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  • Ad Trader Conference: What Is The Reality Of The German Programmatic Market?

    When it comes to programmatic the Germans love to talk a good game. At the recent d3con event in Berlin most panels had seven-to-eight people talking up their programmatic buying and selling strategies. That's a lot of noise to have [...]

  • Is the future of data-driven advertising on smartphones a ‘native’ one?

    Native ad exchanges are a nascent sector in programmatic, with mobile specialists providing the next phase of growth in the specialism. ExchangeWire examines both the drivers of the trend, plus the (legitimate) reasons holding it back. Yahoo is the latest Silicon [...]

  • Engineering The Mobile Revolution

    With Facebook’s purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp for a colossal $19bn announced this week, it’s clear that mobile is crucial to any ad-funded business. However, as the digital economy enters the ‘post-PC era’ in full thrust, ad spend on the [...]

  • Why The ‘Good Internet’ And Programmatic Premium Will Cut Out The Rotten Core Of Digital Advertising

    Ciaran O’Kane, ExchangeWire global editor, reflects on how a ‘good’, or brand safe, internet can help advertisers and publishers reap the rewards of programmatic-buying, and tackles rampant inertia over click fraud, plus the lurking threats to the agency model status [...]

  • How AOL, Google And Yahoo Are Jockeying For Larger Brand Budgets

    The race to woo further lucrative brand advertising budgets to programmatic channels continues to heat up, with Google striking a deal with ComScore to improve real-time campaign measurement data, as the resurgent AOL commits to opening more premium ad inventory [...]

  • How Will Marketers Buy And Sell Media in 2020?

    What will it take to win in 2020? Looking six years into the future of digital media is no easy task, argues Scott Ferber, Videology, CEO. Three years ago, who could have predicted that 40% of all US brands would use [...]

  • Xaxis Continues Expansion With Bannerconnect Acquisition

    WPP trading desk Xaxis has built on its ambitious European expansion strategy, announcing the acquisition of Bannerconnect for an undisclosed fee, just days after it formally unveiled its Brand Suite to the UK advertising market. Xaxis announced the acquisition (the total [...]

  • Consortium To Combat Click Fraud Mooted

    Informal talks to establish a consortium of ad tech companies that would help establish an ‘industry standard’ way of measuring legitimate web traffic are understood to be taking place, as ‘click fraud’ continues to dog some of the industry’s biggest [...]

  • Industry Group formed To Help Deliver The Elusive 'Year Of Mobile'

    Google, Microsoft and UK mobile operator joint venture Weve are among companies attempting to win over more brand spend in the notoriously tricky mobile display ad market with the formation of an industry working group that intends to spread further [...]

  • Lifting The Lid On The Pandora’s Box Of Brand Safety

    Even with some unscrupulous publishers, negligent networks and careless agencies, brands can have as much safety as they are willing to pay for, writes Dan de Sybel, director of technology and operations, Infectious Media. The drive towards more transparency in [...]