German advertisers and publishers may currently lag smaller European economies, such as the UK and Belgium, in the uptake of real-time advertising, but separate studies show engagement rates among online audiencesthere are well above the European average, and the tide [...]

Jana Eisenstein, Videology, senior vice president, global accounts, explains that while content may be king, it is context that is critical, and calls for broadcasters to get programmatic buying on their agendas. ‘Content is King’ is a phrase we’ve all heard [...]

Irfon Watkins, CEO of online video firm Coull, discusses how integrating contextual adverts within premium publisher video content can safeguard against 'bot traffic' and 'click fraud' - issues that are rife in the digital advertising industry. YouTube announced recently that it [...]

With the recent news of Yahoo UK MD James Wildman’s departure followed just ten days later with the news of his successor Stuart Flint’s imminent defection to Microsoft, it’s been a rocky start to the year for Yahoo. A Yahoo [...]

The race to woo further lucrative brand advertising budgets to programmatic channels continues to heat up, with Google striking a deal with ComScore to improve real-time campaign measurement data, as the resurgent AOL commits to opening more premium ad inventory [...]

What will it take to win in 2020? Looking six years into the future of digital media is no easy task, argues Scott Ferber, Videology, CEO. Three years ago, who could have predicted that 40% of all US brands would use [...]

WPP trading desk Xaxis has built on its ambitious European expansion strategy, announcing the acquisition of Bannerconnect for an undisclosed fee, just days after it formally unveiled its Brand Suite to the UK advertising market. Xaxis announced the acquisition (the total [...]

Discrepancies around ad viewabilty promises to be one of the key hurdles for the ad tech industry to clear, as trade bodies representing advertisers and premium publishers have identified it as one of the key issues to address in 2014. [...]

We’ve all heard the projections; global mobile ad spend is set to triple to $37bn by 2017, accounting for half of total US digital ad budgets. The driver; programmatic buying – set to reach more than 50% of US display [...]

ExchangeWire rounds up some of the biggest stories in the European digital advertising space. 1. Yahoo Parts Ways with COO De Castro Ahead Of Ad Exchange Roll-Out Earlier this week it emerged that Yahoo has axed its former Chief Operating Officer Henrique [...]