AppNexus and Xaxis have announced a two-part deal that will see the ad tech firm acquire Open AdStream for an as yet publicly undisclosed fee, while Xaxis' parent company WPP will invest $25m in AppNexus.  The pair today (22 September) announced [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]