The exchange revolution continues apace in France. Matiro put on the first exchange-focused event in France last week. Attended by publishers, agencies and marketers the event sought to talk up the strengths of the data-driven display channel. [...]

I have had the opinion for a long time that the established barriers between buy-side and sell-side players in the display eco-system have completely broken down. Increasingly, you are seeing agencies, ad networks and publishers all encroach on each [...]

Ben Barokas, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer, Admeld, gave an in-depth presentation on the evolution of the European sell-side at the recent ExchangeWire Ad Trading Summit. The keynote provides an excellent overview of growth in the ad network market since [...]

» Google is now earning $2.5 billion from non-text display on the YouTube and DoubleClick platforms, as it uncharacteristically broke out details of its Q3 earnings. The numbers are a bit fuzzy on detail. There's no indication what [...]

» It was announced last night that Dapper has been acquired by Yahoo for an undisclosed sum - but it's likely to have been in the $40-$50 million dollar range. Dapper's dynamic creative solution has been getting a lot [...]

They came from Germany, Holland, France, Italy, Sweeden, Canada, Australia, the US and of course London town. All 190 packed into the Paramount club on the thirty-first floor of the centre point building - there to discuss the exchange [...]

» The opening of a dedicated data centre by Appnexus is kind of old news, as the data centre in Holland has been active for the past two months. But you have to still applaud Appnexus for having the [...]

» Mike Nolet, who appeared at the recent Ad Trading Summit, blogs very sparingly these days. But when he does put up a post, it is essential reading for everyone in our space. The topic of his recent [...]

Looking at these figures released by Comscore during the week about the UK display market confirms to me that nobody in our industry knows how big the ad net market actually is. Apart for the finger-in-the-wind estimation carried out by [...]

RTB is quickly becoming part of the display buying landscape in the US, and still dominates a lot of coverage in the mainstream trade press there. We might be lagging six-to-twelve months behind the US, but there are signs [...]