Walled gardens. Big media companies love walled gardens. Amazon, which was asked to speak at ATS London but predictably declined, has been aggressively pushing its data-driven bidder to most of the big trading desks globally. The new self-serve solution will be [...]

The ad tech sector is awash with money spurred by both private investment, plus funds generated by a raft of companies listing publicly, according to Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus, CEO. Speaking to ExchangeWire after his company was valued at $1.2bn after raising [...]

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 [...]

In the interests of helping to educate the mainstream marketing community, ExchangeWire has this year struck an agreement with trade body ISBA – the voice of British brand advertisers – to offer its members free entry to ATS London. ATS London – the industry's [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space, including Facebook and Google's attempts to further their lead on mobile, more acquisitions in the ad tech space, plus more expansion of US companies in Europe.  Facebook [...]

The ‘data crunchers’ and ‘creatives’ have historically been on polar opposite ends of the advertising industry spectrum, but as the digital era advances to a chapter marked ‘big data’ this is starting to change, as ad agencies more commonly associated [...]

The web has presented legacy publishers with a monetisation challenge they have yet to master, and the emergence of media consumption on handheld devices has posed them with an even more difficult quandary as they now compete with Silicon Valley [...]

In the second instalment of a two-part look at how the growing importance of ‘big data’ and the subsequent emergence of programmatic media-buying, ExchangeWire examines the potential threats it poses to traditional media businesses, and just how they must adapt [...]

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 [...]