Verizon Wireless' purchase, or merger, with AOL stands out as one of the ad tech stories of 2015. This is not only for its multi-billion price-tag, but also how it symbolises the attempted re-emergence of telco operators in the digital [...]

The industry is largely agreed upon the weaknesses of last-click attribution, yet it remains in common use. Below, Rafael Garcia-Navarro, Experian Marketing Services, head of analytics, discusses overcoming the challenges of finding out what marketing activities do and don't work. While [...]

Twitter's recent agreement to purchase mobile retargetting company TellApart was just the latest round in the ongoing industry consolidation. In this piece Phil Macauley, Quantcast, managing director, EU, reflects on how many of these purchases point towards marketers' growing focus [...]

WPP consultancy, Gain Theory, launched this month to help marketing and insight professionals with the challenges they are increasingly facing with data and technology. Gain Theory Partner and ExchangeWire contributor, Celina Burnett, explains more about the launch and what this [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest developments in the ad tech space in the last week, and in this week’s edition: WPP drills down on attribution, EU presses Google further, Ad misplacement rears its ugly head in tabloid investigation, [...]

'Last-click' remains the prevalent method for advertisers to reward third parties on their media plan, despite mounting voices to the contrary. ExchangeWire explores how tracking campaign performance remains largely unsatisfactory to many in the era of cross-screen campaigns. The latest IAB [...]

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 [...]

Cross-device campaign management is one of the key challenges facing the ad tech sector at present, posing questions regarding attribution and retargeting, among others. Solutions are available to advertisers, but the key debate is whether to use 'deterministic', or 'probabilistic' modelling. Ahead [...]

Tim Vanderhook, Viant, and MySpace, CEO, speaks to ExchangeWire, on the launch of the company's latest 'advertising cloud' service, and how his company aims to offer value to advertisers from what was once the largest social network in the world, [...]

Celina Burnett, partner at WPP agency Ohal, and the latest ExchangeWire columnist, explains how a holistic approach to measurement is crucial to bringing analytics to the heart of marketing. Marketers are investing more in data and analytics than ever before to [...]