Viewability. It's one of they key issues facing the online advertising industry, as brands - wary of getting scammed - ask for ever-increasing levels of transparency; with oil giant Shell now asking for FIVE TIMES the industry standard before it [...]

Brands have never been keener to put programmatic on the media plan, but with this increased demand comes scrutiny, propelling phrases such as 'transparency' to the core of the public industry discussion, as advertisers increasingly demand ROI. ExchangeWire speaks with [...]

What does a 'like' or retweet mean for your brand? Nothing much these days, it seems, as they come a dime a dozen. Instead, data has become increasingly important to enable advertisers to better engage their audience, but what remains [...]

With a third of marketers planning to increase investment in DMPs in 2015, Zuzanna Gierlinska, director, strategic agencies & accounts, Oracle Marketing Cloud, EMEA, calls on marketers to start investing in the right resources too. DMPs gaining traction A recent Oracle Marketing [...]

The ad tech industry has become increasingly fragmented and has lost its focus of consumers over its failure to execute a cohesive user experience. It also needs to improve communication to achieve better transparency and build trust. These were among the [...]

Maja Martin, DMG, director of marketing, discusses what Facebook’s influencers’ patent means for marketers. I suspect we all have a select group of friends that seem to appear disproportionately on our Facebook feeds. Their updates garner dozens of likes and the [...]

This may shock you, but I actually came across a useful piece of content the other day on LinkedIn. You'll be glad to know it wasn't the usual spammy "top five ways YOU can become a C-level parody by observing [...]

Brand safety should weigh heavily on every marketer's mind as should contextual advertising, so why are 'bad ads' still popping up frequently today? Gregory Armshaw, head of application strategy at Graymatics recalls the day he nearly lost his job over [...]

The IAB Europe has published a white paper laying down further guidelines on viewable ad impressions to stakeholders in the digital advertising sector across the continent. However leading figures in the publishing industry are making the case to advance the [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up the key industry updates on ad tech from around the region – and in this week's edition: WeChat ads go live with major brands; Most Spotify users in AU happy to receive ads; Japan, [...]