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  • AOL & Publicis Ink Global Video Deal

    Publicis Groupe has kicked off its Advertising Week, New York, activity announcing a six-year tie-up with AOL that will see the ad tech firm  provide programmatic video and linear TV services to the France-based advertising behemoth, building on its Adobe [...]

  • Is Mobile Re-engagement In Easy Reach For Advertisers?

    Serving mobile users with retargeted ads is widely regarded as an impossibility given cookies’ lack of effectiveness on such devices compared to desktop, and the industry’s lack of consensus on establishing a universal ID. But Luis Barrague, Headway Digital, VP [...]

  • Consolidation Continues With Millennial Media & Nexage Deal 

    Millennial Media has agreed to acquire mobile supply-side platform (SSP) Nexage in a deal worth $107.5m, in the latest round a period of unprecedented M&A activity in the programmatic advertising sector.  The deal announced today (23 September) will see the publicly-listed [...]

  • 'Marketers Buy Clicks But Don’t Understand What They Get'

    Matt Harty, Experian, GM, Audience Solutions, APAC, looks at developments for the region’s third-party data market, and asks how well the programmatic advertising sector in APAC is addressing the audience disjunction problem, particularly in a market that is largely ‘mobile-first’ where [...]

  • AppNexus, WPP Ink Landmark Deal 

    AppNexus and Xaxis have announced a two-part deal that will see the ad tech firm acquire Open AdStream for an as yet publicly undisclosed fee, while Xaxis' parent company WPP will invest $25m in AppNexus.  The pair today (22 September) announced [...]

  • ExchangeWire European Weekly Round-Up

    ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Landmark Conversant purchase tops record period of M&A for ad tech; Mega stacks spur debate; Twitter and Microsoft step up their [...]

  • Amobee Unveils Mega Stack Ambitions With Adconion Direct & Kontera

    Speaking at a press lunch in Singapore this week, Mark Strecker, Amobee, CEO, and Steve Hoffman, CFO, (and Amobee’s M&A guy) shared insights with ExchangeWire's Wendy Hogan about the value of the Adconion/Kontera acquisitions as well as Amobee and Singtel’s ambitions for ad tech.  The Amobee cross-channel, cross-device [...]

  • AppNexus CEO Tells ATS Tokyo: ‘Differentiate Or Die’

    Speaking at ATS Tokyo this morning (16 September), Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus, CEO, told attendees the ad tech sector was ripe for both commoditisation and consolidation, as companies like Google attempted to “own” the sector. Elsewhere, attendees where advised on the [...]

  • The Rise Of The Mega Stacks

    Danny Hopwood, Vivkai, head of platform, EMEA, gives his assessment of the current programmatic landscape in light of recent industry consolidation. At the risk of overusing the latest buzzword, we are in a period of serious consolidation.  It was inevitable due [...]

  • Weather Channel Launches Weather-FX Off-Property

    The notoriously unpredictable British summer time may be drawing to a close, and even throwing up the occasional 'Indian summer's day' as September takes hold. But ad tech firms are increasingly offering brands the means to advertise their wares based [...]