In-housing has long been a hot topic of debate in our industry. And last year’s WFA report threw the topic further into the spotlight, as it was revealed that a fifth of brands had decided to employ an in-house programmatic [...]

As the complexity of media buying has grown proportionally to the explosion of available advertising inventory, there’s been a parallel evolution of advertising technology leading to the evolution of the demand-side platform or DSP, writes Mark Grether (pictured below), CEO, Sizmek, [...]

The discussion around auction dynamics is shifting. Many believe the second-price auction has dominated for too long; and with a greater focus on transparency across the programmatic supply chain, maybe a first-price auction model is the answer. At Advertising Week [...]

Holding groups are under pressure. Their business model has been questioned and undermined by everyone over the past 12 months – from trade-press hacks, to auditors, to client bodies, to grandstanding FMCG CMOs. The relevancy of the agency function has [...]

RhythmOne has reached the final stages of their acquisition of YuMe. In this Q&A, ExchangeWire speaks with Dan Slivjanovski, chief marketing officer, RhythmOne, about the vision for RhythmOne post-acquisition, how the company will leverage its end-to-end offering, and about the [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: PowerLinks Receives Funding; Weve Launches Locate; Bitposter Adds New Buyers to OOH platform; and Survey of Native Ad Formats. Series A funding for [...]

What value could social data add to programmatic buying? Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Jeff Marshall (pictured below), CrossInstall’s co-founder and CEO and a mobile gaming and advertising industry veteran, discusses why DSPs are adding to their programmatic offerings with social [...]

With DSPs increasingly making ads.txt mandatory for their publishers, the pressure is on publishers to adopt the IAB project in order to fight inventory fraud. In this Q&A, Jochen Schlosser (pictured below), CSO, Adform, tells ExchangeWire that the majority of publishers are [...]

In ad tech we use the word ‘optimisation’ a lot. We optimise for performance, for ad spend, and for revenue. But when we optimise, we do so to win. This means that someone else loses. In this piece, Hilit Vainberger [...]

With header bidding the norm at all top publishers, first-price auctions should be a matter of course, argues Kay Schneider (pictured below), general manager, SmartX Platform, smartclip, in this exclusive byline for ExchangeWire, and explains why a change from second-price auctions [...]