China's Alibaba Group is evidently looking to beef up its advertising revenue, which already accounts for the bulk of its revenue, as it kicks off the new year with an acquisition in the ad tech space. The e-commerce giant this week [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Amazon's videogame move; Facebook tweeks ad offering;  IPONWEB buys in Europe; Rubicon Project partners with Future; Alibaba and WPP's telling filings. [...]

The APAC programmatic industry is poised for a period of marked growth, but skills gaps in the region, along with a more defined role for ad tech players and agencies need to be addressed if this potential is to be fully [...]

Rob Webster, Crimtan, chief product officer, discusses some of the challenges for Western companies looking to crack the potentially lucrative Asia Pacific RTB market, ahead of next week's ATS Singapore conference. Stu Spiteri at Krux recently wrote a very good article, [...]

Programmatic advertising strategies devised by the top-tier management of digital marketing outfits are failing to trickle down to the teams that actually execute campaigns in APAC, according to a recent ExchangeWire poll conducted in partnership with Google. The findings identify [...]

Stu Spiteri, Krux, managing director, Asia Pacific, talks about his participation at next week’s ATS Singapore event, and explains his opinions on why companies adopting a copy-and-paste approach from strategies implemented elsewhere won’t succeed in APAC. In this piece, he also [...]

Tom Simpson, Mediaquark, CEO, shares insights on some of the common mistakes made by international companies looking to successfully crack the diverse APAC region. Singapore-based Simpson stresses the need for localisation (plus increased levels of education) in the APAC region [...]

AppNexus is to double its operations in Singapore, including the transfer of senior employees from its European and US operations, reflecting similar moves by programmatic players in APAC – a market estimated to be worth in excess of $1,892m by [...]

This year the opening day of Mobile World Congress has seen a series of announcements indicating that programmatic advertising is proving an increasingly popular method for brands to reach consumers in the ‘mobile first’ markets of Asia and Latin America. Millennial [...]

Online advertising spend in APAC is set to surpass US$52 billion by 2017, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PWC) latest global entertainment and media outlook. The figure currently stands at just over US$27 billion, but is expected to rise at a compound [...]