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

• The Really Not So Different Worlds Of Programmatic Display And Search Advertising

  11 years ago News

  

  Rebecca Muir, Quantcast, product marketing lead, shares some of her insights on how the worlds of programmatic display and search are starting to merge. Not so very long ago, display marketers and search marketers were typically very different people and [...]

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• AppNexus Debuts Research Study To Bolster Programmatic Understanding

  11 years ago News

  

  AppNexus has taken 2014’s Ad Week Europe to unveil its latest partnership with research body Warc, as it aims to position itself at the vanguard of increased investment in programmatic by brand-side advertisers. Speaking at the Ad Week Europe conference, hosted [...]

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• Cross-Device Audience Targeting & Media Buying Opportunities In Germany

  11 years ago News

  

  Ahead of next week's Ad Trader Conference in Berlin, Jeff Green, The Trade Desk, CEO and co-founder, share his views on how adoption of programmatic trading in Europe could outpace its uptake in the US.

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• The Practical Strategy of Cross-Screen Advertising

  11 years ago News

  

  The rapid adoption of mobile devices - both smartphones and tablet devices - offers advertisers the potential to help escort consumers through a purchase journey like never before. However, as readers of this blog will know, that is much easier said [...]

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• ExchangeWire European Weekly Round-Up

  11 years ago News

  

  ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Will The Toppling Of King.com’s Share Prices Rebound On Mobile Ad Prices? King.com started trading on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this week with an initial [...]

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• AOL Aims To Clear Up The ‘Chaos’ Of Ad Tech With One Platform

  11 years ago News

  

  Buoyed by its most positive financial figures in the last 10 years, AOL has made clearing up the “chaos” ad tech its mission with the unveiling of AOL Platforms – essentially a rebrand of AOL Networks – plus the launch [...]

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• Crossing The Great Data Divide

  11 years ago News

  

  Ahead of next month’s Ad Trader Conference hosted in Berlin, Dimo Velev, OpenX, regional director, DACH, asks how can German publishers thrive in the era of big data given the more stringent privacy laws there, compared to the rest of [...]

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• The Rise Of Multi-Screen, And Why ‘Last-Click’ Has To Go

  11 years ago News

  

  The consumer shift towards accessing the web on multiple devices, plus the (albeit nascent) emergence of connected TVs, has prompted advertisers to transition towards a more holistic model of campaign optimisation, and addressing how they attribute their media spend. The [...]

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• The Debate: Public Vs. Private Exchanges

  11 years ago News

  

  The German programmatic market tipped for a period of sharp growth in 2014, as publishers there gradually open up to alternative models of monetising their digital inventory. With German publishers notoriously slow to embrace automated trading, Sebastian Romanus, managing director [...]

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• ExchangeWire Weekly European Round-Up

  11 years ago News

  

  ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. This week the potential implications for Yahoo in the Alibaba IPO, Facebook's potential 'friend conflicts' and declining popularity, plus consolidation in the ad tech sector with IgnitionOne [...]

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