As we end the first quarter of 2018, we are in midst of a momentous year of change for the programmatic industry and the wider digital industry. Ahead of his keynote speech at ATS Madrid on 12 April, Simon Halstead [...]

When an Irish person tells you in a moment of crisis that, "you’ll be grand", you truly are in a world of trouble. Things are far from 'grand' in digital advertising. Google and Facebook completely dominate the market. Their market [...]

Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that will transform the way we exchange value. However, writes Carolina Abenante (pictured below), president and co-founder, NYIAX, exclusively for ExchangeWire, in order for it to clean up the inefficiency and fraud plaguing ad tech, stakeholders [...]

Holding groups are under pressure. Their business model has been questioned and undermined by everyone over the past 12 months – from trade-press hacks, to auditors, to client bodies, to grandstanding FMCG CMOs. The relevancy of the agency function has [...]

2017 has seen quite a few changes across the digital advertising ecosystem, but will we have to look forward to next year? In a series of features reflecting on the past year, and looking ahead to what we can expect [...]

The discussion around the convergence of ad tech and martech shows no sign of abating, with analyst firm Forrester Research releasing a report last month dedicated to the subject: Kick Start Your AdTech/MarTech Convergence. In addition to providing advice for [...]

Blockchain is already changing the way global industries perform transactions and share data. And now, the IAB Tech Lab is kicking off a Blockchain Working Group to explore ways to leverage blockchain to improve efficiency and value realisation in digital [...]

Consultancies have been busy acquiring creative agencies and leveraging their existing end-to-end relationship with clients to build market share in digital marketing. Deloitte, IBM, Accenture, and McKinsey are all building internal capabilities to attract more business from brand marketers. Creative seems [...]

Today (8 September), ID5 is launched, aiming to help improve cookie synchronisation across the digital advertising ecosystem. Cookies are the default means of identifying users online. Identifying users via a cookie isn’t as bad as people believe, but the key challenge here is [...]

Programmatic marketplace optimisation continues to force change across the buy and sell side of the ad tech ecosystem, as deal flow stayed active over the summer months. Signs of consolidation and/or specialisation (buy or sell side) are abundant; in other [...]