The ad tech sector is arguably the hottest part of the marketing industry right now with the word 'programmatic' on almost every C-level marketer's lips when talking about high-level strategy. Undoubtedly this is good news for the programmatic advertising industry, [...]

Jalal Nasir, Pixalate, CEO, and online fraud expert, shines a light on the latest loopholes exploited by nefarious elements of the digital economy, including naming some of the worst offenders, and urges the media industry at large to better protect itself from the problem.  “Hi, [...]

The decline of free marketing opportunities on social media and search engines, plus the growing rivalry between Facebook and Google, as well as an increased demand for cross-screen ad campaigns are all spurring the programmatic display ad sector, according to ExchangeWire sources.  The [...]

Speaking at a press lunch in Singapore this week, Mark Strecker, Amobee, CEO, and Steve Hoffman, CFO, (and Amobee’s M&A guy) shared insights with ExchangeWire's Wendy Hogan about the value of the Adconion/Kontera acquisitions as well as Amobee and Singtel’s ambitions for ad tech.  The Amobee cross-channel, cross-device [...]

Ajay Daved, PowerLinks Media, head of demand and revenue, explains how two of the hottest trends in digital advertising (native and programmatic) are helping to achieve standards in order to realise one of the biggest opportunities for advertisers in the current [...]

The WFA released an excellent programmatic guide this week. The report, written by Mikko Kotila (a notable programmatic trader and ATS speaker), focuses on best practices for brands working with agencies, trading desks and ad tech vendors in the programmatic [...]

Stephen Upstone, LoopMe, CEO, asks if mobile has just leapfrogged magazines, newspapers and radio, in terms of ad spend, could TV be next? And if so, how will it overtake the king of the ad revenue channels? Mobile display advertising is eating [...]

Transparency has been one of the key topics facing the ad tech sector in 2014, with issues such as click fraud, bot traffic and view ability generating reams of column inches, and propelling programmatic firms into mainstream press attention. Hence [...]

Paul Lyonette, YuMe, UK country manager, asks why advertising spend is lagging consumer usage when it comes to online video.  

With the emergence of mobile devices such as smartphone and tablets disrupting the traditional viewing experience in a way that was rarely foreseen by advertisers and technologists alike, Volker Ballueder, Civolution, sales director, explains how ad tech vendors are attempting [...]