Earlier this week AppNexus and Xaxis announced a two-part deal that will see the ad tech firm acquire Open AdStream for an as yet publicly undisclosed fee, while Xaxis’ parent company WPP will invest $25m in AppNexus. Here Brian O'Kelley, AppNexus, CEO, [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Amazon's videogame move; Facebook tweeks ad offering;  IPONWEB buys in Europe; Rubicon Project partners with Future; Alibaba and WPP's telling filings. [...]

Gareth Davies, AdBrain, CEO, gives ExchangeWire his take on this week’s multimillion dollar purchase of Flurry, and how it’s the latest move in a Silicon Valley arms race, but also explains to his thoughts this can prove risky for brands’ [...]

With the emergence of mobile devices such as smartphone and tablets disrupting the traditional viewing experience in a way that was rarely foreseen by advertisers and technologists alike, Volker Ballueder, Civolution, sales director, explains how ad tech vendors are attempting [...]

Ciaran O'Kane, ExchangeWire, global editor, muses over the potential impact of WPP's GroupM arm apparently halting the purchase of ad inventory from open exchanges. In this piece, he also speculates on whether or not Xaxis pivots to become the holding group's [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space.  1. Facebook acquires LiveRail  The big news this week was Facebook’s purchase of video SSP LiveRail for an undisclosed sum with the pairing of the two indicating the [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. Programmatic pegged at 28% of UK display ad market Nearly one-in-three pounds spent on display advertising were bought using programmatic technologies in the UK last year according to [...]

Xaxis has announced the formal opening of its Russian office, and the appointment of Nikolay Bulanov as Xaxis, managing director, Russia, as it aims to tap into the nascent, but rapidly expanding real-time bidding (RTB) market, valued at $37.7m last [...]

As we build up to ATS Singapore on July 07, we are asking some of our speakers to cast their over the local APAC market and how programmatic is changing the buying and selling of digital media. Today Jeff [...]

In the second part of a two-part interview with ExchangeWire, Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus co-founder and CEO, explains some of his thoughts on how the ad tech sector can move unilaterally to address some of the more complex issues with programmatic [...]