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• Opportunities for Emerging Brands in Paid Search: Q&A with Mainline Menswear

  6 years ago News

  

  Search advertising continues to account for a significant proportion of overall ad spend, with £6.7bn being spent in these channels last year according to AA/WARC figures. In such a developed market, opportunities for smaller brands can be harder to come [...]

• Bidstack Announces Acquisition of Ad Fraud Prevention Company Pubguard

  6 years ago News

  

  Bidstack Group (LSE:BIDS), the in-game advertising group, has announced the acquisition of ad fraud prevention platform Pubguard. The move is designed to protect all of Bidstack’s gaming inventory by removing fraudulent ads and will help guarantee advertisers a brand safe [...]

• Mobile Ad Fraud Cost USD$2.3bn (£1.89bn) in H1 2019; Sizmek Finalises Peer39 Sale

  6 years ago News

  

  In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: Mobile ad fraud cost marketers over USD$2.3bn (£1.89bn) in H1 2019; 79% of UK marketers acknowledge cross-channel video [...]

• The Financial Times' Jess Barrett on Apple, Amazon and Facebook

  6 years ago Podcast

  

  On this week's episode of The MadTech Podcast, ExchangeWire's Ciaran O'Kane & Lindsay Rowntree are joined by Jess Barrett, global head of programmatic, The Financial Times, to discuss the latest news in ad tech and martech. On this week's episode: - Apple's [...]

• The Italian Programmatic & Martech Industry in 2019: Predictions & Reflections

  6 years ago News

  

  Advertising: a truly global industry. Whether this is at a form comprising of hastily-scrawled posters attached to telephone poles, or the totality of links within the complex programmatic supply chain serving countless ads across the world each second. Despite this, [...]

• Yield Management in a First-Price Auction World

  6 years ago News

  

  Following the announcement earlier in the year that Google Ad Exchange traffic will transition to a first-price auction model by late August to early September, the industry has been awash with queries as to how this will affect optimisation, and [...]

• Digital Identity, Blockchain & OTT: A Preview of ATS London

  6 years ago News

  

  As we approach the 10th anniversary of ATS London, ExchangeWire hosted a preview of what will be discussed and debated on the day. Paul Gubbins (pictured below), global programmatic strategy lead at Unruly, covers the hot topics at the preview, [...]

• The Capabilities of Biometric Testing: Q&A with David Wharram, Coast Digital

  6 years ago News

  

  With tracking becoming more restricted, advertisers are having to do more to extract as much value from their ad spend as possible, hence the rise of solutions mentioning "AI" at every turn. However more can also be done to measure [...]

• OpenX expands into Australia; Essence wins integrated media agency of record duties for ZEE5 India

  6 years ago News

  

  In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia Pacific region – in this edition: OpenX expands into Australia; Essence wins integrated media agency of record duties for ZEE5 India; Verizon Media [...]

• AA/WARC Q1 2019: UK Ad Spend Hits £6bn

  6 years ago News

  

  UK ad spend increased by 4.2% year on year to hit £6.0bn in the first quarter of 2019, according to the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report, released today Tuesday 30th July. Growth for the overall year is forecast to reach [...]