We’ve all heard the projections; global mobile ad spend is set to triple to $37bn by 2017, accounting for half of total US digital ad budgets. The driver; programmatic buying – set to reach more than 50% of US display [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Yahoo Parts Ways with COO De Castro Ahead Of Ad Exchange Roll-Out Earlier this week it emerged that Yahoo has axed its former Chief Operating Officer Henrique [...]

Sources indicate that data will be one of the hot topics of 2014, particularly as the French regulator begins to bear its teeth and advertisers begin to demand enhanced transparency. In short, the terms ‘privacy’ and ‘transparency’ could soon become [...]

Investment in internet advertising continues to buoy the overall UK marketing industry, according to the latest IPA Bellwether report. The report released today (16 January) reveals an overall increase in marketing spend in the fourth quarter of 2013, with over 11% [...]

In the first of a two-part look at the French programmatic market in 2014, insiders have told ExchangeWire the programmatic trading sector provided one of the few ‘good news’ stories in the French advertising market last year, which was described [...]

January is always a time of reflection and prediction, reflecting on how mobile advertising has evolved and then predicting what is in store over the next 12 months. In 2013, the dust settled on some fundamental issues: programmatic (on its way [...]

ExchangeWire sources musings on the potential implications of ad tech sales teams attempting to bypass media agencies, and the potential implications it can have on the dynamics of the market. The past couple of years have seen a common [...]

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 [...]

Programmatic buying continues to dominate video advertising conversations, and the ad tech industry can expect it to move further into the mainstream of media buying strategies in 2014. But the industry must reform some of its ways before this happens, [...]

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 [...]