Ciaran O'Kane
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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
How Germany Moves Out of the Programmatic Slow Lane
The Echo Chamber is a regular column, penned by Ciaran O’Kane, on all things adtech, martech and programmatic. Germany has two conferences focused exclusively on programmatic – one of which is a joint venture between ExchangeWire and Adzine, for full disclosure. Both [...]
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Catherine Williams, Chief Data Scientist at AppNexus, Discusses APB
Catherine Williams, Chief Data Scientist at AppNexus, speaks to ExchangeWire about the launch of APB and how it is helping marketers find “a third way” to optimise their ad spend through their use of their data. EW: Some people have [...]
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Senior Agency Exec, Anthony Rhind, Leaving Carat to Join Adform As CSO; Why European Ad Tech Can't Sell at a Premium
In this week’s ExchangeWire Weekly European Roundup: Rhind heads to ad tech; another European bargain bucket ad tech sale; mobile carriers look to "poison the well" with Shine hook-up; BidSwitch enables programmatic buying across native; and why ad tech is [...]
Ad Tech: Not Even the Beginning of the End
The Echo Chamber is a regular column, penned by Ciaran O’Kane, on all things ad tech, martech, and programmatic. Advertising technology is dead, don't you know? A recent post in Techcrunch told us excitedly that ad tech has had its day, [...]
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The Inevitable Collide of Martech And Ad Tech
The Echo Chamber is a regular column, penned by Ciaran O’Kane, on all things adtech, mar tech and programmatic. Having attended the MarTech conference last week in San Francisco, a few things struck me about the two-day conference on the nascent [...]
As Rubicon Project Buys Ad Net For $120 Million, Should SaaS Model Be Abandoned In Ad Tech?
This week Rubicon Project bought ad network Chango for over $100 million, mostly in stock. This was an interesting acquisition, not because Rubicon bought a buy-side company, but more a realisation of the difficulty in building a 100% SaaS-based ad [...]
ExchangeWire European Weekly Round Up
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the goings on in the world of ad tech during the last seven days, and in this week’s edition: Ad Tech not dead yet as Exelate exits For $200 million; Zalando buys Metrigo for $3 [...]
So You Are In Ad Tech... What Does That Mean?
This may shock you, but I actually came across a useful piece of content the other day on LinkedIn. You'll be glad to know it wasn't the usual spammy "top five ways YOU can become a C-level parody by observing [...]
The New Agency Programmatic Strategy Revealed... in Two Handy Visuals
The Echo Chamber is a regular column, penned by Ciaran O'Kane, on all things ad tech, mar tech and programmatic As reported by ExchangeWire this week, Publicis is re-organising some of its programmatic trading functions within the group with internal agencies [...]
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