Agency trading desks emerged to cope with the ever-increasing amounts of customer data and ad inventory presented by the advertising network environment. The ad trading ‘arms race’ had begun in earnest, but nobody knew quite how complicated it was going [...]

Rocket Fuel, a next generation ad network, who recently discussed their big data infrastructure at ATS London, today announced it will expand into Japan via an alliance with cyber communications inc. (cci), Japan’s largest digital marketing company and a wholly-owned [...]

Programmatic premium is largely seen as the key driver for continued growth in automated buying. It has been held up by many as a means to deliver improved yield and revenue for publishers drowning in unsold, but is programmatic buying [...]

Ross McNab is Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Kinected, a company whose stated purpose is to launch and operate world-class ad technologies in the Australian and wider APAC region, with partners, Unified, BlueKai and TagMan. To these existing companies, [...]

Let’s face it. We’re an industry that loves a good buzzword. We latch on to certain terms as if our careers – our very lives – depended on it. A couple of industry visionaries get to talking about some trend [...]

Over the last 12 months the attribution debate within digital marketing has slowly moved from whether or not advertisers should be doing attribution beyond the last click, to what kind of attribution they should be doing. Last week saw the launch [...]

ATS London Big Data sponsor IBM has just released an in-depth whitepaper addressing the issues surrounding Big Data. As everyone knows, Digital marketing has the potential to extract, interrogate and leverage large volumes of data. The challenges around high-cardinality in [...]

Damon Scarr is Commercial Director at Yahoo!7. Here he discusses the maturing mobile ad market in Australia and how publishers there can build a sustainable revenue model in the mobile channel. Mobile advertising seems to have had several false starts over [...]

Social targeting company Affectv is opening up its proprietary aggregated social data for a limited period. They plan to enable and empower others to extract value from it and to further understand human interactions and our digital social experiences. The [...]