Regie Media Belge (RMB), the Belgian multi-media advertising network of RTBF – the radio and television broadcaster for the French-speaking community in Belgium – has today announced it has chosen 1plusX’s data management platform to better qualify its audiences and [...]

What do you do when the entire structure that acted as the foundation of a multi-billion dollar industry collapses in on itself? It’s not an easy question to answer. And an even more difficult problem to solve. But that’s where [...]

These are strange times, readers. COVID continues to tear away at the socio-economic fabric of the world. The once noble institutions of the ad tech ‘POWA’ breakfast, and the extended media lunch, have been reduced to sad Zoom/Google Meet/Microsoft Teams [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Google reveals some of the details of its ad network fees; WhatsApp sees its payment service barred by Brazil's Central Bank; and Facebook releases a new tool to help businesses comply with the CCPA.   Google opens [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the New Zealand government provides a $50m cash boost to media groups struggling amidst the Coronavirus; AT&T reports a loss of almost 90,000 subscribers from its paid TV services; and CVS is breaking into retail [...]

The term ‘ad network’ surfaces a lot of ill-feeling when discussed at conferences or in the trade press - its reputation has been besmirched by consistent bad behaviour over two decades. Programmatic ad tech vendors built market share in the [...]

When Apple's Tim Cook took such a public swipe at the way Google and Facebook use personal data to generate ad revenue, you felt it was a calculated move from the canny tech CEO. Apple’s hardware business is starting to [...]

When I met Gurman Hundal seven years ago in a small Soho pub for the first time, he told me he was going to start a programmatic ad network. At first I thought, as a model, it would have no [...]

An intense price war has been waging between performance ad networks in China; but competing based on price is unsustainable and will not prevent advertisers from jumping ship. Richard O'Connell, general manager of MobAir's China operations, observes that some ad networks [...]

Today (24 February) ad blocking company Shine, announced that they are rebranding as 'Rainbow'. Rainbow is described as "a consumer ad experience", and the company states: "We are no longer selling ad blocking to mobile carriers, or ISPs." In short, Rainbow [...]