In this week's ExchangeWire European Weekly Roundup: Google shifts into anti-competitive gear by blocking third party DSP and bidder access to YouTube inventory via the DoubleClick Ad Exchange; Criteo disappoints despite revenue growth; Integral Ad Science gets new capital; ProSiebenSat.1 [...]

If click fraud was the defining ad tech story of 2014, then it would be fair to say that ad blocking would be its successor in 2015; with several high-profile stories in the mainstream press noting its rising disruption in [...]

In this week's ExchangeWire European Weekly Roundup: AOL reportedly in $300m swoop for Millennial Media; Google's programmatic brand spend nears three-quarters of total budget; TubeMogul publishes "cheat sheets"; and Speculation over next Twitter CEO. AOL & Millennial Media $300m Deal Mooted Just [...]

The collision between ad tech and martech has been dubbed as "inevitable" by ExchangeWire contributors for some time; but few have explored what the fallout might be. In this piece, Vincent Potier, Captify, COO, delves deeper. Despite its phenomenal growth, the [...]

Programmatic media-buying technologies are taking over the internet at a rapid pace, so much so that traditional offline media is the new frontier for the tech. Programmatic, digital out-of-home (DOOH) has been pioneered in APAC, and is now being exported [...]

There's been some interesting press releases sent out this week. Two in particular stand out, and both involve Microsoft, with AOL and AppNexus playing their part. In this piece, ExchangeWire will leverage its industry-leading analysis team to ask what this [...]

Six months after its formal launch, ExchangeWire Research has increased its headcount with the appointment of its first full-time research analyst, Anya Fenge-Davies. Fenge-Davies joins head of research and analysis Rebecca Muir and will assist in the rollout of the [...]

The Echo Chamber is a regular column, penned by Ciaran O’Kane, on all things adtech, martech and programmatic. Germany has two conferences focused exclusively on programmatic – one of which is a joint venture between ExchangeWire and Adzine, for full disclosure. Both [...]

IAB figures released today (29 June) demonstrate the slow death of the traditional ad network business model, as automated media-buying technologies, and trading models, become increasingly popular with advertisers, and media-owners alike. Almost half (45%) of all online display ads are [...]

As Cannes Lions kicks off this week, Andrew Buckman, OpenX, managing director, EMEA, assesses the role programmatic advertising technologies have to play at a conference where the emphasis has historically been on creativity, as opposed to tech innovation, including how [...]