Speaking with ExchangeWire at Cannes Lions, Dave Reed, MediaMath, managing director, EMEA, discusses the role of ad tech at the advertising industry's flagship event for creatives, as well as improving the reputation of ad tech among marketers.

The title of this piece may illicit some barbed retorts, such as; ‘A week-long jolly on Cote d’Azur drinking Rosé and charging it back to expenses’, etc, etc. But the fact is, the scale of the presence of ad tech [...]

Martin Stockfleth Larsen, Adform, CMO, looks at the numbers from the latest Adform RTB Trend Report Europe, Q1, 2014, and argues that publishers need to embrace programmatic more than ever before. In this piece, he demonstrates how publishers can earn [...]

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 [...]

Buoyed by its most positive financial figures in the last 10 years, AOL has made clearing up the “chaos” ad tech its mission with the unveiling of AOL Platforms – essentially a rebrand of AOL Networks – plus the launch [...]

Shoring up ad viewability standards will be one of the key battlegrounds for the programmatic sector as the advertising industry enters the second quarter, with the Media Ratings Council (MRC) issuing its backing to several ad tech vendors in recent [...]

German advertisers and publishers may currently lag smaller European economies, such as the UK and Belgium, in the uptake of real-time advertising, but separate studies show engagement rates among online audiencesthere are well above the European average, and the tide [...]

Lauren Wentzel, Admedo, marketing director, argues the correct application of programmatic advertising could be key to the SME sector being at the vanguard of the UK recovery, however it is thus far the domain of the corporate behemoths, this must [...]

With the recent news of Yahoo UK MD James Wildman’s departure followed just ten days later with the news of his successor Stuart Flint’s imminent defection to Microsoft, it’s been a rocky start to the year for Yahoo. A Yahoo [...]

The race to woo further lucrative brand advertising budgets to programmatic channels continues to heat up, with Google striking a deal with ComScore to improve real-time campaign measurement data, as the resurgent AOL commits to opening more premium ad inventory [...]