» It was announced last night that Dapper has been acquired by Yahoo for an undisclosed sum - but it's likely to have been in the $40-$50 million dollar range. Dapper's dynamic creative solution has been getting a lot [...]

It's time for a bit of back-slapping and industry smugness, as the latest IAB survey confirms how great we all are. The display market grew 6.4% to £381 million in the first half of this year. The growth [...]

They came from Germany, Holland, France, Italy, Sweeden, Canada, Australia, the US and of course London town. All 190 packed into the Paramount club on the thirty-first floor of the centre point building - there to discuss the exchange [...]

» The opening of a dedicated data centre by Appnexus is kind of old news, as the data centre in Holland has been active for the past two months. But you have to still applaud Appnexus for having the [...]

One of the things I took away from the recent Ad Trading Summit was that the ad network is alive and well. Its present model might be getting battered from increased DSP spend but it’s evolving to meet the [...]

» Mike Nolet, who appeared at the recent Ad Trading Summit, blogs very sparingly these days. But when he does put up a post, it is essential reading for everyone in our space. The topic of his recent [...]

The death of the ad network continues to be greatly exaggerated. They still have strong market share in the UK, and Europe - and are still making lots of money (Vegas, anyone?). But the arrival of DSPs and [...]

Terry Kawaja published a visual overview of the convoluted US display eco-system last year. It demonstrated how crowded the middle ground between the advertiser and publisher was becoming - and indeed why the display space was ripe for mass [...]

Looking at these figures released by Comscore during the week about the UK display market confirms to me that nobody in our industry knows how big the ad net market actually is. Apart for the finger-in-the-wind estimation carried out by [...]

Display advertising is still getting short-changed when it comes to proper allocation of advertising spend. Some say it's the metrics - should we really be so obsessed with CTRs. Some say it's the rubbish creatives that populate standard [...]