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, [...]

The WFA released an excellent programmatic guide this week. The report, written by Mikko Kotila (a notable programmatic trader and ATS speaker), focuses on best practices for brands working with agencies, trading desks and ad tech vendors in the programmatic [...]

Ahead of next week’s ATS London keynote speaker and marketing technologist Scott Brinker shares his opinions on how marketing cloud technology is set to further disrupt ad tech.   Marketing is moving from being in the business of communications to being [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Amazon's videogame move; Facebook tweeks ad offering;  IPONWEB buys in Europe; Rubicon Project partners with Future; Alibaba and WPP's telling filings. [...]

 This year’s ATS London will focus on some of the emerging trends in the contemporary ad tech space, as well as gaze into the near and distant future in an attempt to forecast the challenges facing the ‘traditional’ ad tech [...]

Bharad Ramesh, chief analyst at media advisory firm eMVC (and ex-VivaKi and GroupM Asia veteran), asks the question: ‘How many advertisers will choose transparency if it costs them 10% more?’ The intense conversation on price transparency in agency trading desks puts [...]

The ad tech sector is awash with money spurred by both private investment, plus funds generated by a raft of companies listing publicly, according to Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus, CEO. Speaking to ExchangeWire after his company was valued at $1.2bn after raising [...]

In the interests of helping to educate the mainstream marketing community, ExchangeWire has this year struck an agreement with trade body ISBA – the voice of British brand advertisers – to offer its members free entry to ATS London. ATS London – the industry's [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space, including Facebook and Google's attempts to further their lead on mobile, more acquisitions in the ad tech space, plus more expansion of US companies in Europe.  Facebook [...]

The ‘data crunchers’ and ‘creatives’ have historically been on polar opposite ends of the advertising industry spectrum, but as the digital era advances to a chapter marked ‘big data’ this is starting to change, as ad agencies more commonly associated [...]