Microsoft announced this week programmatic advertising is coming back to Outlook.com. Here Simon discusses how this benefits advertisers, with the ability to leverage standard-size creatives and reach their millions of users across Europe, what's happening with Programmatic Direct and further [...]

Despite a boom in digital advertising, quantifying online display advertising success is still perplexing many marketers. Not only is the worth of display ads seemingly difficult to measure, but many companies still express scepticism over whether they actually work for [...]

With the silly season nearly upon us, advertisers are kicking off major brand campaigns and digital is more important than ever. Brands such as M&S, John Lewis and Argos are placing greater emphasis on digital for engagement and conversation. Delve [...]

While everyone in the advertising industry is talking about technologies, such as data management platforms, and have an opinion regarding the value of data, lots of people forget to mention that there is a key challenge related to DMPs: the [...]

As competition for a finite universe of bookers intensifies, retargeting has emerged as an indispensable tool in a smart advertiser’s online toolkit. By using behaviourally targeted ads to reengage site abandoners, retargeting has seen huge success in the travel and [...]

In a recent post in this publication, fundamental questions were raised on the role and prospect for increased ad viewability in our industry. I’d argue that the nature of our medium makes it likely that viewability will become a key [...]

Turn breaks down by fractions of a second how long each step of serving an ad takes, showing how lightning-fast the process is.

Now a week out from the major IPO that serves as proof positive that the retargeting category is ‘all grown up’,let’s take some inventory on how far we’ve come. I, as most of you reading this, remember the early days. [...]

Digital advertising spend figures for the UK paint an attractive picture of an industry now worth more than £3 billion. As consumer appetite for video content across multiple devices grows, advertisers are showing mounting confidence in online video as an [...]

Maybe it’s not exactly what they had in mind, but we can take some inspiration from Dire Straits when thinking about how to measure and optimise online advertising. Basically, you shouldn’t have to pay for what’s already yours. As more [...]