AppNexus has confirmed its purchase of publisher forecasting and programmatic-direct company Yieldex, in a deal rumored to be valued at $100m, as the ad tech firm continues its acquisition spree, and prepares for the rise of programmatic-direct. The integration of Yieldex [...]

The worlds of ad tech and martech are increasingly colliding, which poses marketers with many questions to ask themselves about how they conduct their business from day-to-day, including where their roles fit within an organisation, and whether or not they [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the goings on in the world of ad tech during the last seven days, and in this week's edition: Rubicon Project posts impressive gains; Europe's OOH sector primed for programmatic disruption; European ad tech pairing [...]

Cross-device campaign management is one of the key challenges facing the ad tech sector at present, posing questions regarding attribution and retargeting, among others. Solutions are available to advertisers, but the key debate is whether to use 'deterministic', or 'probabilistic' modelling. Ahead [...]

Tim Vanderhook, Viant, and MySpace, CEO, speaks to ExchangeWire, on the launch of the company's latest 'advertising cloud' service, and how his company aims to offer value to advertisers from what was once the largest social network in the world, [...]

B2B network LinkedIn has announced the latest step in its longer term move towards an ad tech-led strategy, with the unveiling of its prospecting tool LinkedIn Lead Accelerator, which also helps marketers retarget users. The service lets marketers retarget visitors to [...]

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 Research's head of analysis Rebecca Muir draws up a definitive list of which companies will make waves in the ad tech and martech sectors, as well as the market dynamics that will lead to their increasing influence in 2015, [...]

Next year will be the year of mobile no more as the multiscreen audience prevails; the 'war on data' will become the 'war on identity'; and we'll see the emergence of the 'vertical walled garden'. Read more predictions for 2015 from Gareth Davies, [...]

ExchangeWire this week will round-off a monumental year in ad tech, with a special recording of its TraderTalk TV series in front of a LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE, with panel sessions featuring representatives of the industry's leading names reflecting on the [...]