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• Digest: Google Offers Search Overhaul to Dodge EU DMA Fine and Pulls Out of Deal with Aussie Publishers; Apple Mulls Perplexity AI Acquisition

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  In today’s Digest, we discuss Google’s Search overhaul offer to dodge an EU DMA fine and Google backing out of its deal with Aussie publishers. Apple also mulls an acquisition of Perplexity AI, while being sued by shareholders over AI disclosures. Additionally, we [...]

• Digest: BBC Threatens Perplexity AI Over Content Scraping; Australia’s Tech Trial for Social Media Ban Receives Mixed Feedback

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  Today Dot discusses the BBC's legal threat against Perplexity AI over content scraping, Australia’s social media ban tech trial, and more...

• Mediacorp’s Raj Parekh on AI Search Reshaping the Industry, Perplexity Paying Publishers, and UK Broadcasters’ Battle Against the Streaming Giants

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  In this episode of the MadTech Podcast, ExchangeWire editor Aimee Newell Tarín is joined by head of content John Still and Raj Parekh, head, digital sales at Mediacorp.  They discuss how AI search is reshaping the industry, looking particularly at how [...]

• The Stack: Ad Industry Shakeups and Climate Reckonings

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  This week marked significant changes in the evolving relationship between advertising and climate responsibility. In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Google being hit in a €4.1bn Android fine battle, Microsoft considering abandoning high-stakes negotiations with OpenAI, OpenAI ending work with [...]

• Cannes Lions 2025: Recapping the Biggest Industry Moves on la Croisette 

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  We look at some of the biggest announcements from Cannes Lions this year, focusing on DSP tie-ups and partnerships in the agency world.  It’s been a scorching week, the sun shining down and the thermometers hitting 30° – and that’s just in [...]

• Digest: Netflix Inks Linear TV Deal with TF1; Trump to Delay TikTok Ban for a Third Time; CMA Throws Google a Lifeline 

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  In today’s Digest, we discuss Netflix inking a linear TV deal with TF1, Trump delaying the TikTok ban for a third time, TikTok Shop launching in Japan, and the CMA tossing Google’s Privacy Sandbox a lifeline. Netflix Inks Linear TV Deal [...]

• WPP Media’s Kate Scott-Dawkins on the User-Generated Content Boom, the Evolution of Search, and the Rise of Retail Media 

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  In this MadTech Podcast Special, ExchangeWire editor Aimee Newell Tarín is joined by Kate Scott-Dawkins, president, business intelligence, at WPP Media, to explore key topics from the company’s latest global advertising forecast revealed on 10th June.  She expands on three key [...]

• Digest: WhatsApp to Introduce Ads; Sainsbury’s to Launch AI-Powered Retail Media Platform; Disney Adds Amazon to DRAX

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  In today’s Digest, we cover WhatsApp introducing ads, Sainsbury’s launching an AI-powered retail media platform, Disney adding Amazon to DRAX, and Ad Net Zero expanding emissions standards across media channels. WhatsApp to Introduce Ads  WhatsApp is preparing to introduce ads on its [...]

• Finding Ad Tech’s North Star in the AI Era

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  Although AI is reshaping the industry, why does is still not feel like we are living in the future? Shirley Marschall explores when the real future of ad tech will arrive. Gen AI is old news. AI agents are the [...]

• Digest: UK Broadcasters to Launch Self-Serve TV Ad Marketplace; Roku & Amazon Deal Targets 80% of US CTV Audience

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  In today’s Digest, we cover UK broadcasters launching a self-serve TV ad marketplace, Roku and Amazon striking a deal to target 80% of the US CTV audience as well as Google cutting ties with Scale AI after Meta’s investment, and [...]