Sonja Kroll

EMEA Editor

Sonja is the EMEA editor for ExchangeWire and covers all things programmatic in Europe from her base in Dublin. She initially found her way into the online marketing world through editorial and management roles for Yahoo! Search Marketing in the mid 2000s, before switching sides in 2009 and reporting on the online advertising industry as a regular contributor to German language internet news portal internetworld.de, and working as a content creator for a variety of clients in the tech and marketing world. Sonja has a BA in Photographic Media under her belt and in a previous life, qualified as secondary school teacher from the University of Würzburg, Germany, conducted traffic surveys and acted as an extra on an Irish soap opera.

Articles by Sonja

• Mobile Ad Spend to Grow by 31% in the UK in 2018; SpotX Fully Acquired by RTL Group

  7 years ago News

  

  ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Mobile drives UK ad spend in 2018; RTL acquires remaining SpotX shares; Venatus adopts ads.txt standard; Inneractive battles ad fraud; and adsquare launches data [...]

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• Adblocker-Rate in Deutschland stabil; Adikteev bringt DCO-Technologie

  7 years ago News

  

  ExchangeWire bündelt die wichtigsten Nachrichten der Region DACH aus der deutschsprachigen Programmatic-Szene. Diese Woche: BVDW Adblocker-Rate; Adikteev bringt DCO-Testing; AGOF misst Reichweite jetzt täglich; und Fünf Fragen an Danuta Florczyk, tectumedia. Ein Fünftel aller Online-Display-Werbung geblockt Gerade erst machte wieder ein Adblock-Urteil die Medienrunde, [...]

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• German Court Decides in Eyeo's Favour; GroupM Softens Viewability Requirements

  7 years ago News

  

  ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Ad blockers triumph in German court case; GroupM announces new viewability standards; Pretty pictures for Taboola; Digital Element and Taboola partner; and [...]

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• The More We Can Predict, The Better We Can Deliver: Q&A with Haylee Adkins, Global Head of Client Strategy, Drawbridge

  7 years ago News

  

  Data alone doesn't make marketing relevant. With personalisation at the top of many marketers' lists, cross-device identity-based marketing is gaining traction. ExchangeWire chats with Haylee Adkins (pictured below), global head of strategy, Drawbridge, about the developments in ID-based marketing and how [...]

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• Publisher unterliegen Eyeo vor Gericht; Plista und Jivox kooperieren

  7 years ago News

  

  ExchangeWire bündelt die wichtigsten Nachrichten aus der Region DACH mit Schlaglicht-Interviews aus der deutschsprachigen Programmatic-Szene. Diese Woche: Eyeo setzt sich vor Gericht gegen Publisher durch; Plista und Jivox kooperieren; Nielsen Ad Ratings Benchmarks; und Fünf Fragen an Oliver Hülse, Integral [...]

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• The Rise of AI in Programmatic Advertising

  7 years ago News

  

  Elon Musk is all for it, Mark Zuckerberg warns of its dangers – and, as if to prove the point, Facebook recently had to shut down parts of their AI experiment after chatbots had become too clever and invented their [...]

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• Native Integration Between Adyoulike & AppNexus; Improve Digital Partners with Digital Element

  7 years ago News

  

  ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Adyoulike and AppNexus integrate; Improve Digital partners with Digital Element; Plista and Jivox are teaming up; GumGum uses standardised IDs; Cooperation between [...]

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• Ad Requests am Abend; EVSG startet Viewability-Standardisierung

  7 years ago News

  

  ExchangeWire bündelt die wichtigsten Nachrichten aus der Region DACH mit Schlaglicht-Interviews aus der deutschsprachigen Programmatic-Szene. Diese Woche: Abendstunden gehören der Mobile-Nutzung; Standardisierungsvorstoß der EVSG; Integral Ad Science wird rezertifiziert; und Fünf Fragen an Kate Owen, Digital Element. Meiste Ad Requests am [...]

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• Taptica Buys Tremor Video DSP; Bitposter Launches Direct Marketplace

  7 years ago News

  

  ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: USD$50m (£38.5m) for Tremor Video's DSP; Bitposter Direct Marketplace; ABC accreditation for Integral Ad Science; European Viewability Certification Framework; QDOT goes Uruguay; [...]

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• Mehr Kooperationen für adsquare; MMA Deutschland wächst

  7 years ago News

  

  ExchangeWire bündelt die wichtigsten Nachrichten aus der Region DACH aus der deutschsprachigen Programmatic-Szene. Diese Woche: Neue adsquare-Kooperationen; MMA Deutschland auf Wachstumskurs; und Axel Springer und United Internet bringen Awin. Adsquare kooperiert mit Adbrain, Drawbridge, Tapad Über eine Handvoll neuer Kooperationen will Adsquare [...]

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