Brands and agencies in Southeast Asia are limiting their exposure to ad networks due to the lack of transparency and opting to build their own trading or buying platforms. Regional publishers also are increasingly wary of working with technology giants [...]

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: Ad blocking to cost £14bn in 2015; Average Brit spends nearly [...]

Ad servers for publishers are a basic ingredient in digital advertising, but with significant advances in the online marketing ecosystem – including the rise of programmatic – some are questioning whether they are still relevant to today’s digital marketers. In [...]

Private marketplaces are fuelling programmatic media buying and this preference for dedicated, defined inventory trading is increasingly apparent in the Asia-Pacific region. According to SpotXchange, more than 40% of impressions sold through its programmatic platform were traded through private marketplaces; [...]

Using trading models originally designed to secure pricing guarantees for 18th-century agricultural traders, media futures trading is at the very vanguard of the ad tech revolution. ExchangeWire learns more about how futures trading is being lifted from more traditional commodities, [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: MCN & AOL unveil programmatic TV marketplace; YuMe opens China offices with local partnerships; Southeast Asian group [...]

Ben Plomion, Chango*, VP, marketing, assesses the prospect of programmatic video ads unseating linear TV spots as marketers' tool of choice when it comes to engaging relevant audiences en masse. Video is a powerful marketing tool, with its ability to tell [...]

ATS Paris is only two weeks away, where luminaries from the French market will meet to discuss some of the key challenges facing them in the year ahead. ExchangeWire peruses the agenda and highlights some of the key topics of [...]

The emergence of publisher consortia was underlined in recent weeks as UK publishers began to band together en masse. A month ahead of ATS Paris, ExchangeWire examines the French market, where publishers there were early to adopt this approach, exploring [...]

Programmatic is transitioning from the latest buzzword to becoming a dominant force in mainstream media buying, but to successfully move forward the industry must first look back at lessons learned, argues Tim Webster, The Exchange Lab, co-founder and CSO. Programmatic adoption [...]