M&A deals in the ad tech sector in 2014 were worth double that of the previous year, according to a report from investment advisory firm AGC Partners, with demand for video and data management platforms (DMP) driving growth in the [...]

Established in France during the mid-90s, HiMedia Group can lay claim to being one of the leading lights in the European ad tech scene, and more recently has begun to foray into alternative services such as online payments (HiPay) in [...]

Wendy Hogan, ExchangeWire APAC contributing editor, and IAB Singapore, chairperson emeritus, outlines efforts in the region to help advance the digital advertising sector there, under the banner of the trade body.    I’ve been involved in various industry bodies for many [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up the week's biggest stories in ad tech, and in this week's edition: Apple crosses the Rubicon into programmatic; British consolidation move reflects the blurring world of ad- and martech; Millennial Media hires Gubbins; PubMatic eyes Italian opportunity.  Apple [...]

A number of deals involving some of the industry's biggest names, including MediaMath, Rubicon Project and, closer to home, Ve, have taken place in the last week, each of them signifying wider shifts in the ad tech and marketing sectors. ExchangeWire [...]

ExchangeWire caught up with Nate Woodman, IPONWEB's recently appointed GM of demand solutions, to discuss how his role was created to help bolster the ad tech firm's profile among clients, in a two-part interview.  In the first instalment he lifted the [...]

Nathan Woodman, was named as IPONWEB's first-ever GM of demand solutions earlier this month and will oversee the Russia-based company's positioning and expansion in the USA from its current embryonic North American base, stationed in New York City. This comes [...]

Vincent Potier, Captify, COO, reflects on  how ad tech has helped propel display advertising to become an arguable rival to search advertising, and asks whether programmatic advertising will be dominated by agency trading desks, the internet's big Silicon Valley players, or [...]

Publicis Groupe is continuing its transition to become a digital-first, cross screen outfit with the purchase of mobile-focused data management platform (DMP) RUN for a publicly undisclosed fee.  The deal announced today (28 October) comes as the France-based media giant (which [...]

The French programmatic advertising sector is in buoyant health, spurred by a growing awareness of how data-led strategies can improve the efficiency of media trading, but a skills shortage prevents it from developing further, according to a survey ahead of [...]