The European programmatic market continued to show signs of growth, health and market stabilisation in the third quarter of 2013. RTB ad spend increased by 31%, and CPMs saw a modest 3% gain. While third-quarter growth was less dramatic than [...]

Real Time Bidding (RTB) and programmatic as a means for purchasing digital inventory continued its exceptional growth in the second quarter of 2013, boding well for the industry as a whole. Across Europe, advertisers increased spend by 92%; and publishers [...]

Ezra Pierce is co-founder at PubSquared. Advertising is about one thing: persuasion. You put an ad in front of a person, they see it, a desire is created and an action engendered. What’s odd is that this isn’t what our corner [...]

Paul Frampton is Managing Director at Havas Media We are all well aware that the retargeting model is broken. Still, three years into an RTB world, advertisers are frequency spamming the same users over and over again. Whilst there are some positive [...]

The end of the year is a time for refection and projection, on what we've achieved and for what we expect. Adam Jablonski, CEO of the Polish ad server Epom, breaks down the current state of mobile advertising in Eastern [...]

For the many pundits who anxiously forecasted the ‘Year of Mobile’, 2012 has provided some relief. Figures released by the IAB in October, showing a 132% increase in ad spend on mobile, suggested that advertisers are shifting from experimenting with [...]

ATS Paris is just weeks away, and we again look forward to assembling the ad trading community in Paris for our second big event in Paris. A lot has happened over the past twelve month in the French market. We [...]

Online advertising spend has displayed significant growth over the last 10 years and analysts expect this trend to continue. However, a large discrepancy persists between internet time allocation in total “media time” and online advertising revenue. Online advertising growth has been [...]

SECTION I: PREMIUM & BRANDING IN THE PROGRAMMATIC ERA KEYNOTE 1: Our first keynote speaker of the day was Neal Mohan, VP of Display Advertising Google, who gave us a presentation titled “Programmatic for the People”. - Programmatic buying moving from performance [...]

The news industry is undergoing a transition. Print to Digital. And there are inevitably casualties along the way. Local news is no different. As recently as yesterday Johnston Press reported a 8.2% decline in revenue for H1 2012. But like [...]