Brian O'Kelley wrote an interesting piece for Clickz this week on why ad nets are an essential part of the online ad eco-system. He argues that ad networks are entitled to earn good margin on ROI delivered to agencies and [...]

Malvertising continues to plague the display market here in Europe, threatening publishers with severe losses in terms of ad revenue and resource required to unearth and remove unwanted scripts from ad servers. Increasingly criminals are seeing display advertising as [...]

» Click fraud continues to be a major problem for online advertisers. The ClickForensics report points to a rise in click fraud across the globe. Based on data collected from more than 300 ad networks, the Click Fraud [...]

» Brent Halliburton does a great post on second-price auctions on Cogblog this week. Halliburton talks about some of the issues around the second-bid auctions, and how floor pricing can affect it. One of his key examples of [...]

» And so the first chinks of information are making their way into public domain about the Times' "daring" paywall strategy. The Guardian makes some "guestimates" on traffic numbers over at thetimes.co.uk since it introduced its mandatory registration page [...]

There had been rumours last week that DGM was struggling financially, and it seems those industry whispers have now been confirmed. DGM is informing creditors, and has officially gone into administration. Founded in 1999, DGM was one of [...]

Google's partnership with Omnicom to build out the agency's trading desk with the view of putting hundreds of millions of display dollars through automated channels (Google's mostly) could well be a transformational moment for the display market. I could [...]

Daniel de Sybel (@ddesybel) is Director of Technology and Operations at Infectious Media.. Today Dan discusses the the issue of privacy, and what the online ad industry will need to do to address some of the growing concerns around [...]

I find it laughable when people in the online ad industry baulk at publishers becoming media buyers. There is a general consensus that media buyers have a specific role in the marketplace and that publishers should just stick to [...]

Comscore released some interesting data yesterday, indicating that cheap social media inventory is causing a significant drag on overall CPM prices. According to the Comscore numbers, the average CPM – without social media inventory included – stands at around [...]