International fraud is a huge problem and is threatening to seriously harm this industry.

According to Recode, Snap has acquired San Francisco-based ad tech firm Flite - partly, some say, to acquire its coterie of professionals.

Some end-of-the-year naval gazing on such topics as the IAB's stance on native advertising and the dramatic rise of programmatic digital video ads.

I spoke to Kristin Dolan, former COO of Cablevision, who together with partner Ben Tatta, Cablevision's former media sales president, have founded a new company - 605.