Advertisers’ calls for cross-device targeting capabilities appear to have been answered with the unveiling of Xaxis Sync, the GroupM trading desk’s multi-screen technology that lets media buyers purchase ads on viewers’ mobile devices coordinated with commercials running on their televisions [...]

With 33% of German consumers choosing not to engage with a website over privacy concerns, Ken Parnham, managing director, EMEA for TRUSTe, explains just how serious an issue privacy is in Europe’s biggest untapped market. With the increase of programmatic [...]

'Fragmentation Feeds The Need For Automation', that was pretty much the message here. The mobilisation of consumers, cross-device targeting, wearable tech, these are all key trends at Ad Week Europe currently being hosted in London. Here the ad tech [...]

Ahead of next week's Ad Trader Conference in Berlin, Jeff Green, The Trade Desk, CEO and co-founder, share his views on how adoption of programmatic trading in Europe could outpace its uptake in the US.

The rapid adoption of mobile devices - both smartphones and tablet devices - offers advertisers the potential to help escort consumers through a purchase journey like never before. However, as readers of this blog will know, that is much easier said [...]

The consumer shift towards accessing the web on multiple devices, plus the (albeit nascent) emergence of connected TVs, has prompted advertisers to transition towards a more holistic model of campaign optimisation, and addressing how they attribute their media spend. The [...]

Kurt Edwards, Talksport, international commercial director, argues that radio's digital renaissance will extend into programmatic, thrusting 'the wireless' into the forefront of the digital revolution. Radio, that great trusted medium, is enjoying a real renaissance amongst western audiences and has never [...]

Sue Hunt, Improve Digital, managing director, UK, explains that while innovative ideas and venture, plus eager VCs can enrich the industry, the downside is that such a pairing can result in a perception of need spreading confusion, and potentially restrict [...]

With Facebook’s purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp for a colossal $19bn announced this week, it’s clear that mobile is crucial to any ad-funded business. However, as the digital economy enters the ‘post-PC era’ in full thrust, ad spend on the [...]

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 [...]