Europe's mega ad tech/digital advertising/digital media week is nearly upon us – when senior level agency, marketer and tech execs descend on Cologne with big volume deals to sign and custom algos to flog. All of this will of course be kicked [...]

ExchangeWire Research’s weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world, with additional insight provided by Rebecca Muir, ExchangeWire, head of research and analysis. In this week’s edition: UK ad viewability falls below 50%; US programmatic spend reaches [...]

In this week’s ExchangeWire European Weekly Roundup: marketing technology unicorn, Zeta, receives mega funding round of $125 million; the rebate debate continues to rage in ad land; Beeswax launches its BaaS to reduce bespoke bidder-building costs; and video streaming powerhouse [...]

Using trading models originally designed to secure pricing guarantees for 18th-century agricultural traders, media futures trading is at the very vanguard of the ad tech revolution. ExchangeWire learns more about how futures trading is being lifted from more traditional commodities, [...]

There's been some interesting press releases sent out this week. Two in particular stand out, and both involve Microsoft, with AOL and AppNexus playing their part. In this piece, ExchangeWire will leverage its industry-leading analysis team to ask what this [...]

Six months after its formal launch, ExchangeWire Research has increased its headcount with the appointment of its first full-time research analyst, Anya Fenge-Davies. Fenge-Davies joins head of research and analysis Rebecca Muir and will assist in the rollout of the [...]

IAB figures released today (29 June) demonstrate the slow death of the traditional ad network business model, as automated media-buying technologies, and trading models, become increasingly popular with advertisers, and media-owners alike. Almost half (45%) of all online display ads are [...]

In this ExchangeWire Cannes Lions special, Matt Gillis, Millennial Media, president, platform business, speaks with ExchangeWire CEO Ciaran O'Kane about whether publishers are able to use programmatic technologies to achieve a better yield for their inventory. During the conversation O'Kane [...]

Campaigns comprising display and mobile ads should be developed together so retargeting can be carried out seamlessly; but differences in consumer experience must be addressed. Yann Aïtbachir, PocketMath's director of product development, said the mobile RTB ecosystem needed to consider [...]

Catherine Williams, Chief Data Scientist at AppNexus, speaks to ExchangeWire about the launch of APB and how it is helping marketers find “a third way” to optimise their ad spend through their use of their data. EW: Some people have [...]