Advertisers are willing to pay enhanced prices for ad inventory bought using programmatic technology, but ad tech partners need to provide 100% transparency, and media owners must produce more engaging ad formats, according to Nestle's UK digital lead. Gawain Owen, Nestle, [...]

Brands have never been keener to put programmatic on the media plan, but with this increased demand comes scrutiny, propelling phrases such as 'transparency' to the core of the public industry discussion, as advertisers increasingly demand ROI. ExchangeWire speaks with [...]

What does a 'like' or retweet mean for your brand? Nothing much these days, it seems, as they come a dime a dozen. Instead, data has become increasingly important to enable advertisers to better engage their audience, but what remains [...]

The ad tech industry has become increasingly fragmented and has lost its focus of consumers over its failure to execute a cohesive user experience. It also needs to improve communication to achieve better transparency and build trust. These were among the [...]

In a new role, heading up strategic development for AppNexus across Europe, Nigel Gilbert has been looking at the key market indicators that could drive (and also hinder) the growth of programmatic. Here he discusses the notion of a level [...]

The IAB Europe has published a white paper laying down further guidelines on viewable ad impressions to stakeholders in the digital advertising sector across the continent. However leading figures in the publishing industry are making the case to advance the [...]

With large-scale publishers increasingly convinced of the benefits of pooling their resources to trade media via premium exchanges and therefore better compete with the likes of Google, ExchangeWire examines some of the issues around transparency and this model.   With the [...]

ExchangeWire rounds-up some of the biggest stories in the European ad tech scene, and in this week's edition: Asda preps ad exchange launch; Shazam rated as Britain's first $1bn tech firm; Facebook & Havas ink global Atlas deal; UK bodies [...]

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, [...]

January wouldn’t be January without the deluge of predictions which come forth from all corners of the online advertising boxing ring. Here, ExchangeWire Research’s Rebecca Muir gives her summary of the most popular themes which have emerged in some of [...]