In July 2014, Facebook acquired LiveRail, for an unconfirmed amount of USD$500m (£347m). Known as a prominent video ad exchange at the time, what was less known about LiveRail was that it also housed an ad server. In January 2016, Facebook announced [...]

Today (26 January) OpenX unveils Real-Time Guaranteed, the first programmatic marketplace to transact guaranteed deals with programmatic technology. Tim Cadogan (pictured below), CEO, OpenX talks exclusively with ExchangeWire about how this new solution will deliver on the true promise of [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Publicis wants a piece of Cheil; Google's DoubleClick starts Programmatic Guaranteed; Flashtalking acquires Encore; MediaMath Launches Helix; and Series A funding for startup [...]

Weekly Latin American RoundUp brings the following stories: IVC audits Ad Blocker's situation in the country and finds out that, for some publishers, 30% of their audience do not view ad campaigns; Brazilian Court bans WhatsApp for not complying with local investigation [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Most Asian consumers still served irrelevant ads; Indonesia sees growth in mobile ad spend & supply; More [...]

Earlier this month (3 November), at ATS New York, a trio of thought leaders discussed how publishers can fight back against Google and Facebook, the rise of private marketplaces and how to ensure users understand the value of free online [...]

Yesterday, (November, 3, 2015) the last ATS event of 2015 took place in New York City. The day started with a fireside chat between ExchangeWire’s CEO, Ciaran O’Kane and Michael Rubenstein, president, AppNexus. The discussion focussed on the future of [...]

For one veteran of the mobile enterprise software industry, the ad tech world simply is not moving fast enough and remains bogged down by ineffective ad serving and management technology. Matthew Talbot, senior vice president for BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), says he [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Australia ad tech industry wants more accountability; Twitter Ads now available to more APAC SMBs; and WWE [...]

Ad servers for publishers are a basic ingredient in digital advertising, but with significant advances in the online marketing ecosystem – including the rise of programmatic – some are questioning whether they are still relevant to today’s digital marketers. In [...]