ExchangeWire columnist Gareth Davies, AdBrain, CEO and co-founder, explains: 'WTF are statistical IDs, and why should I care?' In an increasingly mobile-first world, the proliferation of mobile device adoption presents a major challenge to digital marketers who traditionally relied upon [...]

Ahead of this year’s Ad Trader conference hosted in Berlin, Graham Moysey, AOL, head of international, tells publishers there that selling ads programmatically need not involve selling inventory at bargain basement prices. The idea that ad buyers and sellers should have [...]

Ahead of next month’s Ad Trader Conference hosted in Berlin, Dimo Velev, OpenX, regional director, DACH, asks how can German publishers thrive in the era of big data given the more stringent privacy laws there, compared to the rest of [...]

The consumer shift towards accessing the web on multiple devices, plus the (albeit nascent) emergence of connected TVs, has prompted advertisers to transition towards a more holistic model of campaign optimisation, and addressing how they attribute their media spend. The [...]

The German programmatic market tipped for a period of sharp growth in 2014, as publishers there gradually open up to alternative models of monetising their digital inventory. With German publishers notoriously slow to embrace automated trading, Sebastian Romanus, managing director [...]

Matt Adams, DigitasLBi, deputy head of media, UK, employs a recent example of airline ads appearing next to stories about the missing Malaysian aircraft to explain that while technology and data may drive efficiency and sophisticated targeting, human sensitivity remains [...]

Cameran Harman, OpenX, managing director, EMEA, explains that while the programmatic industry as a whole is generally in rude health, it is one besieged by nefarious parties, and how combatting fraud is everyone in the industry’s job. An Industry [...]

Kurt Edwards, Talksport, international commercial director, argues that radio's digital renaissance will extend into programmatic, thrusting 'the wireless' into the forefront of the digital revolution. Radio, that great trusted medium, is enjoying a real renaissance amongst western audiences and has never [...]

Sue Hunt, Improve Digital, managing director, UK, explains that while innovative ideas and venture, plus eager VCs can enrich the industry, the downside is that such a pairing can result in a perception of need spreading confusion, and potentially restrict [...]

Will Margiloff, IgnitionOne CEO, tackles one of the ‘fuzziest’ of the industry buzzwords: ‘Marketing automation’, and challenges readers to reconsider its definition. Our industry is drowning in buzzwords. This should come as no surprise to you if you have read any [...]