In July 2014, Facebook acquired LiveRail, for an unconfirmed amount of USD$500m (£347m). Known as a prominent video ad exchange at the time, what was less known about LiveRail was that it also housed an ad server. In January 2016, Facebook announced [...]

The worlds of ad tech and martech have long been on a collision course. The lines between the two are becoming more blurred with a cross-pollination of capabilities within both company sectors. However, there is resistance between them operating in [...]

Expansion into the US is an aspiration for many budding ad tech companies that have put down roots in EU markets. But, with cross-border barriers to entry and stiff competition in the home market, how can these EU ad techs [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Google AMP is here; Rubicon Project returns profit in 2015; Bidder for App by OpenX; xAd releases ad-buying tool; and Teads reports [...]

It's MWC week, so naturally, the spotlight is firmly planted on mobile and in this piece, mobile measurements. Despite common beliefs, the technology required to measure the return on a mobile ad investment (particularly within apps) is fairly robust nowadays.  [...]

On Friday (19 February) the mobile network operator (MNO) Three delivered the news that, in partnership with Shine Technologies, it would introduce network-level ad blocking to all customers in the UK and Italy. Cue gasps and shaking of heads across Europe – [...]

Programmatic TV is arguably a complete reinvention of the TV ecosystem and, in the US at least, is a market of scale. In the UK, it’s a slightly different picture; but with companies like Sky investing heavily in their addressable offering and a [...]

In this week's LATAM Roundup: RTB House launches its Latin American operations and the first local office, in Sao Paulo, Brazil; another acquisition for WPP Group in Brazil – and according to specialists, more acquisitions to come, in general, with [...]

It's the mobile industry's big week – when thousands of opinion formers, C-level execs, and journalists from the mobile industry flock to Barcelona to discuss all things mobile for a full week. Amid the blizzard of hardware launches and high-level keynotes [...]

Following OpenX’s successful launch of its School of Programmatic initiative last month (a series of workshops designed to fill the knowledge gaps and supply the skills and know-how to make the most of programmatic), Tuesday [16 February] saw the release [...]