The European ad tech scene has never been in ruder health, with the trade press littered with news of funding rounds for start-ups here, yet the ‘European Google’ remains elusive and ad tech firms born and raised in Europe are [...]

Chip Meyers, ReactX CEO, asks why brands that are willing to take their media-buying in-house are not doing likewise with their creative?

The City of London Police have moved to further starve online pirates of ad funding by replacing display ads on copyright-infringing sites with official banners from the force, as part of its ongoing battle with more nefarious elements of the [...]

Separate moves to harmonise understanding in the ad tech space are taking place, with the IAB this week launching a pan-European Programmatic Trading White Paper along with a host of ad tech vendors to help agree definitions for the different elements [...]

ExchangeWire can confirm that UK-based ad trading platform Switch has bought ad sales house Unanimis for a publicly undisclosed fee in a deal that was executed earlier this week.

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space, including Facebook's mega-growth on mobile, Yahoo's big move when it comes to mobile, plus AOL committing further inventory to programmatic. Facebook posts rip-roaring results thanks [...]

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

Gareth Davies, AdBrain, CEO, gives ExchangeWire his take on this week’s multimillion dollar purchase of Flurry, and how it’s the latest move in a Silicon Valley arms race, but also explains to his thoughts this can prove risky for brands’ [...]

In 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 to survive in the [...]