With header bidding the norm at all top publishers, first-price auctions should be a matter of course, argues Kay Schneider (pictured below), general manager, SmartX Platform, smartclip, in this exclusive byline for ExchangeWire, and explains why a change from second-price auctions [...]

In September, ad-optimisation company, Yieldbird, announced a new partnership with Brainly, an education technology publisher, which offers a unique platform for sharing knowledge amongst students, across 35 languages. ExchangeWire speaks exclusively with Przemysław Oborski, business development manager, Brainly, and Bartłomiej Chmiel, [...]

Publisher monetisation is a global challenge, but there isn't a global, one-size-fits-all solution. ExchangeWire speaks with Bartłomiej Chmiel (pictured below), managing director of Yieldbird, ad inventory optimisation specialists, headquartered in Poland, with strong presence in the Central and Eastern Europe [...]

Will programmatic buying and selling replace the need for sales teams? No, of course it won’t. However, it will require a new set of skills to be honed, writes Paul Gubbins (pictured below), independent ad tech consultant, exclusively for ExchangeWire. Having [...]

With transparency, arguably, being one of the hottest topics in the advertising field in 2017, PubMatic is standing firm on transparency needing to go deeper than clarity around fees and the source of inventory. As highlighted with the company’s ‘Let’s [...]

As the world becomes increasingly mobile-oriented, ensuring mobile publishers are capturing maximum yield is of great importance, and something mobile platform Mozoo is keen to address. ExchangeWire speaks with Max Pepe, VP marketing, Mozoo, about the company's recent acquisition of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]