Bharad Ramesh, chief analyst at media advisory firm eMVC (and ex-VivaKi and GroupM Asia veteran), asks the question: ‘How many advertisers will choose transparency if it costs them 10% more?’ The intense conversation on price transparency in agency trading desks puts [...]

Vincent Potier, Captify, COO, explains how the trend towards programmatic buying is unlikely to replicate the ‘buyer-led’ Transatlantic model established in the UK and North America.   Within the next five years, programmatic buying will conquer the advertising world. The question [...]

The web has presented legacy publishers with a monetisation challenge they have yet to master, and the emergence of media consumption on handheld devices has posed them with an even more difficult quandary as they now compete with Silicon Valley [...]

John Were, CEO and co-founder of Xelsion, discusses the agency trading desks and compensation models, as well as how the entry of enterprise players such as Accenture and IBM is bringing pressure to bear on some of the accepted norms [...]

The City of London Police have moved to further starve online pirates of ad funding by replacing display ads on copyright-infringing sites with official banners from the force, as part of its ongoing battle with more nefarious elements of the [...]

Gareth Davies, AdBrain, CEO, gives ExchangeWire his take on this week’s multimillion dollar purchase of Flurry, and how it’s the latest move in a Silicon Valley arms race, but also explains to his thoughts this can prove risky for brands’ [...]

In a two-part look at how the growing importance of ‘big data’ and the subsequent emergence of programmatic media-buying, ExchangeWire examines the potential threats it poses to traditional media businesses, and just how they must adapt to survive in the [...]

Speaking with ExchangeWire from the recent ATS Singapore event, Matt Harty, Experian, general manager, audience solutions – one of Asia's most well-respected programmatic figures – talks about his new role working with existing data segments to provide greater advertising utility [...]

The issue of ad misplacement and the importance of content verification tools to uphold the standing of the programmatic media trading are hardly new to ExchangeWire readers. But an ominous BBC report linking ad misplacement to funding extremist militant groups [...]

Ciaran O'Kane, ExchangeWire, global editor, muses over the potential impact of WPP's GroupM arm apparently halting the purchase of ad inventory from open exchanges. In this piece, he also speculates on whether or not Xaxis pivots to become the holding group's [...]