"The rulebook of how display media is bought and sold here in Europe is slowly being ripped up. Automated channels are not only empowering publishers to better monetise non-premium invenotry but also helping to augment their reach. It's [...]

» A new survey by The Fournaise Marketing Group found that nearly 65% of the world's top marketers are not satisfied with their agency's performance, and are still not result-driven enough. The poll was carried out among 1000 global [...]

» IAB has announced that seven companies have received the OBA Certificate Of Compliance. The OBA is an initiative designed by IAB UK to promote good practices in online behavioural targeting. It is based on three key criteria: [...]

Some data released today from Improve Digital indicates that a majority of UK premium publishers believe better transparency around behavioural targeting will encourage acceptance by consumers. The poll was carried out at the recent AOP event, 'New Rules of [...]

The EU has no love for the cookie, and wants to implement legislation that will severely restrict its use. Retargeting will become impossible to do under new legislation, and any publisher looking to drop a cookie on its user [...]

» Most content available on European web sites is free to access. All this free information is invariably funded by ad revenue. This ad revenue comes mostly from contextual buys but over the past two-to-three years behavioural advertising [...]

Many in the space were wondering when Google would get around to offering retargeting. The DoubleClick cookie is the most ubiquitous on the web. You can keep Yahoo, Advertising.com and every other third-party pixel, the DoubleClick cookie is [...]

Agencies and advertisers are now looking to do more audience buys. Top level executives at the big European agencies are actively pushing their organisations in that direction. Data is integral to the success of these audience buys, as [...]

Cookies are domain specific: a cookie from the domain guardian.co.uk cannot be read by a server form domain mail.co.uk (ah, politics and cookies). So when you buy cookie data from domain A how do you actually get your server [...]

Direct response is impossible without some kind of targeting. Many of the big DR ad networks would find it very difficult to deliver for clients without some sort of re-targeting - most of the time based on cookie data. [...]