eBay Advertising has announced the creation of a 'channel agnostic' agency sales team offering increased scope for automated media buying following lessons learned during its 'Programmatic Only Week'. This comes just a day after AppNexus revealed it bought Yieldex to [...]

Mike Harty, PowerLinks co-founder and ExchangeWire columnist, accepts the need for regulation in the native advertising space, but argues that a line must be drawn somewhere to maintain the unique value of the offering. Last month, the AOP, IAB, ISBA (representing [...]

Viewability. It's one of they key issues facing the online advertising industry, as brands - wary of getting scammed - ask for ever-increasing levels of transparency; with oil giant Shell now asking for FIVE TIMES the industry standard before it [...]

The worlds of ad tech and martech are increasingly colliding, which poses marketers with many questions to ask themselves about how they conduct their business from day-to-day, including where their roles fit within an organisation, and whether or not they [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up the key industry updates on ad tech across Europe, and in this week’s edition: SpotXchange steps-up Euro operations; Advertisers united in calls for transparency; Microsoft finds consumers demand more privacy; Key appointments in [...]

Brands have never been keener to put programmatic on the media plan, but with this increased demand comes scrutiny, propelling phrases such as 'transparency' to the core of the public industry discussion, as advertisers increasingly demand ROI. ExchangeWire speaks with [...]

Digital media, and especially buying it programmatically is still seen as an 'emerging platform' in Latin America, this is despite audiences there spending more time online compared to those elsewhere, according to Victor Lopez, Affiperf, programmatic media director, Miami. In [...]

With a third of marketers planning to increase investment in DMPs in 2015, Zuzanna Gierlinska, director, strategic agencies & accounts, Oracle Marketing Cloud, EMEA, calls on marketers to start investing in the right resources too. DMPs gaining traction A recent Oracle Marketing [...]

Declan Kennedy, StitcherAds, CEO, a Facebook Marketing Partner recounts his experiences as one of the first Facebook Marketing Partners to integrate Facebook Product Ads. The announcement last week from Facebook on its new Product Ads has certainly added fuel to the proverbial [...]

Mobile World Congress has arrived, with the mobile industry's biggest names all headed off to Barcelona. The event is still largely the domain of 'legacy' businesses from the sector. Barring a few exceptions, mobile advertising is a minority [...]