Daniel Shaw, founder at Encore Digital, asks does half an ad for one second, sound like viewable from any perspective (other than the digital media world)? I think it’s safe to say that viewability as a topic has become a mainstream [...]

Moves to inject further transparency in the UK digital advertising industry are gathering pace with cross industry trade body JICWEBS this week announcing that it has verified a number of ad tech vendors for brand safety. But sources close to [...]

UK trade bodies representing advertisers, publishers and the ad tech sector have laid down guidelines on viewable ad impressions in a move designed to introduce viewability as a media trading standard for the first time. The IAB has this morning [...]

The issue of click fraud is endemic in the online advertising business, with estimates over the scale of the problem varying wildly, with some parties claiming that up to 50% of all billed-for ads are generated by non-human traffic. Last week, [...]

Thomas Servatius, IPONWEB, head of client services, shares with ExchangeWire readers some insights on just how big of a problem click fraud is in ad tech, and some of the reasons why it remains, despite everyone being aware of it. How [...]

As the initial phase of this year’s Ad Trader conference closes, it appears the message is loud and clear, but as we all know; the problem still persists. This year's Ad Trader Conference, hosted in Berlin, is entering its second half, [...]

Matt Adams, DigitasLBi, deputy head of media, UK, employs a recent example of airline ads appearing next to stories about the missing Malaysian aircraft to explain that while technology and data may drive efficiency and sophisticated targeting, human sensitivity remains [...]

Cameran Harman, OpenX, managing director, EMEA, explains that while the programmatic industry as a whole is generally in rude health, it is one besieged by nefarious parties, and how combatting fraud is everyone in the industry’s job. An Industry [...]

Shoring up ad viewability standards will be one of the key battlegrounds for the programmatic sector as the advertising industry enters the second quarter, with the Media Ratings Council (MRC) issuing its backing to several ad tech vendors in recent [...]

With Facebook’s purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp for a colossal $19bn announced this week, it’s clear that mobile is crucial to any ad-funded business. However, as the digital economy enters the ‘post-PC era’ in full thrust, ad spend on the [...]