You may be forgiven for being confused about the mixed messages coming out of Brussels yesterday on privacy. The ICO (Information Commission Office) was pretty hard-nosed about the ePrivacy directive and cookies, indicating that browser settings would not be [...]

Infectious Media has been actively trading on exchanges for over two years. In fact it was one of the first companies ExchangeWire spoke to back in the day when this venerable blog was working under the moniker of FarneyMedia [...]

The Yahoo DR business has been growing its market share across Europe over the last couple of years. It has invested significant resource into its data strategy, giving it an edge over third party ad nets. But given [...]

Having produced the display eco-system map for Europe, Improve Digital is now looking to do some localised versions. First up is the Dutch market. It does look very similar to the European map - but local players are [...]

AdScale is the biggest display marketplace in the biggest display market in Europe. It therefore matters. A lot. And in terms of real-time dynamic supply it is crucial to the growth of automated buying. Matthias Pantke, [...]

The paywall is not a panacea for the current economic woes being experienced by traditional publishers. In fact outside specialist and business critical content providers, like the WSJ and the FT, you are going to struggle to get anyone [...]

It would see that normal service has been resumed. Specific Media remains committed to its core agency business. In an interview with ExchangeWire Ian Dowds, Vice-President UK Revenue at Specific Media, reiterates why SM will continue to focus [...]

I recently got slapped down for giving the "oxygen of publicity" to yet another meaningless acronym. And in fairness it was probably justified. If you were to stand back from it all and look at the current fragmented [...]

StrikeAd recently raised some new funding. Will you look to build out your platform, and move into other markets? AR: We are very pleased to raise investment from eValue, led by Thomas Falk, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in [...]

Despite all the innovation in display and talk of disintermediation, ad networks are still doing pretty nicely. They're still making big margins. And more importantly are still delivering performance for agencies and advertisers. But the threats to [...]