ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Yahoo Parts Ways with COO De Castro Ahead Of Ad Exchange Roll-Out Earlier this week it emerged that Yahoo has axed its former Chief Operating Officer Henrique [...]

Sources indicate that data will be one of the hot topics of 2014, particularly as the French regulator begins to bear its teeth and advertisers begin to demand enhanced transparency. In short, the terms ‘privacy’ and ‘transparency’ could soon become [...]

In the first of a two-part look at the French programmatic market in 2014, insiders have told ExchangeWire the programmatic trading sector provided one of the few ‘good news’ stories in the French advertising market last year, which was described [...]

The title of this post is clearly a cop out, as it is intended to hedge my chances of complete and abject failure come the retrospective at the end of 2014. But I feel the predictions for this year [...]

Earlier this week UK trade bodies representing brands, advertisers and the ad tech communities agreed a set of guidelines aimed at providing greater transparency in the online ad trading sector, bringing a near three-year deadlock to an end. The newly formed [...]

AppNexus’ deal with UIM (United Internet Media) will see the pair build a private marketplace letting advertisers bid on inventory on websites such as GMX and WEB.DE, in a move that could see the German programmatic ad market double in [...]

At our recent ATS event in Paris, we gathered a number of senior European ad tech execs to discuss how customisation will define the programmatic space going forward. Some of the areas covered in the discussion are outlined below. - [...]

There has been so much written recently about 'programmatic'. Everything is 'programmatic' these days. What does it all mean? Who knows? Data-driven decision making? RTB-enabled buying? Automated selling? Ad-serving? ...anyone? It might seem like spin, and probably is, but the simple [...]

With the merger of Xaxis and 24/7 Media, Caspar Schlickum, MD EMEA, Xaxis discusses the implications of the merger on the two WPP entities and the market in general. Why merge Xaxis and 24/7 Media now? What value does it add [...]

While everyone in the advertising industry is talking about technologies, such as data management platforms, and have an opinion regarding the value of data, lots of people forget to mention that there is a key challenge related to DMPs: the [...]