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
The Viewability Quandary: How to Make It Work & Who Will Actually Use It
It's funny that viewability seems to be the hot subject in US trades at this present time. Every post I read confuses the proposition even more. Ad tech vendors continue to muddy the water around the subject, but who wants [...]
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EXCLUSIVE: Mike Nolet, CTO & Co-Founder at AppNexus, Discusses His Departure From the Company & Why He is Leaving Ad Tech
Today, Mike Nolet, Co-Founder & CTO at AppNexus, announced he is leaving the company. Here, Nolet discusses why he is leaving AppNexus at this time, his experience of working in the space over the past nine years, and why now [...]
ATS Paris To Take Place On November 14 - Tickets Now On Sale!
This will be our third ATS Paris, as we look to focus again on one of Europe's biggest and most innovative digital advertising markets. The French have blazed a trail in the areas of publisher co-ops and programmatic video over [...]
The Rise of the Client Trading Desk & its Knock-On Effect
With all the Wall Street fantasy IPOs happening at the minute, it's often easy to forget the fundamentals of our business. Display budget is very much controlled by the agencies — even more so in Europe and the APAC region. There [...]
IPONWEB'S Derek O’Neil Discusses BidSwitch And How It Will Help Solve Global Programmatic Supply And Demand Fragmentation
IPONWEB launches its BidSwitch today at DMEXCO. With the number of bidders and customised solutions exploding, BidSwitch is seen as an attempt to solve the fragmentation problem in global programmatic supply and demand. Here Derek O'Neil, Chief Business [...]
'Ad Tech Vendors Still Reluctant to Help Brands Grow Display’, by Gavin Deadman, Digital Marketing Manager, PKR Technologies Ltd
Innovation over the past few years has been moving at an astonishing pace, but one of my biggest bugbears, along with I’m sure 80% of digital marketers, is the fact that self-service DSPs and many managed service display partners still [...]
WireDex: Making Sense of the Ecosystem
For years the Lumascape was the standard bearer for the ad tech industry. It confused and perplexed everyone in the industry alike. So many boxes. So many point solutions. Where did it begin and where did it end? How could [...]
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SpotXchange's Andrew Moore Discusses Key Trends From Its European Report On Programmatic Video
SpotXchange recently published its industry research report on programmatic video advertising across Europe (done in association with IHS), detailing trends in the key markets. ExchangeWire spoke to Andrew Moore, European Managing Director at SpotXchange about the report's findings. Overall what [...]
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