GroupM’s purchase of Germany-based Plista for a reputed €30m indicates an increased appetite for data-driven solutions among the industry’s big players, but also points to mounting pressure facing third-party tech partners as we enter 2014. This week WPP’s investment arm GroupM [...]

The title of this post is clearly a cop out, as it is intended to hedge my chances of complete and abject failure come the retrospective at the end of 2014. But I feel the predictions for this year [...]

Earlier this week UK trade bodies representing brands, advertisers and the ad tech communities agreed a set of guidelines aimed at providing greater transparency in the online ad trading sector, bringing a near three-year deadlock to an end. The newly formed [...]

At our recent ATS event in Paris, we gathered a number of senior European ad tech execs to discuss how customisation will define the programmatic space going forward. Some of the areas covered in the discussion are outlined below. - [...]

There has been so much written recently about 'programmatic'. Everything is 'programmatic' these days. What does it all mean? Who knows? Data-driven decision making? RTB-enabled buying? Automated selling? Ad-serving? ...anyone? It might seem like spin, and probably is, but the simple [...]

IPONWEB launches its BidSwitch today at DMEXCO. With the number of bidders and customised solutions exploding, BidSwitch is seen as an attempt to solve the fragmentation problem in global programmatic supply and demand. Here Derek O'Neil, Chief Business [...]

For years the Lumascape was the standard bearer for the ad tech industry. It confused and perplexed everyone in the industry alike. So many boxes. So many point solutions. Where did it begin and where did it end? How could [...]

There are no obvious symptoms for this new ailment in the digital advertising space, but the effects of "ad tech fatigue" can be seen everywhere particularly among the industry trades. This week we were treated to a number of [...]

ExchangeWire wrote a piece recently on why local publishers should build out the SME platform, leveraging the already existing relationships that they have with local businesses. It is interesting to see 1&1 in the UK really aggressively going after the local [...]

Sylvain Deffay is Country Manager, France at Infectious Media. The growing involvement of publishers and technology partners has fuelled French programmatic buying progress. StickyAds Video Exchange’s recent integration with TubeMogul’s buying platform has allowed access to French premium video inventory. This [...]