ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Amazon's videogame move; Facebook tweeks ad offering;  IPONWEB buys in Europe; Rubicon Project partners with Future; Alibaba and WPP's telling filings. [...]

Bharad Ramesh, chief analyst at media advisory firm eMVC (and ex-VivaKi and GroupM Asia veteran), asks the question: ‘How many advertisers will choose transparency if it costs them 10% more?’ The intense conversation on price transparency in agency trading desks puts [...]

Vincent Potier, Captify, COO, explains how the trend towards programmatic buying is unlikely to replicate the ‘buyer-led’ Transatlantic model established in the UK and North America.   Within the next five years, programmatic buying will conquer the advertising world. The question [...]

The web has presented legacy publishers with a monetisation challenge they have yet to master, and the emergence of media consumption on handheld devices has posed them with an even more difficult quandary as they now compete with Silicon Valley [...]

John Were, CEO and co-founder of Xelsion, discusses the agency trading desks and compensation models, as well as how the entry of enterprise players such as Accenture and IBM is bringing pressure to bear on some of the accepted norms [...]

The European ad tech scene has never been in ruder health, with the trade press littered with news of funding rounds for start-ups here, yet the ‘European Google’ remains elusive and ad tech firms born and raised in Europe are [...]

Separate moves to harmonise understanding in the ad tech space are taking place, with the IAB this week launching a pan-European Programmatic Trading White Paper along with a host of ad tech vendors to help agree definitions for the different elements [...]

Paul Lyonette, YuMe, UK country manager, asks why advertising spend is lagging consumer usage when it comes to online video.  

Gareth Davies, AdBrain, CEO, gives ExchangeWire his take on this week’s multimillion dollar purchase of Flurry, and how it’s the latest move in a Silicon Valley arms race, but also explains to his thoughts this can prove risky for brands’ [...]

In a two-part look at how the growing importance of ‘big data’ and the subsequent emergence of programmatic media-buying, ExchangeWire examines the potential threats it poses to traditional media businesses, and just how they must adapt to survive in the [...]