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 [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up the key industry updates on ad tech across Europe, and in this week’s edition: SpotXchange steps-up Euro operations; Advertisers united in calls for transparency; Microsoft finds consumers demand more privacy; Key appointments in [...]

The Echo Chamber is a regular column, penned by Ciaran O'Kane, on all things ad tech, mar tech and programmatic Advertising technology is the blood and guts of content monetisation on the internet. For most, it is unglamorous and bereft of [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space, and in this week's edition: Germany's Fyber sells to RNTS Media; ExchangeWire begins ATS New York countdown; UK digital spend valued at £7bn a year; Ebuzzing [...]

Millennial Media has agreed to acquire mobile supply-side platform (SSP) Nexage in a deal worth $107.5m, in the latest round a period of unprecedented M&A activity in the programmatic advertising sector.  The deal announced today (23 September) will see the publicly-listed [...]

Walled gardens. Big media companies love walled gardens. Amazon, which was asked to speak at ATS London but predictably declined, has been aggressively pushing its data-driven bidder to most of the big trading desks globally. The new self-serve solution will be [...]

Ciaran O'Kane, ExchangeWire, global editor, muses over the potential impact of WPP's GroupM arm apparently halting the purchase of ad inventory from open exchanges. In this piece, he also speculates on whether or not Xaxis pivots to become the holding group's [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space.  1. Facebook acquires LiveRail  The big news this week was Facebook’s purchase of video SSP LiveRail for an undisclosed sum with the pairing of the two indicating the [...]

Researchers have tipped the UK mobile advertising expenditure to pass the £2bn mark this year as companies including Twitter, and mobile operator joint venture Weve aim to challenge the hegemony of Facebook and Google in the sector. UK mobile ad spend [...]

Singapore-based travel Wego has today (25 June) announced the launch of a private marketplace that lets global digital agencies and brand trading desks to bid on premium media placements based on insights gleaned from its Audience Engagement Platform. The launch of [...]