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  • 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: Germany's Fyber sells to RNTS Media; ExchangeWire begins ATS New York countdown; UK digital spend valued at £7bn a year; Ebuzzing [...]

  • First Class Data Is Your Ticket To Success

    One of ExchangeWire's industry insiders discusses one of the ac tech's key buzz phrases - 'big data' - and how it is now inextricably linked to CMOs, but also highlights how not all data is created equally, and warns marketers over [...]

  • '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, [...]

  • 'Marketers Buy Clicks But Don’t Understand What They Get'

    Matt Harty, Experian, GM, Audience Solutions, APAC, looks at developments for the region’s third-party data market, and asks how well the programmatic advertising sector in APAC is addressing the audience disjunction problem, particularly in a market that is largely ‘mobile-first’ where [...]

  • Ad Tech's Dilemma: Fragmentation vs. Consolidation

    One of ExchangeWire’s ‘inside sources’ shares their views on how the fragmented LUMAscape means  media teams cannot possibly evaluate suppliers in every category, plus the commonality of the history of ad tech and the rail network, including how consolidation under large media [...]

  • ‘Ad Tech 3.0’ Dystopia or Utopia?

    Gareth Davies, Adbrain, CEO, and ExchangeWire columnist, discusses the benefits of establishing an industry standard way of targeting audiences in a mobile-first world, as well as an alternative scenario where the industry is controlled by a few vested interests.  Programmatic players [...]

  • Do Marketing Clouds Mean Stormy Weather Ahead For Ad Tech?

     This year’s ATS London will focus on some of the emerging trends in the contemporary ad tech space, as well as gaze into the near and distant future in an attempt to forecast the challenges facing the ‘traditional’ ad tech [...]

  • Yahoo’s Latest Buy Is The Latest Move In ‘Single Customer View’ Arms Race

    Gareth Davies, AdBrain, CEO, gives ExchangeWire his take on this week’s multimillion dollar purchase of Flurry, and how it’s the latest move in a Silicon Valley arms race, but also explains to his thoughts this can prove risky for brands’ [...]

  • Reinventing The Agency Model In The Big Data Era

    In a two-part look at how the growing importance of ‘big data’ and the subsequent emergence of programmatic media-buying, ExchangeWire examines the potential threats it poses to traditional media businesses, and just how they must adapt to survive in the [...]

  • How The GroupM Ad Exchange Will Disrupt The Dynamic Of The Programmatic Supply Market

    Ciaran O'Kane, ExchangeWire, global editor, muses over the potential impact of WPP's GroupM arm apparently halting the purchase of ad inventory from open exchanges. In this piece, he also speculates on whether or not Xaxis pivots to become the holding group's [...]