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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

AppNexus’ deal with UIM (United Internet Media) will see the pair build a private marketplace letting advertisers bid on inventory on websites such as GMX and WEB.DE, in a move that could see the German programmatic ad market double in [...]

At our recent ATS event in Paris, we gathered a number of senior European ad tech execs to discuss how customisation will define the programmatic space going forward. Some of the areas covered in the discussion are outlined below. - [...]

Ezra Pierce is co-founder at PubSquared. Advertising is about one thing: persuasion. You put an ad in front of a person, they see it, a desire is created and an action engendered. What’s odd is that this isn’t what our corner [...]

Sylvain Deffay is Country Manager, France at Infectious Media As 2013 kicked off with the e-marketing conference in Paris, it seems that the importance of measuring online advertising viewability has impacted the French programmatic market. I was presenting along with several [...]

QUISMA gives its view on the Middle East and North African Region after opening its Dubai office at the end of 2012, its first step out of the European region. Not too long ago, the digital media landscape in the Middle [...]

Stuart Colman is Managing Director, EMEA at Maxifier. I am a big believer in trying to be the best I can be. I work hard, push myself, try new things and deliver something that is as good as I can make [...]

The market in Spain for programmatic media trading is bucking the trend despite the Spanish recession, as publishers there look beyond their own borders for extra revenue, and technology adoption within video is fuelling this trend.