The French programmatic advertising sector is in buoyant health, spurred by a growing awareness of how data-led strategies can improve the efficiency of media trading, but a skills shortage prevents it from developing further, according to a survey ahead of [...]

The decline of free marketing opportunities on social media and search engines, plus the growing rivalry between Facebook and Google, as well as an increased demand for cross-screen ad campaigns are all spurring the programmatic display ad sector, according to ExchangeWire sources.  The [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space, and in this week's edition: Germany's Fyber sells to RNTS Media; ExchangeWire begins ATS New York countdown; UK digital spend valued at £7bn a year; Ebuzzing [...]

Publicis Groupe has kicked off its Advertising Week, New York, activity announcing a six-year tie-up with AOL that will see the ad tech firm  provide programmatic video and linear TV services to the France-based advertising behemoth, building on its Adobe [...]

Matt Harty, Experian, GM, Audience Solutions, APAC, looks at developments for the region’s third-party data market, and asks how well the programmatic advertising sector in APAC is addressing the audience disjunction problem, particularly in a market that is largely ‘mobile-first’ where [...]

Ahead of moderating a panel on 'Programmatic Video – Entering The Era of Brand Response', Vincent Flood, Video Ad News, editor, sets the scene on major broadcasters' nascent moves into the programmatic video space.  One of the more interesting trends for 2014 so [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. And in this week’s edition: Amazon's videogame move; Facebook tweeks ad offering;  IPONWEB buys in Europe; Rubicon Project partners with Future; Alibaba and WPP's telling filings. [...]

Bharad Ramesh, chief analyst at media advisory firm eMVC (and ex-VivaKi and GroupM Asia veteran), asks the question: ‘How many advertisers will choose transparency if it costs them 10% more?’ The intense conversation on price transparency in agency trading desks puts [...]

Stephen Upstone, LoopMe, CEO, asks if mobile has just leapfrogged magazines, newspapers and radio, in terms of ad spend, could TV be next? And if so, how will it overtake the king of the ad revenue channels? Mobile display advertising is eating [...]

Separate moves to harmonise understanding in the ad tech space are taking place, with the IAB this week launching a pan-European Programmatic Trading White Paper along with a host of ad tech vendors to help agree definitions for the different elements [...]