Lindsay Rowntree
Chief Operating Officer
Lindsay Rowntree joined ExchangeWire in 2016 as Head of Content, and after growing the team to include three full-time editorial staff, became Director of Operations in 2021. Her role includes managing the day-to-day operations of ExchangeWire's business functions, as well as the content and marketing teams, across ExchangeWire's suite of products, including its global conference series, ATS. Lindsay also features on stage at ATS events, as well as in ExchangeWire's audiovisual products, including The MadTech Podcast and TraderTalkTV. She previously held the role of director of search, UK at Starcom MediaVest Group, where she spent six years, providing her with extensive experience in digital advertising, performance marketing, data, technology, client servicing and media planning/buying.Articles by Lindsay
Header Tag Bidding: Why Transparency Matters More Than Ever
Transparency within programmatic advertising is generally considered to be very widely talked about, but not very widely achieved. Ahead of the Index Exchange Digital Techfront being hosted at the IAB on 14 March on the topic of transparency, ExchangeWire speaks to [...]
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Martech is The New Ad Tech: The Reality of Ad Blocking
The worlds of ad tech and martech have long been on a collision course. The lines between the two are becoming more blurred with a cross-pollination of capabilities within both company sectors. However, there is resistance between them operating in [...]
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How Can EU Ad Tech Companies Crack the US Market?
Expansion into the US is an aspiration for many budding ad tech companies that have put down roots in EU markets. But, with cross-border barriers to entry and stiff competition in the home market, how can these EU ad techs [...]
That Emoji Ad Network: The Global Scale of Emotional Targeting
On Monday (19 February), Ciaran O’Kane, CEO, ExchangeWire published a piece as a precursor to the biggest mobile event of the year, Mobile World Congress. As well as touching upon the device graph and the rise of programmatic native, O’Kane [...]
Finding a Workaround for Effective Mobile Measurement
It's MWC week, so naturally, the spotlight is firmly planted on mobile and in this piece, mobile measurements. Despite common beliefs, the technology required to measure the return on a mobile ad investment (particularly within apps) is fairly robust nowadays. [...]
Google's Search Listings Update Potential Blow for SEO & Smaller Advertisers
Last Friday (19 February) Google appeared to surreptitiously remove all ads from the right hand side of the search engine results page (SERP). At the same time, they bumped up the number of ads that appear at the top of [...]
Is Network-Level Ad Blocking a Lose-Lose Situation?
On Friday (19 February) the mobile network operator (MNO) Three delivered the news that, in partnership with Shine Technologies, it would introduce network-level ad blocking to all customers in the UK and Italy. Cue gasps and shaking of heads across Europe – [...]
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Programmatic TV Across the Atlantic: What Can the UK Learn From the US?
Programmatic TV is arguably a complete reinvention of the TV ecosystem and, in the US at least, is a market of scale. In the UK, it’s a slightly different picture; but with companies like Sky investing heavily in their addressable offering and a [...]
Driving Creativity in the Age of the Math Men
The discussion rages on about whether data and creativity can harmoniously co-exist in the new era of digital advertising. If data is what determines whether a person is a relevant target, then creativity is what determines whether that person will eventually become [...]














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