Speaking with ExchangeWire at Cannes Lions, Dave Reed, MediaMath, managing director, EMEA, discusses the role of ad tech at the advertising industry's flagship event for creatives, as well as improving the reputation of ad tech among marketers.

One ExchangeWire source revisits the heady predictions of 2011, compared to market reality in 2014, and ultimately concludes that media spend is still allocated, by and large, the same way as it was in three years ago. Back in the dizzy [...]

Click fraud has undoubtedly been one of the topics of conversation in the programmatic advertising sector in 2014, with Google’s purchase of UK-based security specialist Spider.io just one of a number of industry moves underlying its growing importance. Last week Rocket [...]

Twitter has lifted the lid on its latest mobile app install suite that aims to help advertisers drive downloads of their mobile apps both on- and off-Twitter, in a move that is set to compete with Facebook’s core mobile [...]

Mobile operator Telefonica is poised to inject fresh competition into the mobile ad tech sector with the imminent launch of Axonix, a mobile ad exchange built on the technology of the now defunct MobClix/Velti venture. The mobile operator – which has an [...]

It’s been a busy week for ad tech, with no short supply of major announcements, quite fitting given that it was Advertising Week Europe, where programmatic trading, was described as “the prettiest girl at the ball” by its organisers. ExchangeWire [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When it comes to programmatic the Germans love to talk a good game. At the recent d3con event in Berlin most panels had seven-to-eight people talking up their programmatic buying and selling strategies. That's a lot of noise to have [...]

Native ad exchanges are a nascent sector in programmatic, with mobile specialists providing the next phase of growth in the specialism. ExchangeWire examines both the drivers of the trend, plus the (legitimate) reasons holding it back. Yahoo is the latest Silicon [...]