A business model with strong traction in the digital advertising space is that of the Next Generation Agency – a digital agency with proprietary technology that crosses the boundaries between the traditional media agency and the technology provider. Infectious Media, one such [...]

For China's ad tech industry, the pressing new year resolution for 2017 appears to be building trust and transparency in a market where lines between the referee and players in the game have blurred. ExchangeWire spoke with three executives who identified [...]

Advertisers in India are unwilling to try new tools and set aside sufficient budget in programmatic, which may prevent them from getting the results the ad platform can provide. They also need to realise that programmatic is more than a trading [...]

There was a lot of M&A this year in advertising technology. According to Eric Franchi's ad tech M&A tracker, there were eighteen acquisitions in excess of USD$100m (£68.4m) in 2016 - with a combined total of nearly USD$10bn (£6.8bn). This [...]

ExchangeWire round up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. In this week’s edition: Methbot controversy; Native advertising grows rapidly; Nielsen acquires Gracenote; TubeMogul becomes Instagram Partner member; and Blis partners with Moat.  Methbot controversy A recent news [...]

A band of publishers in Thailand have banded to form a new co-op with the aim to plug the lack of "trustworthy and scalable" inventory as well as quality data they say advertisers badly need. Slated for launch in February [...]

Over the past few years, we’ve seen programmatic become the fastest growing ad-buying method in the industry. In fact, it’s on course to dominate the space, after IAB UK reported that 60% of digital display ads were traded programmatically in [...]

For some time now, the rapid pace of change in the online publishing industry has led to a widening gulf between programmatic providers and publishers. With programmatic trading being a huge part of how digital publishers and content providers monetise [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sum up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia-Pacific region – and in this edition: Spotify APAC tune up programmatic campaigns; Dentsu buy Indian design studio; MEC unveil Wavemaker in China; WPP [...]

Native ads are known to be more viewable and generate more brand lift, as well as accruing higher purchase rates, than standard formats. And programmatic promises a personalised, relevant ad experience for viewers while giving marketers and publishers the optimum ROI. [...]