In this week’s ExchangeWire Weekly European Roundup: Verizon buys AOL for $4.4bn in latest round of operator entry to ad tech; UK retargeting company Tapad clinches $18m funding round; Concerted drive on transparency; Rubicon Project courts SMEs; Tate Modern goes [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up the key industry updates on ad tech from around the region – and in this week's edition: comScore unveils ad metrics in APAC; Maxus launches social media monitoring centers in Asia; Amobee hires [...]

Ben Plomion, Chango*, VP, marketing, assesses the prospect of programmatic video ads unseating linear TV spots as marketers' tool of choice when it comes to engaging relevant audiences en masse. Video is a powerful marketing tool, with its ability to tell [...]

Ahead of his ATS Paris keynote, Emmanuel Crego, ONE by AOL: video, business director, France, gives his take on some of the key market developments in the market, including his opinion on how publishers that are willing to marry technology [...]

The emergence of publisher consortia was underlined in recent weeks as UK publishers began to band together en masse. A month ahead of ATS Paris, ExchangeWire examines the French market, where publishers there were early to adopt this approach, exploring [...]

Viewability. It's one of they key issues facing the online advertising industry, as brands - wary of getting scammed - ask for ever-increasing levels of transparency; with oil giant Shell now asking for FIVE TIMES the industry standard before it [...]

Advertisers are willing to pay enhanced prices for ad inventory bought using programmatic technology, but ad tech partners need to provide 100% transparency, and media owners must produce more engaging ad formats, according to Nestle's UK digital lead. Gawain Owen, Nestle, [...]

The ad tech industry has become increasingly fragmented and has lost its focus of consumers over its failure to execute a cohesive user experience. It also needs to improve communication to achieve better transparency and build trust. These were among the [...]

Over three-quarters of advertisers plan to increase their spend in digital, with an increase in programmatic spend a particular priority, but concerns over transparency is holding back further investment, according to separate research studies. Infectious Media published research today (26 [...]

Stephan Beringer, Vivaki, CEO has confirmed the company is sending 120 of its US traders to individual agencies within the wider Publicis Groupe fold, in a move signalling the evolution of the entities formerly know as 'agency trading desks'. In an [...]