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
Keeping Up with Data Governance: Q&A with Adrian Newby, CTO Crownpeak
The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal has thrown issues like trust and transparency in the programmatic industry into sharp relief. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Adrian Newby (pictured below), CTO, Crownpeak, talks about the appropriate consent and ePrivacy measures going forward, and [...]
Court Rules in Favour of Adblock Plus; WFA Calls Brands to Change to People-First Approach
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Adblock Plus Victorious Again; Manifesto by the World Federation of Advertisers; Dataxu Announces New Programmatic TV Solution; Slow Growth of UK Marketing [...]
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Trusted & Transparent Leadership in Verification – Why Now Is the Time for Action: Q&A with Nick Morley, EMEA MD, Integral Ad Science
Trust and transparency – two words that have kept the industry focused on developing a sustainable ecosystem that serves all players fairly. Stemming from brand-safety scandals, ad-fraud discoveries, and viewability concerns, ad tech has seen it all in the past [...]
Blockchain as a Better Way Forward: Q&A with Charles Manning, CEO, Kochava
Blockchain's foothold in the digital advertising space is getting stronger. In this Q&A, ExchangeWire talks to Charles Manning (pictured below), CEO of mobile ad analytics company Kochava, whose independent blockchain platform XCHNG seeks to tokenise the insertion order and cut out [...]
Truth – or Just the Latest Buzz-cabulary?
'Blockchain' is shouted from all rooftops. But is the encrypted, infinitely expandable chain of data sets the solution to the issues programmatic advertising is currently facing? Marco Ricci (pictured below), CEO, Adloox, wants to get the discussion started. Very [...]
Increase in Publisher Revenues; Sizmek & PubMatic Join Forces
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Publisher Revenues Increased by 5.6% in 2017; PubMatic & Sizmek Join Forces for Supply Path Optimisation; Ligatus Partners with Le Monde; European [...]
How a Need for Trust Is Shaping our Industry
On the surface, all seems well on the digital front, as programmatic buying becomes the norm. Yet there is a particular issue that plagues the industry today. What initially emerged as a mere industry buzzword has quickly become one of [...]
Supply Chain Survival: Why We All Have a Role to Play in Creating a More Transparent Advertising Industry
With platforms overhauling their metrics offerings to bring greater clarity to advertisers over how paid-for media placements perform, and major advertisers withdrawing their ads from networks that fail to deliver transparent insights, 2018 is set to be a turning point [...]
The Power of Native: Q&A with Lee Gibson, Adyoulike
Industry veteran Lee Gibson (pictured below) recently joined native advertising specialists Adyoulike, fronting the company as UK MD. ExchangeWire took the opportunity to discuss with Gibson native's share of the advertising market, brand safety in the context of native, and [...]
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