Regulation GDPR

• The Stack: Ad Agency Wars 

  21 hours ago News

  

  This week, the advertising landscape saw billion dollar media shifts, a brewing agency feud, and government regulation in the works. In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Disney and Universal suing Midjourney over AI copyright infringement and WhatsApp joining the legal [...]

• Pixalate Finds 286 US Mobile Apps Violating COPPA, Risking Privacy of 18m Children

  3 weeks ago News

  

  Pixalate, the global market-leading ad fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform, has released the Q1 2025 State of Children’s Privacy on Mobile Apps Report, part of its COPPA Violation Risks in Mobile Apps series.  The report highlights app developers on [...]

• The Stack: A Big Week for Google 

  1 month ago News

  

  This week, Google dominated headlines with bold moves across content, advertising, and AI, while lawmakers and regulators intensified their efforts in the industry. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Tripledot’s acquisition of AppLovin’s mobile gaming unit, Apple’s AI search shaking [...]

• Digest: Google Broadens Content and Advertising Arsenal; TikTok Faces Regulatory Heat While Eyeing US Ban Reprieve

  1 month ago News

  

  In today’s Digest, we discuss Google broadening its content and advertising arsenal, TikTok facing regulatory heat while eyeing political reprieve, and Spotify adding podcast inventory to its ad exchange. Google Broadens Content and Advertising Arsenal Google is making moves across both content [...]

• The MadTech Sketch: How to Break Up Google

  2 months ago News

  

  After the latest antitrust ruling against Google, it seems like a good time to resurface Ciarán O’Kane's MadTech Sketch on how the Google ad tech business could look if it is broken up. First published July 2022 Ever since the WSJ broke [...]

• Aceex Kicks Off 2025 with TCF Vendor Status

  2 months ago News

  

  Ad tech company AceeX announces a strong start to the year with a series of strategic moves that position the company for accelerated growth and deeper industry integration. In Q1 2025, AceeX status was approved as Vendor 1387 of IAB Europe’s [...]

• Digest: X Faces $1 Billion Fine Under EU’s Digital Services Act; BBC pushes for Credit in Apple and Google News

  2 months ago News

  

  Today’s digest looks at a potential fine for X from the EU, copyright lawsuits brought against OpenAI and Microsoft being combined, the BBC pushing for more credit in Apple and Google News, and CNBC’s new streaming service. X Faces $1 Billion [...]

• MarkApp Achieves Official Registration as IAB TCF Vendor

  2 months ago News

  

  MarkApp (MarkApp Media LTD), an innovative leader in digital advertising technology, proudly announces its official registration as a vendor under the Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) managed by IAB Europe. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe's TCF is an essential compliance [...]

• Pixalate Research: 14.9K Mobile Apps with 32M+ EU Downloads May Violate GDPR

  3 months ago News

  

  Pixalate, the global market-leading ad fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform, released the Q4 2024 GDPR Evasion in the Mobile App Ecosystem: Privacy Policy Omissions & Legal Implications for SSPs and App Stores Report. The report examines apps across [...]

• Digest: Google Experiments with AI-Only Search Engine; EU Pushes Back on US Antitrust Regulation Criticism  

  3 months ago News

  

  Today's news digest looks at Google experimenting with a new AI-only search feature, the EU pushing back on criticism from the US over its antitrust regulation, as well as the Competition and Markets Authority deciding against formally investigating Microsoft's partnership [...]