Sue Hunt, Improve Digital, managing director, UK, explains that while innovative ideas and venture, plus eager VCs can enrich the industry, the downside is that such a pairing can result in a perception of need spreading confusion, and potentially restrict [...]

When it comes to programmatic the Germans love to talk a good game. At the recent d3con event in Berlin most panels had seven-to-eight people talking up their programmatic buying and selling strategies. That's a lot of noise to have [...]

Native ad exchanges are a nascent sector in programmatic, with mobile specialists providing the next phase of growth in the specialism. ExchangeWire examines both the drivers of the trend, plus the (legitimate) reasons holding it back. Yahoo is the latest Silicon [...]

Cameran Harman, OpenX, managing director, EMEA, speaks with ExchangeWire over publishers' approaches to programmatic trading. Within just three years (2017), over half (59%) of UK online display ads will be traded programmatically, when the sector will be valued at $32.5bn, according [...]

Digital advertising has embedded itself firmly on the agenda at this year’s Mobile World Congress, with brands including BMW Mini, Intel, The North Face and Tesco, all announcing significant programmatic advertising deals at the four-day conference. Advertising has long had a [...]

This year the opening day of Mobile World Congress has seen a series of announcements indicating that programmatic advertising is proving an increasingly popular method for brands to reach consumers in the ‘mobile first’ markets of Asia and Latin America. Millennial [...]

With Facebook’s purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp for a colossal $19bn announced this week, it’s clear that mobile is crucial to any ad-funded business. However, as the digital economy enters the ‘post-PC era’ in full thrust, ad spend on the [...]

Irfon Watkins, CEO of online video firm Coull, discusses how integrating contextual adverts within premium publisher video content can safeguard against 'bot traffic' and 'click fraud' - issues that are rife in the digital advertising industry. YouTube announced recently that it [...]

Ciaran O’Kane, ExchangeWire global editor, reflects on how a ‘good’, or brand safe, internet can help advertisers and publishers reap the rewards of programmatic-buying, and tackles rampant inertia over click fraud, plus the lurking threats to the agency model status [...]

Lauren Wentzel, Admedo, marketing director, argues the correct application of programmatic advertising could be key to the SME sector being at the vanguard of the UK recovery, however it is thus far the domain of the corporate behemoths, this must [...]