Henry Howe, Weve, product manager, display, discusses how competing mobile ecosystems,and ad tech firms continually repositioning themselves is causing fragmentation and confusion in the market, plus how those with first-party data can help simplify the audience buying process.  Few other areas of [...]

Gareth Davies, Adbrain, CEO, and ExchangeWire columnist, discusses the benefits of establishing an industry standard way of targeting audiences in a mobile-first world, as well as an alternative scenario where the industry is controlled by a few vested interests.  Programmatic players [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Amazon's videogame move; Facebook tweeks ad offering;  IPONWEB buys in Europe; Rubicon Project partners with Future; Alibaba and WPP's telling filings. [...]

 This year’s ATS London will focus on some of the emerging trends in the contemporary ad tech space, as well as gaze into the near and distant future in an attempt to forecast the challenges facing the ‘traditional’ ad tech [...]

Bharad Ramesh, chief analyst at media advisory firm eMVC (and ex-VivaKi and GroupM Asia veteran), asks the question: ‘How many advertisers will choose transparency if it costs them 10% more?’ The intense conversation on price transparency in agency trading desks puts [...]

Nick Stringer,Internet Advertising Bureau UK, director of regulatory affairs, and European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA), chairman, suggests how businesses can invest in ways to be more transparent with the data they collect and use, as it stares down the [...]

The ‘data crunchers’ and ‘creatives’ have historically been on polar opposite ends of the advertising industry spectrum, but as the digital era advances to a chapter marked ‘big data’ this is starting to change, as ad agencies more commonly associated [...]

The web has presented legacy publishers with a monetisation challenge they have yet to master, and the emergence of media consumption on handheld devices has posed them with an even more difficult quandary as they now compete with Silicon Valley [...]

In the second instalment of a two-part look at how the growing importance of ‘big data’ and the subsequent emergence of programmatic media-buying, ExchangeWire examines the potential threats it poses to traditional media businesses, and just how they must adapt [...]

The IAB Europe recently published a white paper exploring pan-European programmatic trading trends in a bid to harmonise understanding in the ad tech space as well as establishing a pan-European Programmatic Trading Task Force. In this piece Mike Peralta, AudienceScience, CEO, shares his [...]