Ciaran O'Kane
President & CSO
Ciaran O’Kane is the CEO of WireCorp, the publishing holding group focused on the digital advertising, retail technology and gaming sectors. He has worked in digital advertising over the last twenty years as a developer, digital marketer, ad operations provider, media monetisation specialist and senior sales executive. He continues to write editorial for ExchangeWire on advertising technology, marketing technology and programmatic - and acts as an advisor to a number of leading digital media companies in Europe.Articles by Ciaran
MadTech Sketch: The Retail Media Stack
Retail media continues to be the hottest category in ad tech right now. A new RMN (retail media network) is coming to market almost daily, driven by endemic advertising demand. PayPal, for instance, announced its plans recently to launch an [...]
MadTech Sketch: The Future of Cookieless Measurement
As a taster of our recent Deep Dive, we put together an example of some of the methodologies that can define the future of ad measurement In his latest MadTech Sketch, in association with Quantcast, Ciarán O'Kane takes a look at [...]
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MadTech Sketch: The Mechanics of Curation
Curation; everyone in ad tech is talking about it, but what does it actually mean for the industry? In this Sketch, Ciaran O’Kane looks at the mechanics of curation. Curation can be split into two parts - demand generation and activation, [...]
The MadTech Sketch - The Revolut Ad Model: Everything is NOT an Ad Net
In ExchangeWire's latest MadTech Sketch, following the news that Revolut is planning to monetise its transactional data through advertising, Ciarán O’Kane sheds light on their likely ad model, and how it's less ad net, more mini walled garden. Another new ad [...]
Making Retail Media at Scale Possible
In association with Kevel In the ever-evolving landscape of retail and ecommerce, one thing is quite clear: to compete with Amazon, the industry must embrace programmatic retail media (PRM). PRM holds the key to unlocking these unprecedented opportunities. At the heart [...]
The MadTech Sketch: Curation vs the Open Marketplace
In his latest MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane turns his attention to curation - an ad tech model that is gaining momentum and turning heads across the industry. Curation is one of ad tech's hottest topics. It has been around for some [...]
The Ad Tech Optimist
Ciaran O'Kane looks on the bright side, and dives into the eight areas of focus that give adland reasons to be cheerful. The title of this post might suggest I am looking to ape Marc Anderseen’s verbose libertarian essay on why [...]
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DoubleVerify & IAS: Moving From Verification To Activation
In this week’s MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane looks at how two heavyweights in the world of verification have been shifting focus towards activation and attention. DoubleVerify (DV) recently agreed to buy Scibids for $125m. Why did an ad verification company want [...]
The MadTech Sketch: How Commerce Media is Grabbing Ad Share
In ExchangeWire’s latest MadTech Sketch, Ciarán O’Kane looks at why commerce media is having a moment, and what a successful commerce media business looks like. Uber announced this week that it is now “profitable”. Yes, after 13 years of huge investment [...]
The MadTech Sketch: Curation for the Ad Tech Nation
In this week's MadTech Sketch, Ciarán O'Kane takes a look at curation and the opportunities it offers in the current ad tech landscape. Curation is not a new concept in ad tech. Ever since Dr Boris Mouzykantskii developed it for WPP [...]
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