Season's greetings, listeners. Today TraderTalk looks at the 2011 year in full - with some perspective on possible trends in 2012. This edition covers everything from the rise of the trading desk in Europe to ad tech's growing obsession with acquiring/building the end-of-end stack. ExchangeWire Editor, Ciaran O'Kane, is ably assisted in the end-of-year review by the Guardian's Tim Gentry, Martin Kelly, Managing Partner at Infectious Media, ValueClick's Carl White and Eric Ward, Director, Digital Media at goetzpartners. So that you get all future episodes, you can subscribe to TraderTalk here.

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Ciaran O'Kane

Ciaran O’Kane is the Founder and Advisor to WireCorp, the publishing holding group focused on the digital advertising, retail technology and gaming sectors.  He has worked in digital advertising over the last twenty years as a developer, digital marketer, ad operations provider, media monetisation specialist and senior sales executive.  He continues to write editorial for ExchangeWire on advertising technology, marketing technology and programmatic  - and acts as an advisor to a number of leading digital media companies in Europe.

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