Ronan Shields
Senior Editor
Ronan Shields is the senior editor at ExchangeWire. He has extensive experience covering the digital media and advertising globally. His output focuses on challenges facing both media owners and media buyers as they attempt to negotiate the challenges posed by technology, data and the the strategic impact of programmatic trading. Ronan holds academic qualifications in journalism and has worked for a number of leading industry titles in both Europe and the Middle East.Articles by Ronan
APAC Brand Marketers Primed For Programmatic Drive
Trade magazine Campaign Asia-Pacific this week hosts the inaugural Marketing Innovation Summit, an event aimed specifically at educating brand marketers in the region about programmatic buying. ExchangeWire spoke with Gabriel Jor, the conference curator, to get insights into the impetus [...]
IPONWEB: 'We Don't Consider Ourselves To Be A Commodity Product'
Nathan Woodman, was named as IPONWEB's first-ever GM of demand solutions earlier this month and will oversee the Russia-based company's positioning and expansion in the USA from its current embryonic North American base, stationed in New York City. This comes [...]
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ExchangeWire European Weekly Round-Up
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biigest events in the industry, and in this week's edition: Yahoo buys up BrightRoll; Google drops the ball costing publishers millions; Facebook tells ATS Paris audience ad tech has nothing to fear from the [...]
Facebook Claims It's In Ad Tech To Improve Marketing, Not Devour The Industry
Facebook laid down a marker last year in terms of its ambitions in the ad tech sector with the $300m-plus purchase of ad server Atlas from Microsoft, and this year it caused a stir in the market by unveiling the improved [...]
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Premiering Linear TV Buying With Programmatic Tools
ExchangeWire spoke to Mark Frain, national sales director at Multichannel Network Australia (MCN), about last week's announcement to partner with AOL/Adap.tv to pilot the media industry’s first integrated programmatic private marketplace for television. The offering promises to enable advertisers and [...]
Who Will Dominate The Future Programmatic Landscape?
Vincent Potier, Captify, COO, reflects on how ad tech has helped propel display advertising to become an arguable rival to search advertising, and asks whether programmatic advertising will be dominated by agency trading desks, the internet's big Silicon Valley players, or [...]
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AppNexus To Guarantee 'Fraud-Free' Traffic
AppNexus today (5 November) announced a tie-up with a host of third parties, including WPP's Xaxis, DoubleVerify, Integral AdScience, to agree a common currency on what constitutes click-fraud, and also announced an initiative where it won't charge advertisers for invalid traffic. The [...]
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