Facebook is building on its momentum in the ad tech space with the announcement of the global launch of its Audience Network (FAN) tool, which is now available with host of new features, after an earlier trial this year.  FAN lets [...]

Ben Crain, Improve Digital, CSO, says publishers looking to increase their RTB revenues using a First Look media trading model can seriously impact upon their bottom line.  There are a number of very important considerations when undertaking any kind of exclusive [...]

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, [...]

US-based Quantcast has announced the acquisition of UK-based retargeting firm Struq for an undisclosed fee, in what is the latest in a long line of M&A activity in the ad tech sector this year.  Struq will now become past of Quantcast [...]

Facebook and Google are among the key industry stakeholders to flaunt their wares at arguably advertising's biggest event this this week, and a consistent theme in their messaging appears to be 'programmatic' and 'cross-screen', as the industry prepares to lay [...]

Publicis Groupe has kicked off its Advertising Week, New York, activity announcing a six-year tie-up with AOL that will see the ad tech firm  provide programmatic video and linear TV services to the France-based advertising behemoth, building on its Adobe [...]

Serving mobile users with retargeted ads is widely regarded as an impossibility given cookies’ lack of effectiveness on such devices compared to desktop, and the industry’s lack of consensus on establishing a universal ID. But Luis Barrague, Headway Digital, VP [...]

Speaking at a press lunch in Singapore this week, Mark Strecker, Amobee, CEO, and Steve Hoffman, CFO, (and Amobee’s M&A guy) shared insights with ExchangeWire's Wendy Hogan about the value of the Adconion/Kontera acquisitions as well as Amobee and Singtel’s ambitions for ad tech.  The Amobee cross-channel, cross-device [...]

Speaking at ATS Tokyo this morning (16 September), Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus, CEO, told attendees the ad tech sector was ripe for both commoditisation and consolidation, as companies like Google attempted to “own” the sector. Elsewhere, attendees where advised on the [...]

Danny Hopwood, Vivkai, head of platform, EMEA, gives his assessment of the current programmatic landscape in light of recent industry consolidation. At the risk of overusing the latest buzzword, we are in a period of serious consolidation.  It was inevitable due [...]