The FT published an article documenting the levels of online ad fraud present on a recent Mercedes-Benz campaign earlier this week bringing the debate to a more mainstream audience. Jalal Nasir, Pixalate, co-founder, CEO, lifts the lid on some of the techniques [...]

Under-fire Rocket Fuel has moved to underline its credentials in the “arms race” between ad tech players and “scammers” after being cited in a critical FT article claiming a recent it participated in for Mercedez-Benz was plagued with click fraud [...]

AppNexus is to double its operations in Singapore, including the transfer of senior employees from its European and US operations, reflecting similar moves by programmatic players in APAC – a market estimated to be worth in excess of $1,892m by [...]

The Guardian is preparing to relaunch its mobile app offering to help advertisers access its most engaged readers, as it also continues to place programmatic media trading at the core of its commercial operations. The disclosure was made this week by [...]

Digital ad spend in Europe increased by 11.9% last year to surpass the €27bn mark, with the UK extending its lead as the most developed market in the region, although growth in Western Europe’s second-largest market (Germany), was relatively [...]

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 [...]

Chris Bourke, Qriously, commercial director, EMEA, explains how employing mobile and programmatic can help marketeers solve problems foisted upon them by social media. How does an industry that warns brand marketers “correlation is not causality” expect to woo their budget? This [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. Mobile continues to dog Google Google this week issued its first quarter results for the year, with revenues of $15.4bn, up 19% year on year, however then search [...]

UK trade bodies representing advertisers, publishers and the ad tech sector have laid down guidelines on viewable ad impressions in a move designed to introduce viewability as a media trading standard for the first time. The IAB has this morning [...]

The issue of click fraud is endemic in the online advertising business, with estimates over the scale of the problem varying wildly, with some parties claiming that up to 50% of all billed-for ads are generated by non-human traffic. Last week, [...]