In this week’s ExchangeWire Weekly European Roundup: Adblock Plus secures second German court victory in quick succession; Separate studies show mobile ads surge, but desktop still vindicated; Twitter promises advertisers enhanced data insights to bolster further spend; Teads adds Le [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up the key industry updates on ad tech from around the region – and in this week's edition: APAC preferences in brand engagement differ; Singapore IAB ropes in brand marketers as advisors; Korea's YDM [...]

Opinions in the industry may differ on whether first-party data is more reliable than third-party data. For Eyeota CEO Kevin Tan, both offers its own value, and efforts should instead be channelled towards improving data quality and transparency. In this [...]

Verizon Wireless' purchase, or merger, with AOL stands out as one of the ad tech stories of 2015. This is not only for its multi-billion price-tag, but also how it symbolises the attempted re-emergence of telco operators in the digital [...]

The industry is largely agreed upon the weaknesses of last-click attribution, yet it remains in common use. Below, Rafael Garcia-Navarro, Experian Marketing Services, head of analytics, discusses overcoming the challenges of finding out what marketing activities do and don't work. While [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up the key industry updates in ad tech from around the region – and in this week's edition: More APAC brands turning to audience data; Roy Morgan, AdNear offers mobile consumer analytics in ANZ; [...]

Third-party data can be months outdated and irrelevant to the actual target audience, but brands in the Asia-Pacific still turn to these datasets religiously, when they should be working with first-party data instead. In this week's Q&A, ExchangeWire chats with [...]

OpenX has overtaken Google as the most trusted inventory source, according to figures released this week, as the latter of the pairing aims to underline its leadership in the industry’s fight against dishonest players. The claims were made in the latest [...]

Dave Hendricks, LiveIntent president, reflects on the AOL/Verizon merger and predicts the rise of such deals will herald the end of probabilistic targeting. If you are old enough, or an aficionado of board games, you might have heard of Battleship. This staple of [...]

The Echo Chamber is a regular column, penned by Ciaran O’Kane, on all things ad tech, martech, and programmatic. Advertising technology is dead, don't you know? A recent post in Techcrunch told us excitedly that ad tech has had its day, [...]