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  • AppNexus CEO: 'Viewability' is a misnomer

    Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus CEO, has established himself as one of the biggest names in the programmatic advertising sector, having first helped establish Right Media Exchange, and continuing his career after its $850m sale to Yahoo, with the founding of his [...]

  • If TV Is Now A ‘Secondary Device’, Why Are Multi-Screen Campaigns Still So Difficult?

    New research from YuMe indicates that the TV is losing its prominence in terms of media consumption, but continues to dominate ad spend, pointing to a failure of the digital media industry to keep apace with its own innovations. Charting [...]

  • The Burden Of Click Fraud Is One To Be Shared

    Click fraud has undoubtedly been one of the topics of conversation in the programmatic advertising sector in 2014, with Google’s purchase of UK-based security specialist Spider.io just one of a number of industry moves underlying its growing importance. Last week Rocket [...]

  • Rocket Fuel Hits Back At ‘Sensational Headlines’ In Bot Traffic Row

    Under-fire Rocket Fuel has moved to underline its credentials in the “arms race” between ad tech players and “scammers” after being cited in a critical FT article claiming a recent it participated in for Mercedez-Benz was plagued with click fraud [...]

  • The Cross-Device Chasm And Why Statistical Identification Matters

    ExchangeWire columnist Gareth Davies, AdBrain, CEO and co-founder, explains: 'WTF are statistical IDs, and why should I care?' In an increasingly mobile-first world, the proliferation of mobile device adoption presents a major challenge to digital marketers who traditionally relied upon [...]

  • When Ad Tech Arrived At Ad Week

    'Fragmentation Feeds The Need For Automation', that was pretty much the message here. The mobilisation of consumers, cross-device targeting, wearable tech, these are all key trends at Ad Week Europe currently being hosted in London. Here the ad tech [...]

  • The Rise Of Multi-Screen, And Why ‘Last-Click’ Has To Go

    The consumer shift towards accessing the web on multiple devices, plus the (albeit nascent) emergence of connected TVs, has prompted advertisers to transition towards a more holistic model of campaign optimisation, and addressing how they attribute their media spend. The [...]

  • Taking Aim At Cyber Scammers To Ensure Traffic Quality

    Cameran Harman, OpenX, managing director, EMEA, explains that while the programmatic industry as a whole is generally in rude health, it is one besieged by nefarious parties, and how combatting fraud is everyone in the industry’s job. An Industry [...]

  • How Will Marketers Buy And Sell Media in 2020?

    What will it take to win in 2020? Looking six years into the future of digital media is no easy task, argues Scott Ferber, Videology, CEO. Three years ago, who could have predicted that 40% of all US brands would use [...]

  • Industry Group formed To Help Deliver The Elusive 'Year Of Mobile'

    Google, Microsoft and UK mobile operator joint venture Weve are among companies attempting to win over more brand spend in the notoriously tricky mobile display ad market with the formation of an industry working group that intends to spread further [...]