ExchangeWire rounds up some of the goings on in the world of ad tech during the last seven days, and in this week's edition: Rubicon Project posts impressive gains; Europe's OOH sector primed for programmatic disruption; European ad tech pairing [...]

eBay Advertising has just concluded its 'Programmatic-Only Week' in an attempt to galvanise the wider advertising ecosystem to wake up to the potential of trading media programmatically, with media buyers calling for further such experiments. ExchangeWire explores the week-long experiment, [...]

A number of deals involving some of the industry's biggest names, including MediaMath, Rubicon Project and, closer to home, Ve, have taken place in the last week, each of them signifying wider shifts in the ad tech and marketing sectors. ExchangeWire [...]

ExchangeWire spoke to Mark Frain, national sales director at Multichannel Network Australia (MCN), about last week's announcement to partner with AOL/Adap.tv to pilot the media industry’s first integrated programmatic private marketplace for television.   The offering promises to enable advertisers and [...]

A sharp rise in marketers' willingness to buy mobile ad formats, plus media owners' increased willingness to experiment with a wider range of auction models will spur the US programmatic advertising sector to double in value between this year and [...]

The decline of free marketing opportunities on social media and search engines, plus the growing rivalry between Facebook and Google, as well as an increased demand for cross-screen ad campaigns are all spurring the programmatic display ad sector, according to ExchangeWire sources.  The [...]

Publicis Groupe has kicked off its Advertising Week, New York, activity announcing a six-year tie-up with AOL that will see the ad tech firm  provide programmatic video and linear TV services to the France-based advertising behemoth, building on its Adobe [...]

Matt Harty, Experian, GM, Audience Solutions, APAC, looks at developments for the region’s third-party data market, and asks how well the programmatic advertising sector in APAC is addressing the audience disjunction problem, particularly in a market that is largely ‘mobile-first’ where [...]

Gareth Davies, Adbrain, CEO, and ExchangeWire columnist, discusses the benefits of establishing an industry standard way of targeting audiences in a mobile-first world, as well as an alternative scenario where the industry is controlled by a few vested interests.  Programmatic players [...]

Separate moves to harmonise understanding in the ad tech space are taking place, with the IAB this week launching a pan-European Programmatic Trading White Paper along with a host of ad tech vendors to help agree definitions for the different elements [...]