Xaxis has announced the full integration of 24/7 Media to create “the world’s largest” programmatic outfit, with Caspar Schlickum being elevated to the newly-created role of EMEA CEO, crowning a series of high-level moves within the WPP trading desk. This [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Programmatic buying continues to dominate video advertising conversations, and the ad tech industry can expect it to move further into the mainstream of media buying strategies in 2014. But the industry must reform some of its ways before this happens, [...]

Earlier this week UK trade bodies representing brands, advertisers and the ad tech communities agreed a set of guidelines aimed at providing greater transparency in the online ad trading sector, bringing a near three-year deadlock to an end. The newly formed [...]

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 [...]

According to an AdEx Benchmark 2012 study, published by IAB Europe, Russia ranks fourth in Europe in terms of its online advertising market (€1.6 billion in 2012). The Russian market has grown at an impressive annual rate of 34%. The [...]

IPONWEB launches its BidSwitch today at DMEXCO. With the number of bidders and customised solutions exploding, BidSwitch is seen as an attempt to solve the fragmentation problem in global programmatic supply and demand. Here Derek O'Neil, Chief Business [...]