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 [...]

What will it take to win in 2020? Looking six years into the future of digital media is no easy task, argues Scott Ferber, Videology, CEO. Three years ago, who could have predicted that 40% of all US brands would use [...]

Google’s recent financial results were nothing short of exceptional, despite reporting decreases in its average cost-per-click- (CPC) it was still able to post double-digit increases in revenues. It takes a special kind of company to do so. There has been a [...]

WPP trading desk Xaxis has built on its ambitious European expansion strategy, announcing the acquisition of Bannerconnect for an undisclosed fee, just days after it formally unveiled its Brand Suite to the UK advertising market. Xaxis announced the acquisition (the total [...]

Microsoft’s German arm has announced a deal with nugg.ad that will see the IT giant use improved ad targeting technology on its suite of digital services, including Xbox 360, Skype and email service Outlook.com. The deal further suggest a rapid increase [...]

Google, Microsoft and UK mobile operator joint venture Weve are among companies attempting to win over more brand spend in the notoriously tricky mobile display ad market with the formation of an industry working group that intends to spread further [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. Facebook tests mobile ad network 1. It’s been yet another eventful week in the ad tech industry with some of the industry’s largest names continuing to make [...]

Discrepancies around ad viewabilty promises to be one of the key hurdles for the ad tech industry to clear, as trade bodies representing advertisers and premium publishers have identified it as one of the key issues to address in 2014. [...]

January is always a time of reflection and prediction, reflecting on how mobile advertising has evolved and then predicting what is in store over the next 12 months. In 2013, the dust settled on some fundamental issues: programmatic (on its way [...]