ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Publicis/Omnicom Merger Receives Green Light In Europe, So What Will This Mean For Accuen And Vivaki? The merger is quite rightly billed as one of the [...]

GroupM’s purchase of Germany-based Plista for a reputed €30m indicates an increased appetite for data-driven solutions among the industry’s big players, but also points to mounting pressure facing third-party tech partners as we enter 2014. This week WPP’s investment arm GroupM [...]

The title of this post is clearly a cop out, as it is intended to hedge my chances of complete and abject failure come the retrospective at the end of 2014. But I feel the predictions for this year [...]

AppNexus’ deal with UIM (United Internet Media) will see the pair build a private marketplace letting advertisers bid on inventory on websites such as GMX and WEB.DE, in a move that could see the German programmatic ad market double in [...]

Martyn Bentley, sales director at programmatic advertising platform, Chango, talks about the opportunities open to brands through Twitter’s new ‘tailored audiences’ service. Last week, the digital advertising world took another great step into the programmatic era with Twitter's announcement of its [...]

You could argue that European VCs and early-stage investors are clueless about ad tech - and tech in general. You could say that, and you'd be right. A lot of companies continue to struggle to get risk-averse European investors to [...]

Jason Bigler is Director, Product Management at Google. In an interview with ExchangeWire, Bigler gives the full run down on the capabilities of the new DoubleClick Digital Marketing (DDM) suite, and what it will mean for agencies and advertisers. He [...]

Stuart Spiteri is Chief Operating Officer at News Digital Media - and worked previously at Google as the head of platforms for Japan and Asia-Pacific. Here he discusses his new role at one of Australia's biggest publishers, the challenges/ opportunities [...]

MediaMath Makes In-Roads Down Under MediaMath, a leading DSP, announced last week that it has expanded into Australia via a partnership with Australian technology company, Kinected Corp. As part of the move, Kinected has struck a licensing agreement with MediaMath to oversee [...]

Vicki Lyon is Managing Director SpotXchange Asia-Pacific. Here she gives her synopsis on the recent ATS Sydney event. The inaugural ATS conference here in Sydney was a resounding success, with several hundred attendees and a great cross-section of industry commentary. [...]