This week, corporate shake-ups and shifting consumer behaviour dominated the advertising and media landscape, with Big Tech facing mounting scrutiny. In today’s MadTech Daily, we look at The Trade Desk’s leaked deck revealing its agentic AI plans, Nine cutting the [...]

Sigma Software today (27th August, 2026) announced that Katherine Tuluzova, CEO of Sigma Software, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of IAB Tech Lab, the global technical standards body for the digital advertising industry. IAB Tech Lab develops and [...]

StackAdapt, the leading AI advertising and orchestration platform, unveils The AI Delegation Gap, a global report examining how marketers are redefining the role of artificial intelligence in advertising.  While AI adoption has become mainstream, the findings suggest a gap between ambition [...]

This week, AI continued to reshape advertising, search and consumer technology, while regulators and industry players pushed to redefine the rules of the digital ecosystem. In today we cover Ex-WPP Executive Claiming Sony probe uncovered $350m in client rebates 

In today’s Digest, we cover OpenAI expanding its ChatGPT ads pilot to 31 European markets, Apple’s latest spyware alert wave appearing to be its largest yet, according to a digital rights group, and Taboola striking an exclusive programmatic display deal [...]

In today’s Digest, we discuss Apple overhauling app tracking consent rules following a German antitrust probe, France’s top court blocking an under-15 social media ban in a setback to Macron, and Alibaba offloading its gaming unit Lingxi Games to Trustar [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover Apple training its own AI model for China with Alibaba’s help, Walmart Connect adding negative keyword controls for sponsored ads, and Audigent’s brand disappearing as Experian absorbs it into its marketing services division.

This week, the advertising and media landscape saw major consolidation, growing regulatory pressure and a continued shift towards AI-powered commerce and content. In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss investors betting on a USD$2tn (£1.50tn) IPO valuation for Anthropic and Tencent’s [...]

AdPlayer.Pro is marking a decade in the video ad tech space, looking back at 10 years of innovation and partnerships since its launch in 2016. What started as a single-product startup has evolved into a prominent video advertising provider. Over the [...]

In today's Digest, we discuss French publishers taking Google to the competition regulator over AI Overviews, Perplexity moving to block Time's ads aimed at AI agents, and Disney+ and Hulu adding iHeartMedia video podcasts as streaming platforms race into the [...]