TailWind & top Hungarian media players – together as Project Agora HU

Cristina Blanaru Creativity, Digital & Media, Marketing

Six of the leading Hungarian digital media players – RTL Hungary, Adaptive Media, Ads Interactive, Habostorta, Nosalty.hu and Russmedia – announced their intention to launch, together with TailWind, Project Agora Hungary, audience driven programmatic marketplace of premium local publishers.

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The mentioned companies own or represent together over 100 premium websites, with more than 340M page views per month and an impressive monthly reach of more than 3,7M Hungarians. The coalition jointly reaches 70% of the Hungarian internet population, according to Gemius’ DKT from June 2015.

Local Publishers have long been the smallest fish in a fierce war monopolized by international giants. While the digital advertising spend has been growing, the local players’ share has been stagnant or decreasing. Publisher Alliances have been blossoming around the world as they provide the only significant way for local media companies to reclaim back their market share and regain strategic independence.

Odysseas Ntotsikas,

Managing Director and Founder TDG

Project Agora is already live in Greece and Romania since 2014 and is scheduled to launch in the MENA region in October 2015.

In Romania, the launch partners include the top 6 internet publishing groups with over 70 premium websites and an overall reach of 5 million unique users per month. In Greece, Project Agora’s partners include 5 of the top TV broadcasters and more than 60 major websites with an overall reach of 4m unique users per month.

During its first 6 months of operation hundreds of campaigns run on Project Agora Romania and Greece from top advertisers including BMW, Deutsche Telekom, Emirates, ING, Orange, Seat, Vodafone and Unilever.

 

TailWind, a TDG company, energizes publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies to cut through the complexity of digital business and drive their business fast forward through automated, data driven, ad-technology solutions. TailWind owns and operates Project Agora, a network of programmatic publisher marketplaces across CEE, SE Europe and MENA.