Telefonica wants to partner-up instead of buy its way into the advertising game
By Seb Joseph
Telefonica wants to become a force in the $100bn mobile advertising market, but has ruled out embarking on an adtech feeding frenzy to make it a reality, a decision born out of its deference to oncoming data privacy rules, instead favouring a series of partnerships.
It might sound counterintuitive for a business to rule out growing the number of ways it can profit from its biggest asset – its one-to-one transactional relationship with users – and yet the telco thinks its ad exchange Axonix is enough.
This is a slight departure from the earlier aggressive efforts of its UK Read full story ›
Source: The Drum





