In this edition of ExchangeWire's European Weekly Roundup: Google announces cross-device updates to DoubleClick; Email, and martech win favour with investors; EU agrees data privacy timeline; Twitter fuels ongoing reform with autoplay ads. Google rolls out mobile support for DoubleClick Google's DoubleClick [...]

Campaigns comprising display and mobile ads should be developed together so retargeting can be carried out seamlessly; but differences in consumer experience must be addressed. Yann Aïtbachir, PocketMath's director of product development, said the mobile RTB ecosystem needed to consider [...]

China's Great Firewall presents special challenges that impact the way RTB operates in the country, so market players will need to set up a separate infrastructure to resolve these issues, advises Tim Koschella, CEO and co-founder of AppLift. In this Q&A [...]

Opinions in the industry may differ on whether first-party data is more reliable than third-party data. For Eyeota CEO Kevin Tan, both offers its own value, and efforts should instead be channelled towards improving data quality and transparency. In this [...]

Verizon Wireless' purchase, or merger, with AOL stands out as one of the ad tech stories of 2015. This is not only for its multi-billion price-tag, but also how it symbolises the attempted re-emergence of telco operators in the digital [...]

The industry is largely agreed upon the weaknesses of last-click attribution, yet it remains in common use. Below, Rafael Garcia-Navarro, Experian Marketing Services, head of analytics, discusses overcoming the challenges of finding out what marketing activities do and don't work. While [...]

Twitter's recent agreement to purchase mobile retargetting company TellApart was just the latest round in the ongoing industry consolidation. In this piece Phil Macauley, Quantcast, managing director, EU, reflects on how many of these purchases point towards marketers' growing focus [...]

WPP consultancy, Gain Theory, launched this month to help marketing and insight professionals with the challenges they are increasingly facing with data and technology. Gain Theory Partner and ExchangeWire contributor, Celina Burnett, explains more about the launch and what this [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest developments in the ad tech space in the last week, and in this week’s edition: WPP drills down on attribution, EU presses Google further, Ad misplacement rears its ugly head in tabloid investigation, [...]

'Last-click' remains the prevalent method for advertisers to reward third parties on their media plan, despite mounting voices to the contrary. ExchangeWire explores how tracking campaign performance remains largely unsatisfactory to many in the era of cross-screen campaigns. The latest IAB [...]