ExchangeWire spoke to Mark Frain, national sales director at Multichannel Network Australia (MCN), about last week's announcement to partner with AOL/Adap.tv to pilot the media industry’s first integrated programmatic private marketplace for television.   The offering promises to enable advertisers and [...]

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 [...]

AppNexus today (5 November) announced a tie-up with a host of third parties, including WPP's Xaxis, DoubleVerify, Integral AdScience, to agree a common currency on what constitutes click-fraud, and also announced an initiative where it won't charge advertisers for invalid traffic.  The [...]

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 [...]

Careless retargeting executed by ad tech firms more interested in swelling their bottom lines, as opposed to performing a consumer service, are damaging their advertisers in the eyes of consumers that are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with just how much brands [...]

In an era where mobile ad formats are repeatedly credited as the saviour of the advertising industry, Andy Mitchell, Brightroll, managing director, Europe, shares his opinion that its is now driving the programatic sector.  According to the IAB UK’s recently released digital ad spend [...]

A sharp rise in marketers' willingness to buy mobile ad formats, plus media owners' increased willingness to experiment with a wider range of auction models will spur the US programmatic advertising sector to double in value between this year and [...]

The ad tech sector is arguably the hottest part of the marketing industry right now with the word 'programmatic' on almost every C-level marketer's lips when talking about high-level strategy. Undoubtedly this is good news for the programmatic advertising industry, [...]

Singapore-based mobile advertising firm AdNear has raised $19m in series B funding, in a sign of the rapidly developing digital economy there,  as the South East Asian (SEA) digital industry collectively bids to bolster its prominence in the wider advertising [...]

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 [...]