Mathew Broughton
Research Lead
Mat Broughton joined the ExchangeWire team in March 2019 as Editor. After a brief stint as editor at ExchangeWire's sister publication, TheGamingEconomy, Mat is now Research Lead at ExchangeWire, running creation, analysis and report production of ExchangeWire's suite of research products. Before joining the company he worked as a project manager working within the telecoms and travel marketing industries. Mat graduated from the University of Liverpool with an honours degree in Biological Sciences.Articles by Mathew
Brand Safety on YouTube: Q&A with Channel Factory
YouTube is realigning itself to be a more appealing prospect for advertisers, with recent initiatives such as moving their Original series from behind the paywall to an ad-funded model and establishing a 'DTC Council'. However the video-sharing platform has long [...]
Transparency and Consent Framework v2.0: Industry-Wide Benefits
Last year was truly a landmark period in the context of data protection and user privacy, with the implementation of GDPR being the headline development. In April 2018 the digital advertising industry, through IAB Europe, launched the Transparency and Consent [...]
Scaling Mobile App Businesses: Q&A with Pavel Golubev, Stack
In-app advertising is experiencing a period of growth with budgets likely to increase substantially over the coming months, due to factors including the continuing development of in-app header bidding solutions. However companies producing and selling apps still face substantial difficulties [...]
Why APAC's Advertising Industry should Prepare for In-App Header Bidding
While header bidding has transformed the programmatic industry in desktop and mobile web environments, in-app advertising has not yet capitalised on this method of ad purchasing. Given the high pace of development in the APAC region, especially in the mobile [...]
PubMatic Reveals Q1 2019 Mobile Advertising Trends; Measured Launches
In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: PubMatic reveals Q1 2019 mobile advertising trends; Measured launches cross-channel incrementality measurement for marketers; Adjust releases annual Global [...]
In-housing on the Sell-Side: Q&A with Geoff Smith, eBay
'In-housing' is one of the buzzwords currently sitting near the top of the 2019 ad tech lexicon, in an interminable race with other terms such as 'transparency'. But how should in-housing truly be defined, what role do agencies have to [...]
Digital Ad Fraud: How the Money Flows
Whilst the problems associated with ad fraud are well documented, the mechanisms by which malicious players act, along with how it is possible for the money to flow from legitimate sources to hackers, is discussed less frequently. To that end, [...]
The Spanish Programmatic & Martech Industry in 2019: Predictions & Reflections
The programmatic advertising and marketing technology industries are beautifully complex ecosystems which marry technological, financial and regulatory processes. Whilst key developments and trends are often discussed at the international level, it can be easy to overlook details at a more [...]
Data Breaches: The Broken Record of Facebook
Social networking platform Facebook has hit the headlines with a damning regularity in recent months due to seemingly chronic mismanagement of their data. Despite cap-in-hand ads running last summer proclaiming: "From now on, Facebook will do more to keep you [...]
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