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 [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Publicis/Omnicom Merger Receives Green Light In Europe, So What Will This Mean For Accuen And Vivaki? The merger is quite rightly billed as one of the [...]

Can you give some overview on the recent trends in the Russian market? The Russian digital advertising market continues its yearly double-digit expansion, even as the underlying increase in internet population has gradually decelerated, hovering now around 70% audience penetration. What’s fuelling [...]

Video advertising is radically transforming how and where brands connect with audiences. It’s a transformation driven by consumer behaviour. People are now watching video, not just via the TV but on their tablets, smartphones as well as their computers, when they [...]

You wake up. You check your mobile phone. You see an advert for that tasty Toyota model you’ve been checking out recently. On the way into work, you’re playing Angry Birds on your tablet, and the mobile ads alongside show more [...]

smartclip, the multiscreen and brand advertising platform, and LG Electronics announced on Friday that smartclip will monetise all ad inventory on the LG Smart TV Platform across Europe, Russia and Australia. The partnership with LG Smart TV offers advertisers a [...]

Rhys McLachlan is Head of Corporate & Business Development (UK) Videology Group/TidalTV. Here he discusses the emergence of connected TV and its likely implications for the online advertising space. The annual nerd-fest migration to Las Vegas in early January to attend [...]

Adform Continues International Expansion With Opening of Portuguese Office Display advertising specialist Adform announced last week their opening a new regional office in Lisbon, Portugal. The move comes as a result of an increase in media agencies and online advertisers looking [...]

Stephen Hunt TubeMogul's Asia-Pacific Director talks candidly about the challenges the online video industry currently faces: demand outstripping supply; publishers holding on to unsold inventory to protect its value; and lack of transparency in video advertising and the industry's absence of [...]

Managing Director of Adap.tv, Phil Duffield, discusses their increasing activity in the Australian, South East Asian and Japanese marketplaces.   He says how the adoption of traditional media buying by today’s industry has created silos in TV and video resulting in [...]