Ad Tech providers and publishers including AOL, Google, Conde Nast and Forbes, have jointly told advertisers: “It’s time to improve your mobile advertising,” calling on them to back the HTML5 web standard. The call was made today (10 February) via an [...]

Robert Webster, Crimtan chief product officer, dissects one of the buzz phrases of the moment, and discusses how big data can be used in a transformative way. For the last few years people have been talking a lot about big [...]

With Mobile World Congress on the horizon, anticipation and debate over of just exactly what role mobile devices can play/deliver in the advertising industry is rampant. But as documented by ExchangeWire, it is far from fait accompli. Martin Kogan, [...]

Mobile proves to be the next big frontier for the online advertising business as a whole and the programmatic sector will be no exception, but the opportunity comes with its challenges. ExchangeWire spoke to some of the industry’s leading mobile [...]

Google’s recent financial results were nothing short of exceptional, despite reporting decreases in its average cost-per-click- (CPC) it was still able to post double-digit increases in revenues. It takes a special kind of company to do so. There has been a [...]

WPP trading desk Xaxis has built on its ambitious European expansion strategy, announcing the acquisition of Bannerconnect for an undisclosed fee, just days after it formally unveiled its Brand Suite to the UK advertising market. Xaxis announced the acquisition (the total [...]

Informal talks to establish a consortium of ad tech companies that would help establish an ‘industry standard’ way of measuring legitimate web traffic are understood to be taking place, as ‘click fraud’ continues to dog some of the industry’s biggest [...]

Weve, the joint venture (JV) company between the three-largest UK mobile operators, has lifted the lid on a mobile display ad pilot with Tesco as the participating brand, as the industry’s move towards mobile devices gathers pace. Weve – a joint venture [...]

In an unexpected move, Millennial Media co-founder and CEO Paul Palmieri has stepped down from the chief exec role to join New Enterprise Associates(NEA), with ex-Yahoo revenue chief Michael Barrett taking over the top job at the mobile advertising network. Paul [...]

Google, Microsoft and UK mobile operator joint venture Weve are among companies attempting to win over more brand spend in the notoriously tricky mobile display ad market with the formation of an industry working group that intends to spread further [...]