GroupM’s purchase of Germany-based Plista for a reputed €30m indicates an increased appetite for data-driven solutions among the industry’s big players, but also points to mounting pressure facing third-party tech partners as we enter 2014. This week WPP’s investment arm GroupM [...]

AppNexus’ deal with UIM (United Internet Media) will see the pair build a private marketplace letting advertisers bid on inventory on websites such as GMX and WEB.DE, in a move that could see the German programmatic ad market double in [...]

There has been so much written recently about 'programmatic'. Everything is 'programmatic' these days. What does it all mean? Who knows? Data-driven decision making? RTB-enabled buying? Automated selling? Ad-serving? ...anyone? It might seem like spin, and probably is, but the simple [...]

According to an AdEx Benchmark 2012 study, published by IAB Europe, Russia ranks fourth in Europe in terms of its online advertising market (€1.6 billion in 2012). The Russian market has grown at an impressive annual rate of 34%. The [...]

The digital advertising market is rapidly becoming more automated, more data-driven and interconnected — but what are publishers and agencies doing with this today? Are they adapting, and if so, how? What are their attitudes towards this opportunity and what [...]

With all the Wall Street fantasy IPOs happening at the minute, it's often easy to forget the fundamentals of our business. Display budget is very much controlled by the agencies — even more so in Europe and the APAC region. There [...]

With the frequent use of the DSP, SSP, DMP, ATD and many other acronyms (it’s not that we don’t have enough of them) but I would suggest adding another one to this long acronym list: the WTD, or the White [...]

There is much to consider when planning to invest brand or agency dollars in a marketing attribution solution, not least the potential returns that can be expected. It is critical that marketers can demonstrate to decision-makers how the solution will [...]

At the end of July, ExchangeWire posted an article on the Vendor/Agency relationship. Having just crossed the Agency/Vendor divide (MediaCom to Crimtan), the article raised a number of concepts that I found of great interest. It is certainly true that [...]

Mobile continues to be a strong growth area for independent tech and trading companies - all of which will be discussed at this year's ATS event. Problems remain, however, around lack of transparency. With this in mind, Adbrain (staffed with a [...]