Despite Deal ID's elevation to buzzword status in recent months, it's pretty clear there is some confusion over what it actually is, why it should be used, and why exactly should we care? Angelique Reijm, Improve Digital, director of yield [...]

Established in France during the mid-90s, HiMedia Group can lay claim to being one of the leading lights in the European ad tech scene, and more recently has begun to foray into alternative services such as online payments (HiPay) in [...]

Consumers are watching more video content than ever before, but the problem for advertisers eager to get in front of these eyeballs is that this is happening across more screens that ever before, making such eyeballs evasive. In this piece, [...]

A number of deals involving some of the industry's biggest names, including MediaMath, Rubicon Project and, closer to home, Ve, have taken place in the last week, each of them signifying wider shifts in the ad tech and marketing sectors. ExchangeWire [...]

ExchangeWire caught up with Nate Woodman, IPONWEB's recently appointed GM of demand solutions, to discuss how his role was created to help bolster the ad tech firm's profile among clients, in a two-part interview.  In the first instalment he lifted the [...]

Vincent Potier, Captify, COO, reflects on  how ad tech has helped propel display advertising to become an arguable rival to search advertising, and asks whether programmatic advertising will be dominated by agency trading desks, the internet's big Silicon Valley players, or [...]

Ahead of his ATS New York speaking engagement, John Snyder, Grapeshot, CEO, and veteran of the digital marketing space, reflects on how companies in the programmatic space can learn from Google's emphasis on simplicity in the workflow process.   Back in [...]

AppNexus will take to the stage at next month's ATS Paris to discuss issues around transparency, here Geir Magnusson, CTO, SVP of engineering at AppNexus, shares insights on the wildly varying accounts of the extent of the problem, plus potential [...]

Publicis Groupe is continuing its transition to become a digital-first, cross screen outfit with the purchase of mobile-focused data management platform (DMP) RUN for a publicly undisclosed fee.  The deal announced today (28 October) comes as the France-based media giant (which [...]

The French programmatic advertising sector is in buoyant health, spurred by a growing awareness of how data-led strategies can improve the efficiency of media trading, but a skills shortage prevents it from developing further, according to a survey ahead of [...]