For those wondering how Brexit would affect the UK's adoption of the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), here's your answer: it won't. This week the UK government announced the Data Protection Bill (DPB), which is designed to align with the [...]

It's now less than a year until new data protection rules will be introduced in Europe. Known as the GDPR, the effects of the wide-reaching privacy protection regulation still seem to be shrouded in mist for the members of the ad tech [...]

A draft of a new ePrivacy regulation from the European Commission was leaked in December 2016. The final version (10/01/2017) has now been published as an official proposal from the EU Commission. The new regulation should replace the ePrivacy Directive [...]

2016 has truly shown how dynamic an ecosystem the digital advertising industry is. There have been highs and lows, but it has certainly been memorable. In a series of features reflecting on the past year and looking ahead to what [...]

From bringing up the rear, to blazing the trail: the programmatic landscape in Germany has taken its time to catch up with international markets. As the German programmatic market consolidates, the industry has come together to commit to minimum standards [...]

In the latest column from the IAB's Display Trading Council, council members give their views on what has changed in the programmatic space over the last two years. To borrow from John Hughes’ 1986 American teen comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – [...]

On 25 May 2018 the world will change. Personal data — arguably today’s most valuable currency and the lynchpin of digital advertising — will be managed by a strict new rulebook: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Writing exclusively for [...]

Wednesday (12 October), PwC and IAB UK released the latest digital ad spend study, with the long-awaited news that mobile ad spend (£802m) has taken over desktop spend (£762m) for the first time. In fact, it is mobile that has driven [...]

ExchangeWire round up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: AppNexus gets funded by News Corp. and supports LinkedIn ads; AppLovin sold to Chinese investors; Google updates ad products; No data exchange between Facebook [...]

What's the deal with rules and regulations surrounding anonymous data in the new EU GDPR? Prof Dr Christoph Bauer and Dr Frank Eickmeier (both pictured), ePrivacy GmbH explain for ExchangeWire what the GDPR states and how it can be interpreted and implemented [...]