In the UK, SMBs make up 99.3% of all business, yet account for only 18% of total marketing spend. One of the core challenges faced by small business marketers in the UK and, indeed, globally, is the lack of budget versus [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Criteo crosses USD$1bn (£690m) threshold in revenue; Tom Bowman joins IO; Opera becomes Chinese; Improve Digital invests and expands; LinkedIn retires its ad [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Isobar China partners with UnionPay to develop DMP & DSP; GroupM galvanises AU publishers in bid to [...]

The programmatic sector has seen strong growth in the Nordic markets over the last three years. As the region is set to mature, guaranteed solutions are on the rise, as well as demand for header bidding solutions. An operator in [...]

Evolved out of traditional ad networks, most DSPs in China currently operate on a 'markup model' that is proving harmful to both advertisers and publishers. This typically involves low-tier inventory bought in bulk at low CPMs, and later sold to [...]

China's largest DSP believes its local partnerships and strong knowledge of the local market mean it can deliver a higher level of service compared to Google, which it considers its archrival. iPinYou, which last month announced it had restructured to "return" [...]

When it comes to the latest funding news, the ad tech year in Europe ends on a high. Ad tech provider Adform has just bagged USD$21.5m funding from the Scandinavian Pension Fund, Danica. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Adform co-founder and [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: iClick & Tencent sign native ad deal; Singapore's IAB & MMA get new executive teams; Adyoulike goes [...]

Its sheer market size presents tremendous growth opportunities for the ad tech community, but China is fraught with bureaucracy and complex business operations that require local knowledge to manoeuvre successfully. Several foreign ad tech companies have attempted to launch in [...]

If Facebook is starting a DSP, then programmatic has certainly left the niche. But is the social network’s first-party data enough? Kevin Tan, CEO, Eyeota, looks at the future. Programmatic has emerged from the outer echelons of the ad-tech world and [...]