Tag Archives: xaxis

The giant octopus that’s Google (Goldman Sachs has already nabbed the giant squid) is setting its sights on TV ad buying – programmatic version – by offering advertisers the chance to buy TV through its DoubleClick platform that already serves ...

Agency trading desks continue to be the dominant model for programmatic ad buying, used as the principal approach for nearly 40 per cent of the world’s biggest brands, according to new research by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA). However ...

WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell likes years with big events – he reckons, correctly no doubt, that advertisers flood in to such things like lemmings – and they don’t come much bigger than the US presidential election. Nearly $12bn has ...

We wondered if Kelly Clark’s departure as CEO of WPP’s GroupM in North America might signal closer ties between WPP’s media holding company and newly-minted programmatic gold mine Xaxis and – it does. Xaxis CEO Brian Lesser (left) is replacing ...

To London’s gleaming new Ham Yard hotel for an IPA (agency trade body) do featuring Sir Martin Sorrell, the subject of much debate over the previous weekend when details of his humungous £36m bonus share award slipped out. Sorrell (below) ...

Publics Groupe’s VivaKi digital media operation has joined the agency groups in apparent full retreat from proprietary ad trading, dismantling its 120-strong ad trading unit and despatching them back to individual Publicis agencies. WPP has already moved in the same ...

One thing we will be hearing a lot more about in 2015 is ‘programmatic’ TV and video and WPP is determined to be a major player in this through its Xaxis operation. It’s quite hard to work out what Xaxis ...

WPP’s Xaxis data cum media buying platform has come under fire recently for, among other things, a lack of transparency and the marcoms giant has moved swiftly and dramatically to remedy things. WPP is investing $25m and injecting its ‘Xaxis ...

Xaxis is the part of WPP’s huge data operation that fuels its programmatic buying business – clients hand over the task of buying media online to the WPP/GroupM company and it adds a bit on top. In other words, it’s ...