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  • The Ongoing Search For Quality: Q&A with Dominic Trigg, OpenX

    ExchangeWire speaks with ad tech industry veteran, Dominic Trigg, about his role as vice president EMEA at OpenX; the industry changes he's seen throughout his time; along with the key challenges the industry is still tackling.  ExchangeWire: You recently joined OpenX [...]

  • Future-Facing Rubicon Project CEO Positive Despite Continued Losses

    Rubicon Project (NYSE:RUBI) released its Q2 2017 earnings after close of trading on 1 August, with a positive outlook coming from Rubicon CEO Michael Barrett, despite the company posting another quarter of losses. Revenue missed expectations across the board at USD$42.9m [...]

  • What is SPO & Why is Everybody Talking About It?

    If you work for an agency trading desk, programmatic buying unit, or client trading desk you are already doing it; if you work for an SSP, you will be responding to RFPs about it; if you are a publisher, you [...]

  • Is it Make or Break Time for UK Publishers?

    The UK’s media industry is at a precarious crossroads. There are regular reports in the press about the deterioration of ad revenues and the increasing dominance of the duopoly of Facebook and Google in the digital market. The News Media [...]

  • Do Go Chasing Waterfalls – As Long As They're Automated

    The waterfall is a dependable, yet seemingly outdated, technique allowing publishers to optimise their yield. But the waterfall isn't dead yet: according to Alex Bornyakov (pictured below), CEO, VertaMedia, it needs to become automated to maintain its relevance. Writing exclusively for [...]

  • It's R.I.P for SSPs: Here's Why

    SSPs are considered a necessary, and even vital, part of the digital ecosystem, providing a valuable link between publisher inventory and the DSPs and exchanges fielding its demand, allowing publishers to achieve maximum yield. However, argues Scott Braley (pictured below), [...]

  • Programmatic Publishing: Time to Repurpose Ad Tech

    Publishers are experiencing an ongoing period of transition, with Facebook being one of the main drivers of it. Ad tech, explains Mihai Fanache (pictured below), CEO, thenewsroom.io, needs to step in. Here, Fanache tells ExchangeWire that the publishers of tomorrow [...]

  • Where Header Bidding is a Tactic, Ad Decisioning Needs to Be the Strategy

    ExchangeWire recently attended PubMatic's Publisher Academy on the topic of 'Is Header Bidding Dead?', where Kirk McDonald, president, PubMatic, argued not, but that it is one stage in an evolution of ad tech and that the important goal is control over [...]

  • The Road to Effective Publisher Yield Management

    Holistic yield management: a popular solution for publishers to be able to effectively monetise their offering, yet still considered a distant mirage for many. ExchangeWire speak with Charles Yardley (pictured below), chief operational executive, City A.M., about their move into automated [...]

  • A Journey Through the Programmatic Supply Chain: Why You Should Focus on Trust & Value

    Do you know exactly how a programmatic ad impression gets from the publisher to the buyer? ExchangeWire asked Daniel Spears, (pictured below), programmatic director, Guardian News & Media for his advice for buyers and sellers on finding their way through the [...]