2024: Trends, opportunities & challenges in the advertising market – an interview with Tom Peruzzi

At a time when technology is advancing rapidly and the way we consume advertising is constantly changing, publishers, advertisers and technology providers are facing increasingly complex challenges. In particular, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) is having an ever-increasing impact on how companies advertise and how advertising is perceived. At the same time, advertisers are […]

Admanagerforum Summer Summit 2023 at a glance

  In Munich at the end of August, everything was once again under the motto “Demand meets Supply” – because it was time again for the Admanagerforum Summer Summit. On site this year we were represented by Marc Krückemeier (VP Account Management, Adition & Active Agent) as well as Anna Rossmanith (Team Lead Key Account […]

Tom Peruzzi: 10 hypotheses on the importance of the new data world for the ad tech industry

While the supposed end of 3rd party cookies is getting closer and closer and practically all players in the advertising market are looking for new solutions and alternatives, many industry observers are wondering which further developments and trends will shape the Programmatic Advertising market in the near future. Tom Peruzzi, Virtual Minds CTO and adtech […]

Programmatic Radio: First Mover Case

In recent years, the traditional booking processes in radio have hardly changed and programmatic radio was unthinkable. For a long time, therefore, a solution was sought to optimize the processes in the linear audio sector as well and to make them more contemporary. Until now, however, there has been a lack of technology to programmatically […]

Programmatic TV: Effective advertising at the push of a button

In today’s digital age, the media landscape has changed dramatically, and TV advertising is no exception. ProSiebenSat.1 has joined forces with Virtual Minds to address this paradigm shift by introducing what is known as Programmatic TV to the Group’s channels, making it possible to target viewers with personalized content. What is Programmatic TV? Programmatic TV […]

Why linear TV campaigns must change – This was our keynote at Interact 2023

  On May 23rd and 24th, the Interact conference took place in Madrid under the central motto “Innovation, Sustainability & Growth”, where we were inspired not only by discussions and talks, but also by numerous presentations on current and upcoming topics in the digital advertising world. Alongside other industry professionals, our CTO Tom Peruzzi was […]

A World without Cookies – “Clean” Tracking through Data Clean Rooms?

  The era of third-party cookies as the most popular means of user identification in the digital world is coming to an end. Although a world completely without cookies is not expected until the end of 2024, advertisers and publishers are already facing major changes: Identifying and targeting users is already complicated by browser tracking […]

German Media Prize: Virtual Minds involved in the best regional media strategy

At the end of April, the best advertising campaigns of the past year were honored at the 25th Media Prize in Munich. Among the 120 entries was Masterplan Media’s campaign for Pågen, which won the prize in the “Best Regional Media Strategy” category. Under the campaign title “Gifflar – from Swedish greeting to mass market […]

ADAC campaign without cookies: netID once again demonstrates its potential

One of the biggest issues in the advertising industry is whether digital campaigns can be successful without third-party cookies. In this context, numerous different alternative solutions have been tested by marketers and agencies for some time. A particular question here is whether the correct dosage of the advertising message is also possible across different marketers. […]