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  • '2013 & 2014 Was a Period of Transition, 2015 Will Be a Different Story'

    Established in France during the mid-90s, HiMedia Group can lay claim to being one of the leading lights in the European ad tech scene, and more recently has begun to foray into alternative services such as online payments (HiPay) in [...]

  • Why Mobile Video Advertising is VAST-ly Below its Potential

    Stephen Upstone, LoopMe Media, CEO, discusses potential methods to stimulate the mobile video advertising sector, and calls for a more widespread adoption of technology standards.  Mobile Video Programmatic Advertising The IAB's latest ad spend estimates £64m will be spent on mobile video [...]

  • 2014, the Year of Consolidation in Ad Tech, and What it Means for the Industry...

    A number of deals involving some of the industry's biggest names, including MediaMath, Rubicon Project and, closer to home, Ve, have taken place in the last week, each of them signifying wider shifts in the ad tech and marketing sectors. ExchangeWire [...]

  • IPONWEB: 'We Don't Consider Ourselves To Be A Commodity Product'

    Nathan Woodman, was named as IPONWEB's first-ever GM of demand solutions earlier this month and will oversee the Russia-based company's positioning and expansion in the USA from its current embryonic North American base, stationed in New York City. This comes [...]

  • AppNexus To Guarantee 'Fraud-Free' Traffic 

    AppNexus today (5 November) announced a tie-up with a host of third parties, including WPP's Xaxis, DoubleVerify, Integral AdScience, to agree a common currency on what constitutes click-fraud, and also announced an initiative where it won't charge advertisers for invalid traffic.  The [...]

  • Does Publicis' Epic Acquisition Spree Add Value?

    Publicis Groupe has crowned its 2014 shopping spree with the announcement of its $3.7bn offer for digital advertising specialist Sapient, adding to its recent acquisition of mobile data management platform (DMP) RUN, plus last month's £40m stake in Matomy. But [...]

  • ExchangeWire European Weekly Round-Up

    ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space, and in this week’s edition: Facebook's ad tech future; Countdown to ATS Paris kicks off with first European Programmatic survey; more consolidation; and more funding in [...]

  • AppNexus CTO On The Fight Against Ad Fraud

    AppNexus will take to the stage at next month's ATS Paris to discuss issues around transparency, here Geir Magnusson, CTO, SVP of engineering at AppNexus, shares insights on the wildly varying accounts of the extent of the problem, plus potential [...]

  • Facebook Talks Up Future Ad Tech Investment

    Facebook spoke about the importance of ad tech in its recent earnings call with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook, COO, telling investors it is vitally important to the company's 'mobile first' future, although the subsequent investment increase caused its share price to [...]

  • Publicis In Latest Round Of Consolidation With Purchase Of Mobile DMP RUN

    Publicis Groupe is continuing its transition to become a digital-first, cross screen outfit with the purchase of mobile-focused data management platform (DMP) RUN for a publicly undisclosed fee.  The deal announced today (28 October) comes as the France-based media giant (which [...]