Amid increasing calls for transparency and changes in business models, there remains stoic confidence that media agencies still have a role to play and the need for brands to find alternatives when faced with restricted access to data. Discussions at ExchangeWire's [...]

Last month (23 May, 2016) Criteo announced the launch of its new header bidding platform for publishers, Criteo Direct Bidder. Marc Grabowski, executive vice president, global supply and business development, Criteo speaks exclusively with ExchangeWire about how the new platform [...]

Instead of simply buying media for marketers, agencies must offer guidance on whether their clients are ready to adopt programmatic and, if not, provide help on how to do so. This should include data strategy and operations setup, says Vincent Niou, [...]

The proliferation of header bidding sparked a need among publishers to adopt new technology to ease the technical load of managing these partners, or risk losing control of their revenue optimisation. At least, writes Jason Fairchild, CRO and co-founder, OpenX, [...]

Today (17 May), PubMatic have released their latest Quarterly Mobile Index (QMI) report, providing insight into the mobile advertising industry for both publishers and advertisers in Q1 2017. The report identified six key trends from activity in the last quarter, [...]

Header bidding adoption has ramped up quickly over the last few years, but has yet to spread significantly to formats other than web display. AppNexus is one of the companies pushing to change that, having recently released a guide for [...]

Header bidding offers publishers in Asia-Pacific the ability to regain control over ad-decisioning and enables them to provide access to scaled programmatic inventory. There are, however, challenges unique to certain markets in the region that publishers need to look out [...]

In the age of ad fraud and fake news, trust and transparency in the marketplace are more important than ever. Nigel Gilbert, VP Strategic Development EMEA, AppNexus (pictured below) argues for moving header bidding server-side, as it helps building trustful [...]

In the latest column from the IAB’s Display Trading Council, Michelle Raubenheimer (pictured below), director, business development, PulsePoint, along with co-authors James Prudhomme, managing director EMEA, Index Exchange, and Emma Newman, country manager, UK, PubMatic, clarifies the difference between client-side and server-side auctions [...]

The top priority for publishers today is maximising revenue from their ad inventory. Techniques such as header bidding are making this possible; and while the concept itself isn’t brand new, adoption is on the rise as more publishers begin to [...]