The German programmatic market tipped for a period of sharp growth in 2014, as publishers there gradually open up to alternative models of monetising their digital inventory. With German publishers notoriously slow to embrace automated trading, Sebastian Romanus, managing director [...]

Matt Adams, DigitasLBi, deputy head of media, UK, employs a recent example of airline ads appearing next to stories about the missing Malaysian aircraft to explain that while technology and data may drive efficiency and sophisticated targeting, human sensitivity remains [...]

Shoring up ad viewability standards will be one of the key battlegrounds for the programmatic sector as the advertising industry enters the second quarter, with the Media Ratings Council (MRC) issuing its backing to several ad tech vendors in recent [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Matomy Bucks Ad Tech Trend And Opts For London Listing Israel-based ad tech firm Matomy this week revealed it aims to raise $100m by floating on the [...]

Jeremy Tester, Sky Media, director of insight, reveals plans for the further roll out of the broadcaster’s data-driven, insight and audience buying tools Sky IQ and AdSmart, as it aims to counter web-based interlopers that increasingly rival them for prominence [...]

German advertisers and publishers may currently lag smaller European economies, such as the UK and Belgium, in the uptake of real-time advertising, but separate studies show engagement rates among online audiencesthere are well above the European average, and the tide [...]

Jana Eisenstein, Videology, senior vice president, global accounts, explains that while content may be king, it is context that is critical, and calls for broadcasters to get programmatic buying on their agendas. ‘Content is King’ is a phrase we’ve all heard [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sylvain Deffay, Infectious Media's country manager, France, advises on how to best scrutinise the performance of ad budgets in a world of near constant technological change. The latest figures from French regulator the SRI reveal programmatic buying is maintaining an upward [...]