There was a lot of M&A this year in advertising technology. According to Eric Franchi's ad tech M&A tracker, there were eighteen acquisitions in excess of USD$100m (£68.4m) in 2016 - with a combined total of nearly USD$10bn (£6.8bn). This [...]

A band of publishers in Thailand have banded to form a new co-op with the aim to plug the lack of "trustworthy and scalable" inventory as well as quality data they say advertisers badly need. Slated for launch in February [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sum up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Spotify APAC tune up programmatic campaigns; Dentsu buy Indian design studio; MEC unveil Wavemaker in China; WPP [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sum up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Singapore retailers need contextual marketing; IAB AU set viewability benchmarks; India fastest-growing among top ad markets; TubeMogul [...]

Cross-device tracking and attribution has been a problem for marketers ever since smartphone and tablet use became mainstream. The conundrum that markets face is how to allocate budget across desktop, tablet, and mobile channels when they cannot calculate ROI accurately. [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sum up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Asia & social to drive ad spend; China offers untapped programmatic growth; Singapore consumers 'lukewarm' on brand [...]

Compared to other regions, marketers in Asia-Pacific need to deal with more complexity in order to communicate with their audience more effectively. Their campaigns have to include multiple markets, languages, and media formats, says Russell Young, Sojern's Asia-Pacific managing director, [...]

ExchangeWire round up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: SintecMedia Acquires Operative Media; Impending AppNexus IPO?; Nielsen certifies TabMo; GroupM launches [m]Platform; Strategic alliance between Stack I/O and Transparent Media; Brand Networks integrates with TVTY; and Mobsta [...]

2016 has been a fascinating year for the industry, best summed up as the ‘year of transparency’, as the ANA (alongside Facebook’s ‘inflate-gate’) helped to remind brands of the importance of transparency, and driving this throughout the entire media supply [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sum up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: India consumers still stuck on traditional media; IAB AU take on US podcast ad metrics; Tencent 3Q2016 [...]