AppNexus and Xaxis have announced a two-part deal that will see the ad tech firm acquire Open AdStream for an as yet publicly undisclosed fee, while Xaxis' parent company WPP will invest $25m in AppNexus.  The pair today (22 September) announced [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Publicis leverages Adobe's marketing cloud; ATS London insights; Videology's European survey and Microsoft in talks for buy Swedish gaming firm. Publicis & [...]

Danny Hopwood, Vivaki, head of platform, EMEA, contemplates just how the ad tech sector will develop ahead of his ATS London appearance. When I first encountered Invite Media in 2010, I was already late to the game. The ad tech explosion [...]

Walled gardens. Big media companies love walled gardens. Amazon, which was asked to speak at ATS London but predictably declined, has been aggressively pushing its data-driven bidder to most of the big trading desks globally. The new self-serve solution will be [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space, including Facebook's mega-growth on mobile, Yahoo's big move when it comes to mobile, plus AOL committing further inventory to programmatic. Facebook posts rip-roaring results thanks [...]

Gareth Davies, AdBrain, CEO, gives ExchangeWire his take on this week’s multimillion dollar purchase of Flurry, and how it’s the latest move in a Silicon Valley arms race, but also explains to his thoughts this can prove risky for brands’ [...]

Last week an ISBA survey laid out just some of the concerns brands have about programmatic advertising, with a survey showing that only one-third of advertisers have a positive perception of real-time media trading, indicating the extent of concerns about [...]

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.

In the second part of a two-part interview with ExchangeWire, Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus co-founder and CEO, explains some of his thoughts on how the ad tech sector can move unilaterally to address some of the more complex issues with programmatic [...]

New research from YuMe indicates that the TV is losing its prominence in terms of media consumption, but continues to dominate ad spend, pointing to a failure of the digital media industry to keep apace with its own innovations. Charting [...]