Verizon Wireless' purchase, or merger, with AOL stands out as one of the ad tech stories of 2015. This is not only for its multi-billion price-tag, but also how it symbolises the attempted re-emergence of telco operators in the digital [...]

The industry is largely agreed upon the weaknesses of last-click attribution, yet it remains in common use. Below, Rafael Garcia-Navarro, Experian Marketing Services, head of analytics, discusses overcoming the challenges of finding out what marketing activities do and don't work. While [...]

Third-party data can be months outdated and irrelevant to the actual target audience, but brands in the Asia-Pacific still turn to these datasets religiously, when they should be working with first-party data instead. In this week's Q&A, ExchangeWire chats with [...]

Dave Hendricks, LiveIntent president, reflects on the AOL/Verizon merger and predicts the rise of such deals will herald the end of probabilistic targeting. If you are old enough, or an aficionado of board games, you might have heard of Battleship. This staple of [...]

In this week’s ExchangeWire Weekly European Roundup: Verizon buys AOL for $4.4bn in latest round of operator entry to ad tech; UK retargeting company Tapad clinches $18m funding round; Concerted drive on transparency; Rubicon Project courts SMEs; Tate Modern goes [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up the key industry updates on ad tech from around the region – and in this week's edition: TubeMogul-Site Tour deal integrates out-of-home, video ads; Most HK advertisers unhappy with cross-channel campaigns; Shoppers want [...]

The UK is the leading market when it comes to ad viewability, according to numbers released today from advertising software firm TubeMogul, which has also released figures detailing the state of programmatic advertising in emerging markets for the first time. The [...]

The rise of programmatic advertising has changed the whole online display advertising ecosystem and is shaking up the position of power. In this piece, Maciej Zawadziński, Clearcode, CEO, explores the issues media agencies need to explore before deciding where to [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up the key industry updates on ad tech from around the region – and in this week's edition: Criteo APAC clocks 74% revenue growth in 1Q15; Publicis to bring digital consultancy to Singapore; We [...]

Data is fuelling the marketing industry’s shift from labour-intensive manual booking to more dynamic automated processes (in theory at least), but the success of this transition relies on the quality of the data at its disposal. ExchangeWire garners insights from [...]