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  • Commerce Media: The Anatomy Of a Utility Publisher

    Following on from last week’s MadTechSketch, Ciaran O’Kane dives a little bit deeper on the “utility publishers” category that is becoming a mainstay of commerce media. Typically a utility publisher is a service not reliant on advertising as the primary revenue [...]

  • Google: Click Volume Rises, CPC Falls

    Yesterday (27 July) Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) announced financial results for the quarter ended 30 June, 2016. The internet giant posted revenues of USD$21.5bn (£16.3bn), an increase of 21% year-on-year. Google still drives almost all Alphabet's revenue as click volume rises, despite [...]

  • That Emoji Ad Network: The Global Scale of Emotional Targeting

    On Monday (19 February), Ciaran O’Kane, CEO, ExchangeWire published a piece as a precursor to the biggest mobile event of the year, Mobile World Congress. As well as touching upon the device graph and the rise of programmatic native, O’Kane [...]

  • 10% of Brazilians Have Ad Blockers; WhatsApp Banned in Brazil for 12 Hours

    Weekly Latin American RoundUp brings the following stories: IVC audits Ad Blocker's situation in the country and finds out that, for some publishers, 30% of their audience do not view ad campaigns; Brazilian Court bans WhatsApp for not complying with local investigation [...]

  • Data Protection Law Advances in Brazil; Dentsu Acquires Pontomobi

    This week’s LATAM RoundUp brings these stories: a Brazilian data protection law is approved in the first stage of voting and can change the way online companies operate in the country; e.Bricks, mobile advertising company that is part of RBS [...]

  • Are Retailers Addicted to AdSense Revenue?

    Many of the UK’s leading retailers are knowingly cannibalising their revenue potential because they are addicted to the ‘safe’ revenue from AdSense. Online retailers make money by selling products to online consumers. However, many retailers have, perhaps unwittingly, diversified from their [...]