The sale of Berlin-based Fyber to RNTS Media last year for $190m was touted as one of the biggest exits for a European ad tech company, demonstrating that Silicon Valley is not the sole domain for tech innovation. ExchangeWire caught [...]

Despite being the largest advertising market in Europe by total ad spend, Germany’s media business is still widely regarded as cautious when it comes to embracing the programmatic media-buying revolution. However, the ADTRADER Berlin Conference hosted today (2 June) will see [...]

ExchangeWire Research’s weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world, with additional insight provided by Rebecca Muir, ExchangeWire, head of research and analysis. In this week’s edition: the Neuroscience behind interactive ad formats; the state of European retargeting; [...]

The industry is largely agreed upon the weaknesses of last-click attribution, yet it remains in common use. Below, Rafael Garcia-Navarro, Experian Marketing Services, head of analytics, discusses overcoming the challenges of finding out what marketing activities do and don't work. While [...]

In this week’s ExchangeWire Weekly European Roundup: Rhind heads to ad tech; another European bargain bucket ad tech sale; mobile carriers look to "poison the well" with Shine hook-up; BidSwitch enables programmatic buying across native; and why ad tech is [...]

ExchangeWire Research’s weekly roundup brings you up-to-date research findings from around the world, with additional insight provided by Rebecca Muir, ExchangeWire, head of research and analysis. In this week’s edition: Pixalate sets new standard for programmatic advertising quality; the ever-increasing mobile [...]

OpenX has overtaken Google as the most trusted inventory source, according to figures released this week, as the latter of the pairing aims to underline its leadership in the industry’s fight against dishonest players. The claims were made in the latest [...]

Dave Hendricks, LiveIntent president, reflects on the AOL/Verizon merger and predicts the rise of such deals will herald the end of probabilistic targeting. If you are old enough, or an aficionado of board games, you might have heard of Battleship. This staple of [...]

The Echo Chamber is a regular column, penned by Ciaran O’Kane, on all things ad tech, martech, and programmatic. Advertising technology is dead, don't you know? A recent post in Techcrunch told us excitedly that ad tech has had its day, [...]

In this week’s ExchangeWire Weekly European Roundup: Verizon buys AOL for $4.4bn in latest round of operator entry to ad tech; UK retargeting company Tapad clinches $18m funding round; Concerted drive on transparency; Rubicon Project courts SMEs; Tate Modern goes [...]