The rapid adoption of mobile devices - both smartphones and tablet devices - offers advertisers the potential to help escort consumers through a purchase journey like never before. However, as readers of this blog will know, that is much easier said [...]

Buoyed by its most positive financial figures in the last 10 years, AOL has made clearing up the “chaos” ad tech its mission with the unveiling of AOL Platforms – essentially a rebrand of AOL Networks – plus the launch [...]

Ahead of next month’s Ad Trader Conference hosted in Berlin, Dimo Velev, OpenX, regional director, DACH, asks how can German publishers thrive in the era of big data given the more stringent privacy laws there, compared to the rest of [...]

The consumer shift towards accessing the web on multiple devices, plus the (albeit nascent) emergence of connected TVs, has prompted advertisers to transition towards a more holistic model of campaign optimisation, and addressing how they attribute their media spend. The [...]

The German programmatic market tipped for a period of sharp growth in 2014, as publishers there gradually open up to alternative models of monetising their digital inventory. With German publishers notoriously slow to embrace automated trading, Sebastian Romanus, managing director [...]

Matt Adams, DigitasLBi, deputy head of media, UK, employs a recent example of airline ads appearing next to stories about the missing Malaysian aircraft to explain that while technology and data may drive efficiency and sophisticated targeting, human sensitivity remains [...]

Cameran Harman, OpenX, managing director, EMEA, explains that while the programmatic industry as a whole is generally in rude health, it is one besieged by nefarious parties, and how combatting fraud is everyone in the industry’s job. An Industry [...]

Shoring up ad viewability standards will be one of the key battlegrounds for the programmatic sector as the advertising industry enters the second quarter, with the Media Ratings Council (MRC) issuing its backing to several ad tech vendors in recent [...]

Jeremy Tester, Sky Media, director of insight, reveals plans for the further roll out of the broadcaster’s data-driven, insight and audience buying tools Sky IQ and AdSmart, as it aims to counter web-based interlopers that increasingly rival them for prominence [...]

Kurt Edwards, Talksport, international commercial director, argues that radio's digital renaissance will extend into programmatic, thrusting 'the wireless' into the forefront of the digital revolution. Radio, that great trusted medium, is enjoying a real renaissance amongst western audiences and has never [...]