In today’s Digest, we cover Australia’s plan to tax Meta over news payments, podcast industry revenue reaching USD$7.3bn, far exceeding previous estimates, and India’s mobile app revenue hitting a record USD$345m, driven by AI and streaming.

In today’s Digest, we cover the IAB Tech Lab releasing AAMP 2.3 to bring agentic advertising into production, ByteDance projecting USD$4bn (£3.16bn) in AI revenue, and a Singapore panel rejecting social media age bans.

In today’s Digest, we cover UK ad spend rising 9.3% in Q1 2026 to reach £11.7bn, Unilever raising its full-year guidance after its strongest sales volume growth in 16 years, and Netflix overtaking the BBC as UK viewers’ first choice, [...]

In her latest column, Jessica Treasure of Bountiful Cow looks at why, even in an AI world, the fastest way to be known at scale is still fame…

Shirley Marschall is back, and this week she's looking at why, as sure as the freshly-mowed lawn once again becomes overgrown, ad tech's problems just keep coming back...

ADvendio, an omnichannel advertising management platform, today (19th May, 2026) announced its strategic partnership with Kevel, the leading provider of retail media infrastructure, to help retailers scale their retail media operations with efficient, agentic operations.As retail media continues to expand [...]

All the goings on in the ad tech world this week, plus today's MadTech Daily Podcast...

This week, agency AI-driven advertising took a leap forward, while governments tightened their grip on Big Tech and platforms raced to evolve their ecosystems. In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Meta being found in breach of EU law over child [...]

Opti Digital, the leading ad tech company specialising in publisher revenue optimisation, today announced a successful collaboration with Navigate Health through its Ad Manager Hub. Navigate Health is a UK-based digital health company dedicated to making healthcare more accessible, personalised, and [...]