ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space.  1. Facebook acquires LiveRail  The big news this week was Facebook’s purchase of video SSP LiveRail for an undisclosed sum with the pairing of the two indicating the [...]

Researchers have tipped the UK mobile advertising expenditure to pass the £2bn mark this year as companies including Twitter, and mobile operator joint venture Weve aim to challenge the hegemony of Facebook and Google in the sector. UK mobile ad spend [...]

Stu Spiteri, Krux, managing director, Asia Pacific, talks about his participation at next week’s ATS Singapore event, and explains his opinions on why companies adopting a copy-and-paste approach from strategies implemented elsewhere won’t succeed in APAC. In this piece, he also [...]

Erich Wasserman, MediaMath, chief revenue officer, discusses how marketers can navigate APAC consumers' (increasingly mobile) paths to purchase. Ahead of next month's ATS Singapore The traditional, linear path to purchase is being supplanted by the meandering paths of the modern consumer and [...]

Singapore-based travel Wego has today (25 June) announced the launch of a private marketplace that lets global digital agencies and brand trading desks to bid on premium media placements based on insights gleaned from its Audience Engagement Platform. The launch of [...]

Weve is preparing to exit the beta phase of its mobile display advertising project with question marks over who its next CEO will be, but does claim to have cracked a key component in the mobile advertising conundrum by introducing [...]

Ahead of next month’s ATS Singapore event on 7 July, Phu Truong, TubeMogul Managing Director, South East Asia, and IAB Singapore Leadership Council Member, explains his opinions that traditional media buying agencies can leverage third-party ad tech providers to work [...]

Last week an ISBA survey laid out just some of the concerns brands have about programmatic advertising, with a survey showing that only one-third of advertisers have a positive perception of real-time media trading, indicating the extent of concerns about [...]

The announcement of Global’s Digital Audio Exchange (dax) offering inventory from over 30 traditional UK radio stations and streaming services, is just the latest in a series of industry manoeuvres indicating that all media will eventually be bought programmatically. Global’s [...]

Microsoft is seeking to lay down a marker in its ongoing battle with Google, having secured a sponsorship deal giving it the moniker of ‘official technology innovation partner’ of the Cannes Lions advertising festival taking place this week, with programmatic [...]