In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Microsoft have agreed to buy Activision Blizzard in an all-cash deal worth $68.7bn (£50.57bn); a new bill has been introduced to limit advertising platforms from using personal information to target ads; Animoca Brands have raised [...]

In this contributed article written for ExchangeWire in association with Fifty, Robert Webster, founder of Canton Marketing Solutions, outlines the current state of play in contextual and how next-generation solutions are set to revolutionise media planning and buying in years [...]

In this exclusive Q&A ahead of ATS London 2021, Pierce Cook-Anderson, country manager Northern Europe, Smart, outlines the rising importance of first-party data and its implications for a post-cookie world.   What role does first-party data play in the development of cookieless [...]

Ahead of ATS London 2021, Pierre Naggar, SVP global demand at AdsWizz, outlines how audio has changed and what this has meant for advertisers in this Q&A.   What trends have we seen in digital audio and streaming consumption over the past [...]

Ahead of ATS London 2021, Paul Hood, director of business planning for The Sun at News UK, outlines three key aspects of the The Sun's growth strategy: incentivised registration, collaboration with platforms, and continual experimentation with engagement and data collection [...]

In this exclusive article, Albert Nieto, co-CEO of Seedtag, explains why advertisers should invest in contextual targeting as the end of third-party cookies edges closer. Google recently announced that it is delaying its plans to phase out third-party cookies in the [...]

Following an article from Eyeota’s Rob Armstrong, written shortly after Google announced a delay to the termination of cookies on Chrome, Kristina Prokop, CEO and co-founder, Eyeota, explains why brands should implement cohort-based onboarding as part of a data-agnostic strategy [...]

In this Q&A, Seedtag co-founders Albert Nieto and Jorge Poyatos discuss their company's progress over the past year, and give an overview of what the future may hold for contextual targeting in the wake of Google's cookie deprecation extension.   Following a [...]

In this article, Rob Armstrong, VP of product at Eyeota, outlines the benefits of cohort-based targeting, and explains the role this method will play for marketers in the post-cookie era. The ongoing shift to a privacy-first digital world means that marketers [...]

Following last week's announcement from Google that it will delay the final phasing out of the third-party cookie on its Chrome browser to late 2023, ExchangeWire speaks to professionals across the ad tech ecosystem for their initial reaction on the [...]