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Flexitive is a Google Certified External Vendor

You can export your HTML5 Flexitive designs for over 40+ different ad servers.

As Flexitive is a Google Certified External Vendor, so you can also serve your Flexitive designs on the Google suite of products that support 3rd party tags, such as Google Ad Manager (DFP) and DoubleClick Campaign Manager (DCM). Designs served as tags can be updated in real-time directly from Flexitive, giving you more control over your live campaigns.

Being a Google Certified External Vendor means Flexitive meets Google’s requirements for third-party ad serving with regards to user privacy, the accuracy of measurement, latency, and compliance with Google’s creative policies.

Check out our article Exporting for Ad Servers for more information.

How Can Ad Agencies Evolve with Recent Changes in the Media Industry?

Ad agencies must evolve with the recent changes in the media industry, including the changing roles and pressures they face today. Our CEO, Paul Vincent chats with Adotas about how ad agencies can rebuild with these ongoing changes.

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IAB Releases New Flexible Ad Specs

The IAB has released new flexible ad specs as part of its New Ad Portfolio, which includes a major upgrade to the global ad specifications & usability. For the last 2 years, the IAB Tech Lab has been working closely with industry partners including the Flexitive Design Cloud team, to create a new set of standards based on flexible ads that adapt to the screens of devices and responsive sites/apps of today and the future.

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Design in Tech Report 2017 Shows Accelerated Growth

The Design in Tech Report 2017 has come out recently, highlighting the continuous, accelerated growth of tech companies hiring for design. We thought we would highlight a couple of interesting slides:

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What are HTML5 Ads?

HTML5 ads are the replacement for Flash-based ads that designers often built when they wanted to use animations or interactivity in their design. Flash was used extensively from the early 2000s through to 2016. Flash support started falling considerably after 2010 due to mobile operating systems like Apple’s iOS not supporting Flash, and Google’s Android having limited support.

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Top 6 Free Graphic Design Software

In 2017, there is a wide range of graphic design tools available, many that focus on a specific area. From image editing software to prototyping and wireframing tools to advanced HTML5 design tools.

We thought we would put together a list of the best free graphic design software with an emphasis on image editing software, that cover general image editing, vector images, and scaling tools that allow you to create lots of different layouts fast.

Check out the list below!

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Gap Between Programmatic and Creative One of the Biggest Challenges For Marketers

One of the biggest marketing challenges that brands and agencies face is the gap between programmatic and creative. An article by Yuyu Chen, from Digiday highlights that 30% of the attendees of their Programmatic Summit identified this as their top concern (see link at the bottom).

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HTML5 101: What is HTML5 & What are its Components?

With Flash now discontinued across multiple platforms, we thought it might be useful to start with the basics on its replacement – HTML5. What is HTML5 and what are its components?

First, HTML design is not new, the industry has been using HTML design for many years. What is different is the enhanced capabilities of the latest HTML5 spec which is a leap ahead from HTML4 and can replace Flash. A couple of key differences with HTML5 is that it enables animation and responsive/adaptive design.

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A New Era For Digital Advertising – New IAB Global Guidelines Focus on Experience

The dotcom crash of the early 2000’s formed the start of a true marketplace for a new digital advertising economy. In the last 15 years, the media industry has in a way – been in a ‘wild west’ state. It evolved faster than it did in the 200 years prior, and that fast change caused a bit of a mess.

From bot fraud to loss of transparency and excessive arbitrage in the value chain, to new tech being misused (like targeting). We’ve also somehow been drawn to buzzwords like ‘Big Data’, ‘Native Advertising’, ‘Second Screen’ and the worst one – ‘Mobile’. These cause complexity, confusion and ultimately investment going to the wrong places. These were all distractions from what should have been our focus…

…creating the best individual user experience.

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My Journey to Flexitive – Innovating Design Production Within a Marketing Agency

Guest post by Joel Nagy, Creative Technology and Innovation Consultant

As a veteran of the agency world for more than ten years, I’ve focused on development and innovation. I’ve worked with every variation of ad, from the simplest animated GIF, to complex Flash takeovers, to the current evolution of HTML5 ads.

The heyday of Flash was a golden period of amazing animations, video, and the introduction of synchronized ad units. With the advent of mobile, it became obvious to me that HTML5 would become the new standard and that these units needed to be capable of the same ease of development as well as the same level of quality seen in their predecessors.
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