Microsoft is seeking to lay down a marker in its ongoing battle with Google, having secured a sponsorship deal giving it the moniker of ‘official technology innovation partner’ of the Cannes Lions advertising festival taking place this week, with programmatic [...]

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 [...]

In the second part of a two-part interview with ExchangeWire, Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus co-founder and CEO, explains some of his thoughts on how the ad tech sector can move unilaterally to address some of the more complex issues with programmatic [...]

One ExchangeWire source revisits the heady predictions of 2011, compared to market reality in 2014, and ultimately concludes that media spend is still allocated, by and large, the same way as it was in three years ago. Back in the dizzy [...]

New research from YuMe indicates that the TV is losing its prominence in terms of media consumption, but continues to dominate ad spend, pointing to a failure of the digital media industry to keep apace with its own innovations. Charting [...]

Tom Simpson, Mediaquark, CEO, shares insights on some of the common mistakes made by international companies looking to successfully crack the diverse APAC region. Singapore-based Simpson stresses the need for localisation (plus increased levels of education) in the APAC region [...]

The UK’s largest mobile operator EE is stepping-up efforts to  recruit partners for an ‘big data’ trial via its mData unit, as it aims to monetise its vast swathes of user data. EE, which lays claim to over 27 million subscriptions, [...]

Adobe study points to serious gaps in the digital skillet among brand-side marketers across Europe, with those in the UK looking to hire data analysts to help “reinvent” themselves. Adobe marked its European Summit by publishing “a wake-up call for business [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. Publicis-Omnicom calamity raises more questions than answers The big news in the advertising world this week has been the collapse of the proposed $35bn merger between Publicis and [...]