Investment in internet advertising continues to buoy the overall UK marketing industry, according to the latest IPA Bellwether report. The report released today (16 January) reveals an overall increase in marketing spend in the fourth quarter of 2013, with over 11% [...]

ExchangeWire sources musings on the potential implications of ad tech sales teams attempting to bypass media agencies, and the potential implications it can have on the dynamics of the market. The past couple of years have seen a common [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Publicis/Omnicom Merger Receives Green Light In Europe, So What Will This Mean For Accuen And Vivaki? The merger is quite rightly billed as one of the [...]

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 [...]