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 [...]

Video ad formats are widely celebrated as one of the drivers of programmatic media-buying, but just like display advertising, it too is also susceptible to the ills of fraudulent traffic. Irfon Watkins, Coull, CEO, discusses some of the issues below. Data [...]

Rubicon Project is furthering its automated guaranteed push, post the purchase of iSocket and Shiny Ads, with the dual announcement of its Guaranteed Orders UK launch, plus the appointment ex-Guardian and CBS Interactive executive Steve Wing to head it up. Rubicon [...]

The sale of Berlin-based Fyber to RNTS Media last year for $190m was touted as one of the biggest exits for a European ad tech company, demonstrating that Silicon Valley is not the sole domain for tech innovation. ExchangeWire caught [...]

Video is tipped to buoy the value of the overall programmatic media-buying market in France in the years to come, as media owners embrace the technology, with ad tech vendors also hoping their wares will tap into lucrative TV budgets. [...]

ATS Paris is only two weeks away, where luminaries from the French market will meet to discuss some of the key challenges facing them in the year ahead. ExchangeWire peruses the agenda and highlights some of the key topics of [...]

The emergence of publisher consortia was underlined in recent weeks as UK publishers began to band together en masse. A month ahead of ATS Paris, ExchangeWire examines the French market, where publishers there were early to adopt this approach, exploring [...]

Tim Faircliff, AOP, chairman, discusses the mechanics of the recently announced premium publisher alliance - or co-op - that is to be powered by AppNexus, which has several of the UK's tier-one publishers as founding members. EW: What does the new [...]

The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has lifted the lid on its publisher cooperative powered by AppNexus, with several tier-one publishers including Telegraph Media Group, Time Inc, and Bauer Media among the names to sign up to the venture at [...]

AppNexus has confirmed its purchase of publisher forecasting and programmatic-direct company Yieldex, in a deal rumored to be valued at $100m, as the ad tech firm continues its acquisition spree, and prepares for the rise of programmatic-direct. The integration of Yieldex [...]