Apple announced this week that it has already secured $60 million dollars in iAd campaigns, with the likes of Nissan, Best Buy and Disney being some of the initial brands to try out the new mobile ad platform. Some [...]

ContextWeb has just launched an interesting new feature for publishers on its site. The new service, entitled Pubvantage, allows publishers to learn about and connect to ad networks in the US market. Publishers have the opportunity to anonymously [...]

There's a piece today in MarketingWeek about the OFT's report. The report points out that the online advertising industry could be doing more to "address consumer concerns over behavioural targeting". The OFT (Office of Fair Trading) has warned [...]

Malvertising is, according to Rubicon execs, putting about $600 million dollars of publisher revenue at risk every month. I take it that cost must include brand damage, loss of revenue due to drop in traffic (malware has led to [...]

Kwame Acheampong is Managing Director and Partner at Httpool. Httpool is an ad network that specialises in the Central and Eastern European markets, offering buying opportunities in these markets to UK agencies and advertisers. Acheampong took time to [...]

I would love to sit in on a Google strategy meeting some morning. It would be an education. As you watch all media becoming more digital, you can see the company encroaching on all fronts. Last week [...]

Matthias Pantke is CEO of AdScale GmbH, Germany. Adscale is one of Germany's leading ad exchanges, trading nearly 6 billion impressions per month. Pantke took this week to speak to ExchangeWire about the Adscale platform, the size of [...]

Michel Juvillier is CEO of Improve Digital, France. The platform is now the biggest supply side platform in the market: it works with 15 of the top 20 Comscore publishers; and is now optimizing two billion ad impressions per [...]

Yann Le Roux is the co-founder of the newly launched French exchange trading specialist, Matiro. Matiro is the first exchange specialist in France, and it's launching at a time when the display market there is experiencing a similar evolution [...]

The numbers are always a problem with these state of the industry reports - always too focused on the US market. But the Rubicon Report is still a good read if only to get the company’s perspective of the market. [...]