China's Alibaba Group is evidently looking to beef up its advertising revenue, which already accounts for the bulk of its revenue, as it kicks off the new year with an acquisition in the ad tech space. The e-commerce giant this week [...]

ExchangeWire is priming itself for a busy 2015, with its ATS event series consisting of six confirmed events taking place across three continents, where it will help chart the progress of the programmatic advertising sector, as ad tech becomes the [...]

Next year will be the year of mobile no more as the multiscreen audience prevails; the 'war on data' will become the 'war on identity'; and we'll see the emergence of the 'vertical walled garden'. Read more predictions for 2015 from Gareth Davies, [...]

For three years now, Adform has collected data on programmatic trading, and at the end of each quarter, examined it to assess the progress being made by the various players. Martin Stockfleth Larsen, AdForm, CMO, explains how in this last quarter [...]

ExchangeWire caught up with Nate Woodman, IPONWEB's recently appointed GM of demand solutions, to discuss how his role was created to help bolster the ad tech firm's profile among clients, in a two-part interview.  In the first instalment he lifted the [...]

Trade magazine Campaign Asia-Pacific this week hosts the inaugural Marketing Innovation Summit, an event aimed specifically at educating brand marketers in the region about programmatic buying. ExchangeWire spoke with Gabriel Jor, the conference curator, to get insights into the impetus [...]

Much has been written about the 'brand trading desk' or specifically the in-housing of the programmatic buying function. A lot of it has surfaced in the trade press - but there has been very few clients prepared to speak publicly [...]

Careless retargeting executed by ad tech firms more interested in swelling their bottom lines, as opposed to performing a consumer service, are damaging their advertisers in the eyes of consumers that are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with just how much brands [...]

The ad tech sector is arguably the hottest part of the marketing industry right now with the word 'programmatic' on almost every C-level marketer's lips when talking about high-level strategy. Undoubtedly this is good news for the programmatic advertising industry, [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Facebook's Atlas; Quantcast buys Struq, and Affiperf's 'meta DSP'.   Closed ecosystem players stack up  AOL, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and a whole host [...]