Ciaran O'Kane
Founder and Advisor
Ciaran O’Kane is the Founder and Advisor to WireCorp, the publishing holding group focused on the digital advertising, retail technology and gaming sectors. He has worked in digital advertising over the last twenty years as a developer, digital marketer, ad operations provider, media monetisation specialist and senior sales executive. He continues to write editorial for ExchangeWire on advertising technology, marketing technology and programmatic - and acts as an advisor to a number of leading digital media companies in Europe.Articles by Ciaran
Publicis Acquires 20% Of Matomy For £40m
Publicis announced this morning that it is acquiring 20% of Matomy for approximately £40m, with an option to increase its stake in the company to 24.9%, that would raise the value of the deal to £51m, in the latest round [...]
ATS Comes To New York On 4 November; Event Agenda Now Published
ATS is now on three continents - well, it will be from 4 November, when the inaugural ATS New York will take place. ExchangeWire will make its US debut where it will again facilitate debate with a deep technology and data focus, as [...]
Opening Up The Programmatic Native Opportunity To Buyers
Ajay Daved, PowerLinks Media, head of demand and revenue, explains how two of the hottest trends in digital advertising (native and programmatic) are helping to achieve standards in order to realise one of the biggest opportunities for advertisers in the current [...]
WFA Report Gives Guidance On How To Work With Programmatic Service Providers
The WFA released an excellent programmatic guide this week. The report, written by Mikko Kotila (a notable programmatic trader and ATS speaker), focuses on best practices for brands working with agencies, trading desks and ad tech vendors in the programmatic [...]
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ExchangeWire European Weekly Round-Up
ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week's edition: AppNexus bags $100m in new funding ; mobile overtakes desktop as main channel for publishers; SoundCloud realises it has to make [...]
Why Agencies & Intermederies Must Evolve With The Shift To Closed Ad Ecosystems And Marketing Automation
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 [...]
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RTL Buys 65% of SpotXchange For $144 Million, As Big Media Players Look To Shore Up Programmatic Video Tech
There is a feeding frenzy going on in the online video tech space at the moment - with big media business looking to shore up their programmatic video tech as brand money shifts into the data-driven online video market. [...]
How The GroupM Ad Exchange Will Disrupt The Dynamic Of The Programmatic Supply Market
Ciaran O'Kane, ExchangeWire, global editor, muses over the potential impact of WPP's GroupM arm apparently halting the purchase of ad inventory from open exchanges. In this piece, he also speculates on whether or not Xaxis pivots to become the holding group's [...]
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