Speaking at a press lunch in Singapore this week, Mark Strecker, Amobee, CEO, and Steve Hoffman, CFO, (and Amobee’s M&A guy) shared insights with ExchangeWire's Wendy Hogan about the value of the Adconion/Kontera acquisitions as well as Amobee and Singtel’s ambitions for ad tech.  The Amobee cross-channel, cross-device [...]

Speaking at ATS Tokyo this morning (16 September), Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus, CEO, told attendees the ad tech sector was ripe for both commoditisation and consolidation, as companies like Google attempted to “own” the sector. Elsewhere, attendees where advised on the [...]

Ahead of the inaugural ATS Tokyo event today (16 September) ExchangeWire runs through some of the opportunities for the programmatic advertising industry to crack Japan, which is still to this day one of the world’s largest, yet nuanced, advertising markets. With [...]

Danny Hopwood, Vivkai, head of platform, EMEA, gives his assessment of the current programmatic landscape in light of recent industry consolidation. At the risk of overusing the latest buzzword, we are in a period of serious consolidation.  It was inevitable due [...]

Earlier this week at ExchangeWire's ATS London, enterprise players were invited on stage to explain just how they could affect the ad tech space, and today (10 September) Adode went some way to answering the question with news of its [...]

The notoriously unpredictable British summer time may be drawing to a close, and even throwing up the occasional 'Indian summer's day' as September takes hold. But ad tech firms are increasingly offering brands the means to advertise their wares based [...]

In the same week as ATS London saw presenters and panelists debate the merits of open and closed ad ecosystems, Noel Penzer, AOL, managing director, UK, argues the case for a 'alignment' in a world wherer consumers' media consumption habits [...]

This morning saw the opening of ATS London 2014 where increased transparency was universally identified as a key requirement if programmatic advertising is to become the dominant means for brands to underpin their marketing strategies by panelists and presenters. Brian O'Kelley, [...]

Ahead of moderating a panel on 'Programmatic Video – Entering The Era of Brand Response', Vincent Flood, Video Ad News, editor, sets the scene on major broadcasters' nascent moves into the programmatic video space.  One of the more interesting trends for 2014 so [...]

Ajay Daved, PowerLinks Media, head of demand and revenue, explains how two of the hottest trends in digital advertising (native and programmatic) are helping to achieve standards in order to realise one of the biggest opportunities for advertisers in the current [...]