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
Tackling The Issue Of Infringing Copyright In A Digital Age
Nick Stringer, IAB UK, director of regulatory affairs, asks how can the UK digital advertising industry limit the risk of brand advertising on infringing copyright sites? At the end of April, the UK Joint Industry Committee for Web Standards (JICWEBS) announced [...]
ExchangeWire European Weekly Round-Up
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. Publicis-Omnicom calamity raises more questions than answers The big news in the advertising world this week has been the collapse of the proposed $35bn merger between Publicis and [...]
How Data Can Be Used For More Than Just Audience Targeting
Delphine Fabre-Hernoux, Amnet, senior director, audience insight, argues that people who say 'data doesn't work' are wrong, and how using the correct methodology data can be used for more than just targeting, and applied to generate genuine audience insight. We should all [...]
Waking Up Brand Managers To Mobile Programmatic
Chris Bourke, Qriously, commercial director, EMEA, explains how employing mobile and programmatic can help marketeers solve problems foisted upon them by social media. How does an industry that warns brand marketers “correlation is not causality” expect to woo their budget? This [...]
Criteo Strategy Further Heralds The Rise Of The Data Driven Bidder
Criteo intends to increase investment in its its bidding technology as it aims to reduce its reliance on display advertising, as well as improving its cross-platform ad serving portfolio, according to company CEO Jean Baptiste Rudelle who earlier today announced [...]
Why Aren’t We Seeing More ‘Pure Play’ Consultancies In Digital Marketing?
Finance, Business and Management consultants have been servicing FTSE 500 companies for 100-plus years (for example Deloitte was founded in 1845). However they don’t appear to be making significant waves into the digital media industry, why? But one of the big [...]
ExchangeWire European Weekly Round-Up
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. Facebook unveils FAN Facebook this week announced it is to further roll out its Facebook Audience Network (FAN), which effectively increases the competition in the mobile, social retargeting [...]
Transparency Milestones Met, But Some Important Names Are Missing
Moves to inject further transparency in the UK digital advertising industry are gathering pace with cross industry trade body JICWEBS this week announcing that it has verified a number of ad tech vendors for brand safety. But sources close to [...]
Premium UK Publishers Primed For Increased Programmatic Push
The majority of the UK’s premium publishers are planning an increased investment in programmatic media trading, according to figures released by the Association of Online Publishers (AOP). Meanwhile separate figures from Magna Global reveal the UK continues to drive programmatic [...]
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