In today’s Digest, we cover MidOcean Partners’ plans to acquire GSTV, Zuckerberg’s past consideration of spinning off Instagram amid antitrust concerns, and the Bertelsmann CEO’s renewed push to revive a £3.1bn merger with French broadcaster MidOcean Partners to acquire GSTV MidOcean Partners [...]

Today's digest looks at Trump extending the TikTok sale deadline for the second time, Meta's fact checking finally coming to an end for all US users, and WPP's acquisition of InfoSum. Trump Extends TikTok Sale Deadline Again President Trump has [...]

Major agencies are investing in ID and data solutions, with WPP’s purchase of InfoSum the latest acquisition. In her latest feature, Shirley Marschall looks at the real reason why the ad tech arms race is really hotting up… What do these [...]

Ciaran O'Kane turns his trusty pen to Scope3's new agentic advertising platform, and why it's all about signal and scaled sell-side curation... Many will be chatting about the Scope3 “pivot” after its announcement today. But I see it as an evolution, [...]

We recap this week’s biggest news across the media, marketing, and ad tech industries. Plus, more news in today's MadTech Daily covering another huge industry acquisition, as well as earnings figures from ITV and Havas. Acquisitions in ad tech went full [...]

Publicis Groupe today (6th March, 2025) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Lotame, the world’s leading independent identity solution, in an update on its AI strategy presented by Arthur Sadoun (click HERE to see the film). A [...]

Today's news digest looks at the latest industry acquisitions, Google urging the US Government not to force a breakup of its company, and Disney cutting jobs across its TV Networks. T-Mobile Buys Blis; Applovin to Sell Gaming Unit? T-Mobile has announced [...]

Today’s digest covers the latest acquisitions in the ad tech industry, new data exposing the severity of publishers’ struggle against AI search engines, and the countdown for this year’s All In Census.  Interpublic Group Sells R/GA to Truelink Capital; Viant Technology [...]

DoubleVerify, a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics,  announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Rockerbox, a global leader in marketing attribution.  Rockerbox’s unified marketing measurement platform provides actionable insights powered by multi-touch attribution [...]

Après le succès de l’ouverture de sa filiale canadienne, Axeptio, leader des plateformes de gestion du consentement (CMP), accélère son déploiement à l’international avec l’acquisition d’AdOpt, acteur majeur du marché brésilien. Loin d’être une simple implantation, cette alliance avec AdOpt [...]