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 [...]

Earlier this week AppNexus and Xaxis announced a two-part deal that will see the ad tech firm acquire Open AdStream for an as yet publicly undisclosed fee, while Xaxis’ parent company WPP will invest $25m in AppNexus. Here Brian O'Kelley, AppNexus, CEO, [...]

Speaking at ATS Tokyo this morning (16 September), Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus, CEO, told attendees the ad tech sector was ripe for both commoditisation and consolidation, as companies like Google attempted to “own” the sector. Elsewhere, attendees where advised on the [...]

Ahead of moderating a panel on 'Programmatic Video – Entering The Era of Brand Response', Vincent Flood, Video Ad News, editor, sets the scene on major broadcasters' nascent moves into the programmatic video space.  One of the more interesting trends for 2014 so [...]

Ajay Daved, PowerLinks Media, head of demand and revenue, explains how two of the hottest trends in digital advertising (native and programmatic) are helping to achieve standards in order to realise one of the biggest opportunities for advertisers in the current [...]

The WFA released an excellent programmatic guide this week. The report, written by Mikko Kotila (a notable programmatic trader and ATS speaker), focuses on best practices for brands working with agencies, trading desks and ad tech vendors in the programmatic [...]