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  • The Fall of Walled Gardens: Time for Transparency

    How are walled gardens impacting an advertiser's ability to effectively measure digital advertising activity? They are removing the necessary impartiality required for a fair metric assessment, according to Theo Theodorou, EMEA MD, xAd. Writing exclusively for ExchangeWire, Theodorou explains how transparency [...]

  • Buyers & Sellers Need 100% Transparency on Intermediary Fees

    With another year of dmexco over, James Prudhomme (pictured below), managing director EMEA, Index Exchange, provides ExchangeWire with his view on the common theme present throughout the conference and, indeed, in the industry for a long time – transparency. As the [...]

  • Is Email 2016’s Advertiser Panacea?

    Could email solve all our digital advertising woes? Stuart Austin, head of retargeting, ESBConnect lays down the facts and benefits of email for ExchangeWire, saying email's poor reputation is masking its value in digital marketing strategies. Reading articles, posts, and blogs [...]

  • ISBA Not Collaborative in Call for Transparency with Latest Agency Contract Launch

    On 28 April ISBA (Incorporated Society of British Advertisers) weighed in on the advertiser/agency relationship with the launch of new contract terms for media agency services to promote transparency and update the previous template that was launched almost ten years [...]

  • Better Collaboration Holds the Key to Transparency

    Programmatic has the potential to create the perfect market. If all supply and all demand could be brought together in one place, the true value of inventory could be established, and the optimum price could be achieved for each impression without [...]

  • Helping to Dispel the Misnomer of the Ad Tech Tax

    On 24 March the IAB announced the release of the IAB Programmatic Free Transparency Calculator to allow for charges of programmatic ad technology services during a bid request or response to be broken down, providing greater transparency. Transparency is a sore [...]

  • Header Tag Bidding: Why Transparency Matters More Than Ever

    Transparency within programmatic advertising is generally considered to be very widely talked about, but not very widely achieved. Ahead of the Index Exchange Digital Techfront being hosted at the IAB on 14 March on the topic of transparency, ExchangeWire speaks to [...]

  • ATS London: Seeking the Truth in Data

    Earlier this week, at ATS London, AppNexus created a stir within the digital advertising industry when Catherine Williams, chief data scientist (pictured) shared results of their ongoing Inventory Quality (IQ) initiative. Through a combination of aggressive policy enforcement and sophisticated [...]

  • Programmatic’s Dirty Little Secret

    Programmatic promises the world; effortlessly finding the right audience, marrying the ruthless precision of machine technology and algorithms with the creative flair of advertising, and serving perfectly targeted content to the people that make or break a brand’s success – [...]

  • Stephen Hunt, Director Asia-Pacific, TubeMogul, Asks Whether The Online Video Industry Deserves To Take The Mantle From TV

    Stephen Hunt TubeMogul's Asia-Pacific Director talks candidly about the challenges the online video industry currently faces: demand outstripping supply; publishers holding on to unsold inventory to protect its value; and lack of transparency in video advertising and the industry's absence of [...]