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  • 'If your strategy is built around just multi-channel and acquisition, you will become a commoditised toolset'

    UK-based digital advertising veteran Kate Burns, recently joined cloud marketing company SHIFT, as managing director for UK and Europe (its first operations outside of its US base), as it aims to take on more established marketing cloud service providers such [...]

  • Programmatic or Premium? If You Think You Have To Choose, You’re Doing It Wrong

    Ahead of this year’s Ad Trader conference hosted in Berlin, Graham Moysey, AOL, head of international, tells publishers there that selling ads programmatically need not involve selling inventory at bargain basement prices. The idea that ad buyers and sellers should have [...]

  • When Ad Tech Arrived At Ad Week

    '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 [...]

  • AppNexus Debuts Research Study To Bolster Programmatic Understanding

    AppNexus has taken 2014’s Ad Week Europe to unveil its latest partnership with research body Warc, as it aims to position itself at the vanguard of increased investment in programmatic by brand-side advertisers. Speaking at the Ad Week Europe conference, hosted [...]

  • AOL Aims To Clear Up The ‘Chaos’ Of Ad Tech With One Platform

    Buoyed by its most positive financial figures in the last 10 years, AOL has made clearing up the “chaos” ad tech its mission with the unveiling of AOL Platforms – essentially a rebrand of AOL Networks – plus the launch [...]

  • The Rise Of Multi-Screen, And Why ‘Last-Click’ Has To Go

    The consumer shift towards accessing the web on multiple devices, plus the (albeit nascent) emergence of connected TVs, has prompted advertisers to transition towards a more holistic model of campaign optimisation, and addressing how they attribute their media spend. The [...]

  • The Debate: Public Vs. Private Exchanges

    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 [...]

  • Why Machines Can’t Totally Replace Humanity

    Matt Adams, DigitasLBi, deputy head of media, UK, employs a recent example of airline ads appearing next to stories about the missing Malaysian aircraft to explain that while technology and data may drive efficiency and sophisticated targeting, human sensitivity remains [...]

  • Taking Aim At Cyber Scammers To Ensure Traffic Quality

    Cameran Harman, OpenX, managing director, EMEA, explains that while the programmatic industry as a whole is generally in rude health, it is one besieged by nefarious parties, and how combatting fraud is everyone in the industry’s job. An Industry [...]

  • Viewability Comes Into Focus

    Shoring up ad viewability standards will be one of the key battlegrounds for the programmatic sector as the advertising industry enters the second quarter, with the Media Ratings Council (MRC) issuing its backing to several ad tech vendors in recent [...]