Audience data is undeniably an important ingredient in any ad campaign, but some marketers are misusing such data to achieve easy success. ExchangeWire spoke with Bryan Melmed, global vice president of insights at Exponential Interactive, who championed the use of [...]

Tim Faircliff, AOP, chairman, discusses the mechanics of the recently announced premium publisher alliance - or co-op - that is to be powered by AppNexus, which has several of the UK's tier-one publishers as founding members. EW: What does the new [...]

eBay Advertising has announced the creation of a 'channel agnostic' agency sales team offering increased scope for automated media buying following lessons learned during its 'Programmatic Only Week'. This comes just a day after AppNexus revealed it bought Yieldex to [...]

AppNexus has confirmed its purchase of publisher forecasting and programmatic-direct company Yieldex, in a deal rumored to be valued at $100m, as the ad tech firm continues its acquisition spree, and prepares for the rise of programmatic-direct. The integration of Yieldex [...]

Viewability. It's one of they key issues facing the online advertising industry, as brands - wary of getting scammed - ask for ever-increasing levels of transparency; with oil giant Shell now asking for FIVE TIMES the industry standard before it [...]

The worlds of ad tech and martech are increasingly colliding, which poses marketers with many questions to ask themselves about how they conduct their business from day-to-day, including where their roles fit within an organisation, and whether or not they [...]

Advertisers are willing to pay enhanced prices for ad inventory bought using programmatic technology, but ad tech partners need to provide 100% transparency, and media owners must produce more engaging ad formats, according to Nestle's UK digital lead. Gawain Owen, Nestle, [...]

Digital media, and especially buying it programmatically is still seen as an 'emerging platform' in Latin America, this is despite audiences there spending more time online compared to those elsewhere, according to Victor Lopez, Affiperf, programmatic media director, Miami. In [...]

The ad tech industry has become increasingly fragmented and has lost its focus of consumers over its failure to execute a cohesive user experience. It also needs to improve communication to achieve better transparency and build trust. These were among the [...]

Declan Kennedy, StitcherAds, CEO, a Facebook Marketing Partner recounts his experiences as one of the first Facebook Marketing Partners to integrate Facebook Product Ads. The announcement last week from Facebook on its new Product Ads has certainly added fuel to the proverbial [...]