Sylvain Deffay, Infectious Media's country manager, France, advises on how to best scrutinise the performance of ad budgets in a world of near constant technological change. The latest figures from French regulator the SRI reveal programmatic buying is maintaining an upward [...]

With Facebook’s purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp for a colossal $19bn announced this week, it’s clear that mobile is crucial to any ad-funded business. However, as the digital economy enters the ‘post-PC era’ in full thrust, ad spend on the [...]

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 [...]

Ciaran O’Kane, ExchangeWire global editor, reflects on how a ‘good’, or brand safe, internet can help advertisers and publishers reap the rewards of programmatic-buying, and tackles rampant inertia over click fraud, plus the lurking threats to the agency model status [...]

Google’s recent financial results were nothing short of exceptional, despite reporting decreases in its average cost-per-click- (CPC) it was still able to post double-digit increases in revenues. It takes a special kind of company to do so. There has been a [...]

Informal talks to establish a consortium of ad tech companies that would help establish an ‘industry standard’ way of measuring legitimate web traffic are understood to be taking place, as ‘click fraud’ continues to dog some of the industry’s biggest [...]

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. [...]

Sources indicate that data will be one of the hot topics of 2014, particularly as the French regulator begins to bear its teeth and advertisers begin to demand enhanced transparency. In short, the terms ‘privacy’ and ‘transparency’ could soon become [...]

MoneySuperMarket aims to increase the efficiency of its online media spend by cutting a deal with ad viewability firm Meetrics, as it continues to diversify its multi-million pound digital marketing strategy. The price comparison site today (13 January, 2014) announced it [...]

Earlier this week UK trade bodies representing brands, advertisers and the ad tech communities agreed a set of guidelines aimed at providing greater transparency in the online ad trading sector, bringing a near three-year deadlock to an end. The newly formed [...]