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  • Going Native Tomorrow At Advertising Week Europe - Come On Down

    It is the last day of Advertising Week Europe tomorrow - and I will be chairing a panel around native advertising. Having endured the likes of James Corden and Idris Elba as poor warm-up acts, you will finally get to see [...]

  • Rubicon Project IPOs Today (NYSE: RUBI) As Another Ad Tech Player Goes Public

    The Rubicon Project announced today it will IPO on the NYSE under the ticker RUBI. It will initially offer 6.8 million shares at a price of $15 to the public. The IPO comes after speculation that the Californian-based ad tech [...]

  • The Really Not So Different Worlds Of Programmatic Display And Search Advertising

    Rebecca Muir, Quantcast, product marketing lead, shares some of her insights on how the worlds of programmatic display and search are starting to merge. Not so very long ago, display marketers and search marketers were typically very different people and [...]

  • The Practical Strategy of Cross-Screen Advertising

    The rapid adoption of mobile devices - both smartphones and tablet devices - offers advertisers the potential to help escort consumers through a purchase journey like never before. However, as readers of this blog will know, that is much easier said [...]

  • ExchangeWire European Weekly Round-Up

    ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Will The Toppling Of King.com’s Share Prices Rebound On Mobile Ad Prices? King.com started trading on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this week with an initial [...]

  • AOL Aims To Clear Up The ‘Chaos’ Of Ad Tech With One Platform

    Buoyed by its most positive financial figures in the last 10 years, AOL has made clearing up the “chaos” ad tech its mission with the unveiling of AOL Platforms – essentially a rebrand of AOL Networks – plus the launch [...]

  • The Rise Of Multi-Screen, And Why ‘Last-Click’ Has To Go

    The consumer shift towards accessing the web on multiple devices, plus the (albeit nascent) emergence of connected TVs, has prompted advertisers to transition towards a more holistic model of campaign optimisation, and addressing how they attribute their media spend. The [...]

  • As The Media Plan Is Whittled Down, Budget Will Flow To The Data-Driven Bidders

    There has been an unusual amount of jobs advertised of late for client-direct positions across the European market. It would seem the much anticipated budget squeeze is starting to happen at the trading desk level, and third party optimisers [...]

  • ExchangeWire Weekly European Round-Up

    ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. This week the potential implications for Yahoo in the Alibaba IPO, Facebook's potential 'friend conflicts' and declining popularity, plus consolidation in the ad tech sector with IgnitionOne [...]

  • Why Machines Can’t Totally Replace Humanity

    Matt Adams, DigitasLBi, deputy head of media, UK, employs a recent example of airline ads appearing next to stories about the missing Malaysian aircraft to explain that while technology and data may drive efficiency and sophisticated targeting, human sensitivity remains [...]