Retail media continues to be the hottest category in ad tech right now. A new RMN (retail media network) is coming to market almost daily, driven by endemic advertising demand.  PayPal, for instance, announced its plans recently to launch an [...]

Curation; everyone in ad tech is talking about it, but what does it actually mean for the industry? In this Sketch, Ciaran O’Kane looks at the mechanics of curation. Curation can be split into two parts - demand generation and activation, [...]

In ExchangeWire's latest MadTech Sketch, following the news that Revolut is planning to monetise its transactional data through advertising, Ciarán O’Kane sheds light on their likely ad model, and how it's less ad net, more mini walled garden. Another new ad [...]

In his latest MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane turns his attention to curation - an ad tech model that is gaining momentum and turning heads across the industry. Curation is one of ad tech's hottest topics. It has been around for some [...]

In this week’s MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane looks at how two heavyweights in the world of verification have been shifting focus towards activation and attention. DoubleVerify (DV) recently agreed to buy Scibids for $125m. Why did an ad verification company want [...]

In ExchangeWire’s latest MadTech Sketch, Ciarán O’Kane looks at why commerce media is having a moment, and what a successful commerce media business looks like. Uber announced this week that it is now “profitable”. Yes, after 13 years of huge investment [...]

In this week's MadTech Sketch, Ciarán O'Kane takes a look at curation and the opportunities it offers in the current ad tech landscape. Curation is not a new concept in ad tech. Ever since Dr Boris Mouzykantskii developed it for WPP [...]

The cookie deprecation date has been confirmed – so what's next? In the latest MadTech Sketch, Ciarán O'Kane breaks down the addressable web. Google announced last week that it will not be moving the date for third-party cookie (3PC) deprecation in [...]

In his latest MadTech Sketch, Ciaran turns his attention to the supply-path optimisation (SPO) landscape. The SPO battle is hotting up. Ever since OpenPath was launched by The Trade Desk, both Magnite and Pubmatic have launched competing solutions (Clearline and Activate [...]

Ciaran O'Kane is back at his sketchpad, and this week he's focussing on how the retail media market could develop into a two-tier system. Retail media is going to be huge. All online grocery platforms are building a strategy around how [...]