'Fragmentation Feeds The Need For Automation', that was pretty much the message here. The mobilisation of consumers, cross-device targeting, wearable tech, these are all key trends at Ad Week Europe currently being hosted in London. Here the ad tech [...]

The Rubicon Project announced today it will IPO on the NYSE under the ticker RUBI. It will initially offer 6.8 million shares at a price of $15 to the public. The IPO comes after speculation that the Californian-based ad tech [...]

Ahead of next month’s Ad Trader Conference hosted in Berlin, Dimo Velev, OpenX, regional director, DACH, asks how can German publishers thrive in the era of big data given the more stringent privacy laws there, compared to the rest of [...]

The German programmatic market tipped for a period of sharp growth in 2014, as publishers there gradually open up to alternative models of monetising their digital inventory. With German publishers notoriously slow to embrace automated trading, Sebastian Romanus, managing director [...]

German advertisers and publishers may currently lag smaller European economies, such as the UK and Belgium, in the uptake of real-time advertising, but separate studies show engagement rates among online audiencesthere are well above the European average, and the tide [...]

Jana Eisenstein, Videology, senior vice president, global accounts, explains that while content may be king, it is context that is critical, and calls for broadcasters to get programmatic buying on their agendas. ‘Content is King’ is a phrase we’ve all heard [...]

Martin Stockfleth Larsen, Adform CMO, uses insights from Adfrom’s latest European trends report to show that programmatic ad trading is generating record CPMs for publishers (up 67% year-on-year), but despite all this, publishers are continuing to see that channel as [...]

When it comes to programmatic the Germans love to talk a good game. At the recent d3con event in Berlin most panels had seven-to-eight people talking up their programmatic buying and selling strategies. That's a lot of noise to have [...]

Native ad exchanges are a nascent sector in programmatic, with mobile specialists providing the next phase of growth in the specialism. ExchangeWire examines both the drivers of the trend, plus the (legitimate) reasons holding it back. Yahoo is the latest Silicon [...]

Sylvain Deffay, Infectious Media's country manager, France, advises on how to best scrutinise the performance of ad budgets in a world of near constant technological change. The latest figures from French regulator the SRI reveal programmatic buying is maintaining an upward [...]