ExchangeWire rounds up the week's biggest stories in ad tech, and in this week's edition: Apple crosses the Rubicon into programmatic; British consolidation move reflects the blurring world of ad- and martech; Millennial Media hires Gubbins; PubMatic eyes Italian opportunity.  Apple [...]

A number of deals involving some of the industry's biggest names, including MediaMath, Rubicon Project and, closer to home, Ve, have taken place in the last week, each of them signifying wider shifts in the ad tech and marketing sectors. ExchangeWire [...]

ExchangeWire caught up with Nate Woodman, IPONWEB's recently appointed GM of demand solutions, to discuss how his role was created to help bolster the ad tech firm's profile among clients, in a two-part interview.  In the first instalment he lifted the [...]

Trade magazine Campaign Asia-Pacific this week hosts the inaugural Marketing Innovation Summit, an event aimed specifically at educating brand marketers in the region about programmatic buying. ExchangeWire spoke with Gabriel Jor, the conference curator, to get insights into the impetus [...]

Nathan Woodman, was named as IPONWEB's first-ever GM of demand solutions earlier this month and will oversee the Russia-based company's positioning and expansion in the USA from its current embryonic North American base, stationed in New York City. This comes [...]

Facebook laid down a marker last year in terms of its ambitions in the ad tech sector with the $300m-plus purchase of ad server Atlas from Microsoft, and this year it caused a stir in the market by unveiling the improved [...]

In the countdown to this week's ATS Paris, ExchangeWire catches up with Fabien Magalon, La Place Media, CEO, to get his insights on the French market, plus the brand perspective on programmatic, including attempts to meet a reported skills gap [...]

AppNexus today (5 November) announced a tie-up with a host of third parties, including WPP's Xaxis, DoubleVerify, Integral AdScience, to agree a common currency on what constitutes click-fraud, and also announced an initiative where it won't charge advertisers for invalid traffic.  The [...]

Ad tech's meteoric rise is disrupting the current media landscape, but cross-device targeting, attribution and trading models, plus the 'closed vs. open ecosystem' debate must be addressed if the sector is to become the de-facto way for media to be [...]

Facebook will make its ATS debut this year in both New York and Paris to further explain its flagship ad tech product Atlas, which many have dubbed as a serious contender to Google's ad stack. ExchangeWire caught up with Lori [...]