Greg Williams, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of OPEN partnerships at MediaMath, acknowledges that the ad tech industry's lack of transparency, and jargon, has made it difficult for marketers to commit to investing their budgets into one platform or another. In this piece [...]

Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus CEO, has established himself as one of the biggest names in the programmatic advertising sector, having first helped establish Right Media Exchange, and continuing his career after its $850m sale to Yahoo, with the founding of his [...]

One ExchangeWire source revisits the heady predictions of 2011, compared to market reality in 2014, and ultimately concludes that media spend is still allocated, by and large, the same way as it was in three years ago. Back in the dizzy [...]

New research from YuMe indicates that the TV is losing its prominence in terms of media consumption, but continues to dominate ad spend, pointing to a failure of the digital media industry to keep apace with its own innovations. Charting [...]

Tom Simpson, Mediaquark, CEO, shares insights on some of the common mistakes made by international companies looking to successfully crack the diverse APAC region. Singapore-based Simpson stresses the need for localisation (plus increased levels of education) in the APAC region [...]

The FT published an article documenting the levels of online ad fraud present on a recent Mercedes-Benz campaign earlier this week bringing the debate to a more mainstream audience. Jalal Nasir, Pixalate, co-founder, CEO, lifts the lid on some of the techniques [...]

Under-fire Rocket Fuel has moved to underline its credentials in the “arms race” between ad tech players and “scammers” after being cited in a critical FT article claiming a recent it participated in for Mercedez-Benz was plagued with click fraud [...]

AppNexus is to double its operations in Singapore, including the transfer of senior employees from its European and US operations, reflecting similar moves by programmatic players in APAC – a market estimated to be worth in excess of $1,892m by [...]

Digital ad spend in Europe increased by 11.9% last year to surpass the €27bn mark, with the UK extending its lead as the most developed market in the region, although growth in Western Europe’s second-largest market (Germany), was relatively [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. This week has proven exceptional in that major announcements from the ad tech sector were coming from marketing cloud providers, which could herald major disruption in the [...]