The decline of free marketing opportunities on social media and search engines, plus the growing rivalry between Facebook and Google, as well as an increased demand for cross-screen ad campaigns are all spurring the programmatic display ad sector, according to ExchangeWire sources.  The [...]

Facebook and Google are among the key industry stakeholders to flaunt their wares at arguably advertising's biggest event this this week, and a consistent theme in their messaging appears to be 'programmatic' and 'cross-screen', as the industry prepares to lay [...]

Gareth Davies, Adbrain, CEO, and ExchangeWire columnist, discusses the benefits of establishing an industry standard way of targeting audiences in a mobile-first world, as well as an alternative scenario where the industry is controlled by a few vested interests.  Programmatic players [...]

Chip Meyers, ReactX CEO, asks why brands that are willing to take their media-buying in-house are not doing likewise with their creative?

Gareth Davies, AdBrain, CEO, gives ExchangeWire his take on this week’s multimillion dollar purchase of Flurry, and how it’s the latest move in a Silicon Valley arms race, but also explains to his thoughts this can prove risky for brands’ [...]

Stu Spiteri, Krux, managing director, Asia Pacific, talks about his participation at next week’s ATS Singapore event, and explains his opinions on why companies adopting a copy-and-paste approach from strategies implemented elsewhere won’t succeed in APAC. In this piece, he also [...]

The announcement of Global’s Digital Audio Exchange (dax) offering inventory from over 30 traditional UK radio stations and streaming services, is just the latest in a series of industry manoeuvres indicating that all media will eventually be bought programmatically. Global’s [...]

In the second part of a two-part interview with ExchangeWire, Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus co-founder and CEO, explains some of his thoughts on how the ad tech sector can move unilaterally to address some of the more complex issues with programmatic [...]

One ExchangeWire source revisits the heady predictions of 2011, compared to market reality in 2014, and ultimately concludes that media spend is still allocated, by and large, the same way as it was in three years ago. Back in the dizzy [...]

New research from YuMe indicates that the TV is losing its prominence in terms of media consumption, but continues to dominate ad spend, pointing to a failure of the digital media industry to keep apace with its own innovations. Charting [...]