UK ad spend increased by 4.2% year on year to hit £6.0bn in the first quarter of 2019, according to the latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report, released today Tuesday 30th July. Growth for the overall year is forecast to reach [...]

Writing on an exclusive basis for ExchangeWire, Deepti Phatak (pictured below), sales project and program lead at Verizon Media, explains how both publishers and advertisers can benefit through the promotion of unambiguous bidding via the transition to first-price auctions. Ever since [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the Asia Pacific region – in this edition: Triton Digital announces acquisition of podcast powerhouse Omny Studio; MediaMath launches industry’s first contextual ad targeting solution [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates on ad tech from around the European region – in this edition: ADmantX launches Homepage Intelligent Solution to help boost ad revenue for publishers; PubMatic releases report on supply path [...]

ADmantX, a leading data provider of natural language processing (NLP) semantic-based solutions, today announces the launch of its Homepage Intelligent Solution for publishers. The new solution will help publishers boost their ad revenue by making their homepage more accessible to [...]

'In-housing' is one of the buzzwords currently sitting near the top of the 2019 ad tech lexicon, in an interminable race with other terms such as 'transparency'. But how should in-housing truly be defined, what role do agencies have to [...]

The programmatic advertising and marketing technology industries are beautifully complex ecosystems which marry technological, financial and regulatory processes. Whilst key developments and trends are often discussed at the international level, it can be easy to overlook details at a more [...]

The skies above programmatic advertisers and publishers have for a while seemed to be naught but rolling dark rain clouds, laden with the rains of industry challenges such as lack of transparency and budget squeezes. Positive results for ad spend [...]

The current digital ecosystem can be a harsh place for publishers with squeezed margins, tectonic shifts in government regulation, and untrustworthy vendors, among other challenges. However, with preparation, appropriate organisation, and optimisation, there are still plenty of opportunities to be [...]

The European Parliament has once again made a seismic ruling affecting the digital landscape across the continent, with MEPs voting 348 against 274 (36 abstentions) to implement a series of hard-hitting internet copyright laws. Two provisions within the directive, articles [...]