We’ve all heard the projections; global mobile ad spend is set to triple to $37bn by 2017, accounting for half of total US digital ad budgets. The driver; programmatic buying – set to reach more than 50% of US display [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Yahoo Parts Ways with COO De Castro Ahead Of Ad Exchange Roll-Out Earlier this week it emerged that Yahoo has axed its former Chief Operating Officer Henrique [...]

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 [...]

MoneySuperMarket aims to increase the efficiency of its online media spend by cutting a deal with ad viewability firm Meetrics, as it continues to diversify its multi-million pound digital marketing strategy. The price comparison site today (13 January, 2014) announced it [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Publicis/Omnicom Merger Receives Green Light In Europe, So What Will This Mean For Accuen And Vivaki? The merger is quite rightly billed as one of the [...]

GroupM’s purchase of Germany-based Plista for a reputed €30m indicates an increased appetite for data-driven solutions among the industry’s big players, but also points to mounting pressure facing third-party tech partners as we enter 2014. This week WPP’s investment arm GroupM [...]

At our recent ATS event in Paris, we gathered a number of senior European ad tech execs to discuss how customisation will define the programmatic space going forward. Some of the areas covered in the discussion are outlined below. - [...]

With the merger of Xaxis and 24/7 Media, Caspar Schlickum, MD EMEA, Xaxis discusses the implications of the merger on the two WPP entities and the market in general. Why merge Xaxis and 24/7 Media now? What value does it add [...]

There is so much emphasis on customer data at the moment. In the search for a competitive edge, marketers are focused on gaining the most valuable insight and building smarter and stronger personal relationships with their customers. It should be no [...]

While everyone in the advertising industry is talking about technologies, such as data management platforms, and have an opinion regarding the value of data, lots of people forget to mention that there is a key challenge related to DMPs: the [...]