Microsoft is seeking to lay down a marker in its ongoing battle with Google, having secured a sponsorship deal giving it the moniker of ‘official technology innovation partner’ of the Cannes Lions advertising festival taking place this week, with programmatic [...]

Speaking with ExchangeWire at Cannes Lions, Dave Reed, MediaMath, managing director, EMEA, discusses the role of ad tech at the advertising industry's flagship event for creatives, as well as improving the reputation of ad tech among marketers.

The title of this piece may illicit some barbed retorts, such as; ‘A week-long jolly on Cote d’Azur drinking Rosé and charging it back to expenses’, etc, etc. But the fact is, the scale of the presence of ad tech [...]

Martin Stockfleth Larsen, Adform, CMO, looks at the numbers from the latest Adform RTB Trend Report Europe, Q1, 2014, and argues that publishers need to embrace programmatic more than ever before. In this piece, he demonstrates how publishers can earn [...]

Greg Williams, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of OPEN partnerships at MediaMath, acknowledges that the ad tech industry's lack of transparency, and jargon, has made it difficult for marketers to commit to investing their budgets into one platform or another. In this piece [...]

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 [...]

Brian O’Kelley, AppNexus CEO, has established himself as one of the biggest names in the programmatic advertising sector, having first helped establish Right Media Exchange, and continuing his career after its $850m sale to Yahoo, with the founding of his [...]

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 [...]

Click fraud has undoubtedly been one of the topics of conversation in the programmatic advertising sector in 2014, with Google’s purchase of UK-based security specialist Spider.io just one of a number of industry moves underlying its growing importance. Last week Rocket [...]