There's a piece today in MarketingWeek about the OFT's report. The report points out that the online advertising industry could be doing more to "address consumer concerns over behavioural targeting". The OFT (Office of Fair Trading) has warned [...]

The cookie directive is an ill-conceived piece of legislation. The EU seems hell bent on destroying its nascent digital media industry, as the new law requires an opt-in for every cookie dropped on a user. If my business [...]

Malvertising is, according to Rubicon execs, putting about $600 million dollars of publisher revenue at risk every month. I take it that cost must include brand damage, loss of revenue due to drop in traffic (malware has led to [...]

Kwame Acheampong is Managing Director and Partner at Httpool. Httpool is an ad network that specialises in the Central and Eastern European markets, offering buying opportunities in these markets to UK agencies and advertisers. Acheampong took time to [...]

I would love to sit in on a Google strategy meeting some morning. It would be an education. As you watch all media becoming more digital, you can see the company encroaching on all fronts. Last week [...]

It’s been a busy weekend of news and speculation. The rumour mill is in overdrive among the New York advertising digerati. Peter Kafka has heard from “sources” that Google is about to buy Invite Media - and the [...]

Martin Kelly is Managing Partner at Infectious Media, an exchange-trading specialist based in London. Martin took time this week to speak to ExchangeWire about the company’s rebrand, the evolution of the UK exchange space and the continued growth of [...]

Marco Bertozzi is the Managing Director, EMEA, VivaKi Nerve Center. Vivaki is a strategic unit within Publicis Groupe that helps agencies leverage the scale of the group's media and digital operations to improve campaign performance for its clients. [...]

Qunatcast announced yesterday that they are moving into the European. They have hired Philip MacCauley, the former Director of Business Development and Commercial Relations at Yahoo!, to head up the operation. The feeling here in the market is [...]

Matthias Pantke is CEO of AdScale GmbH, Germany. Adscale is one of Germany's leading ad exchanges, trading nearly 6 billion impressions per month. Pantke took this week to speak to ExchangeWire about the Adscale platform, the size of [...]