Informal talks to establish a consortium of ad tech companies that would help establish an ‘industry standard’ way of measuring legitimate web traffic are understood to be taking place, as ‘click fraud’ continues to dog some of the industry’s biggest [...]

Weve, the joint venture (JV) company between the three-largest UK mobile operators, has lifted the lid on a mobile display ad pilot with Tesco as the participating brand, as the industry’s move towards mobile devices gathers pace. Weve – a joint venture [...]

Google, Microsoft and UK mobile operator joint venture Weve are among companies attempting to win over more brand spend in the notoriously tricky mobile display ad market with the formation of an industry working group that intends to spread further [...]

Discrepancies around ad viewabilty promises to be one of the key hurdles for the ad tech industry to clear, as trade bodies representing advertisers and premium publishers have identified it as one of the key issues to address in 2014. [...]

Sources indicate that data will be one of the hot topics of 2014, particularly as the French regulator begins to bear its teeth and advertisers begin to demand enhanced transparency. In short, the terms ‘privacy’ and ‘transparency’ could soon become [...]

Programmatic buying continues to dominate video advertising conversations, and the ad tech industry can expect it to move further into the mainstream of media buying strategies in 2014. But the industry must reform some of its ways before this happens, [...]

The ad industry will see a massive acceleration towards programmatic buying and content marketing in 2014. Alex Kuhnel, PulsePoint, MD Europe, gives ExchangeWire a peek into what he thinks we can expect to see unfold in 2014. Programmatic in the ad [...]

CPA is not a performance-based marketing metric. On the face of it, this may seem like an odd thing to say, but it is in fact a natural extension of the well-known adage “correlation is not causation”. With marketing analytics [...]

As traditional agencies look to beef up their data and technology offering, it's clear that a big shift is happening at the big agency groups. Dwindling margins on media buying is forcing groups to think about how to capture higher-margin [...]

The notion of universal frequency capping in RTB has long been touted as a major USP. You could argue that it was one of the major catalysts behind the move to consolidated platform-based buying. But has universal frequency capping really [...]