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 [...]

Tim Abraham, Adbrain, director, data platforms, discusses the choices facing advertisers when faced with the prospect of choosing which ad tech providers to partner with.  Selecting the right technology partner is one of the most challenging prospects facing media businesses today, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

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’ [...]

With the emergence of mobile devices such as smartphone and tablets disrupting the traditional viewing experience in a way that was rarely foreseen by advertisers and technologists alike, Volker Ballueder, Civolution, sales director, explains how ad tech vendors are attempting [...]

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 [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space.  1. Facebook acquires LiveRail  The big news this week was Facebook’s purchase of video SSP LiveRail for an undisclosed sum with the pairing of the two indicating the [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. Programmatic pegged at 28% of UK display ad market Nearly one-in-three pounds spent on display advertising were bought using programmatic technologies in the UK last year according to [...]