Mathew Broughton

Research Lead
Mat Broughton joined the ExchangeWire team in March 2019 as Editor. After a brief stint as editor at ExchangeWire's sister publication, TheGamingEconomy, Mat is now Research Lead at ExchangeWire, running creation, analysis and report production of ExchangeWire's suite of research products. Before joining the company he worked as a project manager working within the telecoms and travel marketing industries. Mat graduated from the University of Liverpool with an honours degree in Biological Sciences.Articles by Mathew
Appodeal Introduces Stack, Scales Mobile App Businesses; S4Capital announces strong Q1 2019 growth
In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: Appodeal introduces Stack; S4Capital announces strong Q1 2019 growth; FEPE International to rebrand as World Out of Home [...]
Live Data Use in Digital Out-of-Home Campaigns: Q&A with Neil McKenney, DOOH.com
The digital out-of-home (DOOH) market is one of the most rapidly growing sectors within advertising, with the global market predicted to be worth USD$11.33bn (£8.78bn) by 2023. However the market is poorly understood compared to ‘traditional’ forms of digital media, [...]
In-Vehicle Advertising & Use of Varied Ad Formats: Q&A with Maude Menant, Waze
In-vehicle advertising is an area which is due to accelerate growth in the DOOH (digital out-of-home) market, with a wide array of carpooling and navigation apps set to capitalise on this sector. Following her keynote speech at ATS Paris on [...]
Publicis Group Acquires Epsilon: Data Implications & Reaction
Earlier in April, Publicis Groupe announced an agreement with Alliance Data Systems Corporation to purchase their marketing unit Epsilon, for a price of USD$4.4bn (£3.4bn), making it the largest ever acquisition by the French advertising group, and one of the [...]
In-Housing & Consultancies: Q&A with Alessandra Di Lorenzo, Forward
In-housing is a trend that has been on the rise as programmatic has matured, with the IAB recently suggesting that 86% of brand advertisers in programmatic either fully in-housed their buying functions or have partially moved these processes. In recognition of [...]
2018 IAB UK & PwC Digital Adspend Study: The Market Grows
The UK digital advertising market is worth £13.44bn, an increase year-on-year of 15%, reveals the 2018 IAB UK & PwC Digital Adspend Study. Report highlights The majority of all growth is coming from smartphone advertising, which has increased by £1.65bn (35%) from [...]
The Future Is 5G: How New Mobile Tech Will Take Advertising into the 5th Generation
5G, the next generation of mobile internet connectivity, promises to open up a plethora of new avenues and opportunities to advertisers. Despite recent negative publicity revolving around concerns such as national security and 'deceptive' practices being employed by current 4G [...]
Understanding ITP: Q&A with Matthew Pepper, Sub2
Whilst Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) is not a new phenomenon – having been used on Apple's Safari browser in its current iteration since late-2018 – it is likely to be one of the most significant talking points in the ad [...]
Overcoming Challenges Within Programmatic & Publishing: Q&A with Pierre Chappaz, Teads
The skies above programmatic advertisers and publishers have for a while seemed to be naught but rolling dark rain clouds, laden with the rains of industry challenges such as lack of transparency and budget squeezes. Positive results for ad spend [...]
Pinterest IPO: Prospects for Advertisers
2019 has long promised to be a bumper year for IPOs, with Lyft going public earlier in the year (28 March), reportedly due to be followed by companies such as Zoom, Slack, Global Switch, and the much-hyped Uber. One IPO, [...]
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