Jeremy Tester, Sky Media, director of insight, reveals plans for the further roll out of the broadcaster’s data-driven, insight and audience buying tools Sky IQ and AdSmart, as it aims to counter web-based interlopers that increasingly rival them for prominence [...]

Kurt Edwards, Talksport, international commercial director, argues that radio's digital renaissance will extend into programmatic, thrusting 'the wireless' into the forefront of the digital revolution. Radio, that great trusted medium, is enjoying a real renaissance amongst western audiences and has never [...]

German advertisers and publishers may currently lag smaller European economies, such as the UK and Belgium, in the uptake of real-time advertising, but separate studies show engagement rates among online audiencesthere are well above the European average, and the tide [...]

Native ad exchanges are a nascent sector in programmatic, with mobile specialists providing the next phase of growth in the specialism. ExchangeWire examines both the drivers of the trend, plus the (legitimate) reasons holding it back. Yahoo is the latest Silicon [...]

With Facebook’s purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp for a colossal $19bn announced this week, it’s clear that mobile is crucial to any ad-funded business. However, as the digital economy enters the ‘post-PC era’ in full thrust, ad spend on the [...]

Irfon Watkins, CEO of online video firm Coull, discusses how integrating contextual adverts within premium publisher video content can safeguard against 'bot traffic' and 'click fraud' - issues that are rife in the digital advertising industry. YouTube announced recently that it [...]

Ciaran O’Kane, ExchangeWire global editor, reflects on how a ‘good’, or brand safe, internet can help advertisers and publishers reap the rewards of programmatic-buying, and tackles rampant inertia over click fraud, plus the lurking threats to the agency model status [...]

Lauren Wentzel, Admedo, marketing director, argues the correct application of programmatic advertising could be key to the SME sector being at the vanguard of the UK recovery, however it is thus far the domain of the corporate behemoths, this must [...]

With the recent news of Yahoo UK MD James Wildman’s departure followed just ten days later with the news of his successor Stuart Flint’s imminent defection to Microsoft, it’s been a rocky start to the year for Yahoo. A Yahoo [...]

Takako Elliot, Mindshare's client director; and Malcolm Murdoch, Mindshare, director of digital data and performance, discuss big data, its potential, possible deficits introduced by the emergence of mobile, plus how attempts to overcome them can lead to a potential backlash [...]