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  • Numbers Don’t Lie: Marketers are Gaining Significant Expertise in Programmatic Advertising

    For three years now, Adform has collected data on programmatic trading, and at the end of each quarter, examined it to assess the progress being made by the various players. Martin Stockfleth Larsen, AdForm, CMO, explains how in this last quarter [...]

  • 'You Have To Say To Someone Sometimes That What You Want Is Unobtainable'  

    ExchangeWire caught up with Nate Woodman, IPONWEB's recently appointed GM of demand solutions, to discuss how his role was created to help bolster the ad tech firm's profile among clients, in a two-part interview.  In the first instalment he lifted the [...]

  • APAC Brand Marketers Primed For Programmatic Drive

    Trade magazine Campaign Asia-Pacific this week hosts the inaugural Marketing Innovation Summit, an event aimed specifically at educating brand marketers in the region about programmatic buying. ExchangeWire spoke with Gabriel Jor, the conference curator, to get insights into the impetus [...]

  • The Rise Of The Brand Trading Desk: Air France To Speak About In-Housing At ATS Paris

    Much has been written about the 'brand trading desk' or specifically the in-housing of the programmatic buying function. A lot of it has surfaced in the trade press - but there has been very few clients prepared to speak publicly [...]

  • It’s Official: Consumers Are Just Not That Into Retargeted Ads

    Careless retargeting executed by ad tech firms more interested in swelling their bottom lines, as opposed to performing a consumer service, are damaging their advertisers in the eyes of consumers that are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with just how much brands [...]

  • What Advertisers Really Think About Transparency

    The ad tech sector is arguably the hottest part of the marketing industry right now with the word 'programmatic' on almost every C-level marketer's lips when talking about high-level strategy. Undoubtedly this is good news for the programmatic advertising industry, [...]

  • ExchangeWire European Weekly Round-Up

    ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Facebook's Atlas; Quantcast buys Struq, and Affiperf's 'meta DSP'.   Closed ecosystem players stack up  AOL, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and a whole host [...]

  • 'We Believe Strongly That The Agency Is The Right Place For Programmatic Technology'

    Earlier this week AppNexus and Xaxis announced a two-part deal that will see the ad tech firm acquire Open AdStream for an as yet publicly undisclosed fee, while Xaxis’ parent company WPP will invest $25m in AppNexus. Here Brian O'Kelley, AppNexus, CEO, [...]

  • AppNexus CEO Tells ATS Tokyo: ‘Differentiate Or Die’

    Speaking at ATS Tokyo this morning (16 September), Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus, CEO, told attendees the ad tech sector was ripe for both commoditisation and consolidation, as companies like Google attempted to “own” the sector. Elsewhere, attendees where advised on the [...]

  • The Empire Strikes Back: Assessing Big TV's Move Into Ad Tech

    Ahead of moderating a panel on 'Programmatic Video – Entering The Era of Brand Response', Vincent Flood, Video Ad News, editor, sets the scene on major broadcasters' nascent moves into the programmatic video space.  One of the more interesting trends for 2014 so [...]