The definitive Digiday guide to what’s in and out at Dmexco 2018

Digiday covers the annual trade show in Cologne. More from the series →

There’s nowhere better than the annual Dmexco conference, which kicks off Sept. 12 in Cologne, Germany, to take the temperature of the digital marketing industry.

Marketers, publishers, (albeit fewer) agencies, and ad tech vendors, will descend on the city to figure out how to make their digital ad supply chains more efficient, address the General Data Protection Regulation, and get caught up on emerging tech.

Much has changed in the last year. Here’s a list of what’s in and what’s out this year.

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