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  • The Guardian Preps Mobile App Relaunch, Brings Programmatic To Its Core

    The Guardian is preparing to relaunch its mobile app offering to help advertisers access its most engaged readers, as it also continues to place programmatic media trading at the core of its commercial operations. The disclosure was made this week by [...]

  • The Russian Ad Tech Sector And How It Differs From The West

    Nick Davidov, The Pult Group, managing director, discusses the future of ad tech in Russia and what the West can learn from its development, as well as the unique market dynamics there which make it such a difficult market to [...]

  • Criteo Strategy Further Heralds The Rise Of The Data Driven Bidder

    Criteo intends to increase investment in its its bidding technology as it aims to reduce its reliance on display advertising, as well as improving its cross-platform ad serving portfolio, according to company CEO Jean Baptiste Rudelle who earlier today announced [...]

  • Xaxis Eyes Cross-Screen Ad Dollars With Xaxis Sync

    Advertisers’ calls for cross-device targeting capabilities appear to have been answered with the unveiling of Xaxis Sync, the GroupM trading desk’s multi-screen technology that lets media buyers purchase ads on viewers’ mobile devices coordinated with commercials running on their televisions [...]

  • The Cross-Device Chasm And Why Statistical Identification Matters

    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 [...]

  • Programmatic or Premium? If You Think You Have To Choose, You’re Doing It Wrong

    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 [...]

  • Crossing The Great Data Divide

    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 Rise Of Multi-Screen, And Why ‘Last-Click’ Has To Go

    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 Debate: Public Vs. Private Exchanges

    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 [...]

  • Why Machines Can’t Totally Replace Humanity

    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 [...]