt or are currently evaluating whether to adopt programmatic buying. This is a promising indicator of the extent of programmatic awareness across the region.

Through the survey, APAC marketers cited better contextual targeting, faster and more efficient execution and real-time optimisation as the most important benefits in considering programmatic in their practice. As for key barriers to programmatic adoption, marketers cite these as top factors: a lack of time to understand and implement programmatic, lack of programmatic skills, the complexity of the technical implementation and, lastly, not having an agency partner that can help them use programmatic.

“Marketers have very valid concerns when it comes to programmatic adoption,” said Rahul. “Marketers need to leverage capable and skilled agency and technology partners who can help set them on a path to excellence in programmatic. A partner with the requisite skills is essential to chart the roadmap for clients looking to leverage this very valuable ecosystem. A large obstacle is internal education, so it is imperative that marketers invest in formal programmatic education for themselves to enable themselves to reap the benefits that successful programmatic practices deliver.”

As global programmatic ad spend is expected to reach US$37 billion by 2019[1], APAC is also poised to play a significant role in this growth. The research results in ‘Programmatic: The Shifting Paradigm Of Digital Marketing’ show that programmatic adoption in this region is on the rise and will continue to grow. Therefore, it is imperative for APAC marketers to hone their programmatic knowledge and skills and to start considering programmatic marketing in their practice (if they have not done so) to gain strategic and real business advantages.

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For more information on MediaMath’s TerminalOne Marketing Operating System, visit http://www.mediamath.com.

About MediaMath                                             

MediaMath (www.mediamath.com) is a global technology company that is leading the movement to revolutionise traditional marketing and drive transformative results for marketers through its TerminalOne Marketing Operating System®. A pioneer in the industry introducing the first Demand-Side Platform (DSP) with the company’s founding in 2007, MediaMath is the only company of its kind to empower marketers with an extensible, open platform to unleash the power of goal-based marketing at scale, transparently across the enterprise.

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[1] Global programmatic as spend, Magna Global, September 2015