Intent IQ, a privacy-first identity resolution company, today  (3rd February, 2026) announced a partnership with Raptive to deploy Intent IQ’s Bid Enhancement offering across Raptive’s publisher network. Through the partnership, Raptive will integrate Intent IQ’s Bid Enhancement to improve bid performance [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover the IAB forecasting 9.5% US ad spend growth in 2026 driven by digital and agentic AI, OpenAI eyeing USD$40bn (£29.6bn) in funding from Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft, as well as  Nine selling 2GB and 3AW [...]

We examine the introduction of advertising to ChatGPT and what it could mean for advertisers, consumers, and the wider AI ecosystem...

We’re entering a new era of advertising. How will ads on LLMs change the game for advertisers, what does it mean for consumers, and how is OpenAI’s competition against Google shaping up?    We recently saw a huge announcement we’d all been [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover the BBC Group and YouTube striking a strategic UK partnership, the FTC moving to appeal aMeta antitrust ruling, and the IPA launching the IPAi Forum focused on generative AI.

This week’s headlines paint a clear picture: AI is becoming the backbone of business strategy. In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss global ad spend set to top $1tn in 2026, WPP poised for FTSE 100 demotion, and the EU probing [...]

Adsquare, the global location intelligence platform, today announced a new measurement integration with DistrictNine, a leading programmatic agency and technology partner, enabling advertisers to measure the real-world impact of their campaigns directly within the DistrictNine platform. Through this integration, DistrictNine [...]

From bigger budgets and smarter auctions to instant TV ads, this week saw the media and ad tech industries racing toward an automated future. In today’s Digest, we cover Perplexity launching a tool to simplify online shopping, a Spanish court [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover major shifts for advertisers in 2026 media budgets, ChatGPT offering target shopping via OpenAI, and OpenAI striking a deal with Intuit for personal finance integration. We also discuss Meta being cleared of monopoly claims over [...]

In today’s Digest, we discuss the IAB launching a faster ad auction protocol, NBCUniversal preparing to debut its new NBC Sports Network, and Alibaba rolling out an AI tool to streamline sourcing.