This week, AI continued to reshape shopping, advertising and data management, while regulators and technology companies clashed over privacy, platform responsibility and the future of digital competition. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Netflix expanding its ad measurement capabilities, Spotify [...]

AudioStack, the agentic audio production platform for media and advertising, announced it is rolling out support for ElevenLabs' newly launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo models across its platform. The rollout is part of AudioStack's ongoing strategy of orchestrating [...]

In today’s digest: Publicis reaches settlement with the FTC over its planned LiveRamp acquisition, a New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25bn (£19bn) in penalties over misleading users on privacy, and retail media firm Kevel raises $52m (£19bn) and [...]

Kevel, the ad tech infrastructure empowering commerce businesses to build media networks they own and grow, today (21st October, 2026) announced USD$52m (£38.9m) in new capital, marking the largest capital raise in the company’s history. The financing includes expanded strategic [...]

What do you really use AI for? Shirley Marschall asks where the true value lies in everyday AI agents…

Adzymic, today (20th October, 2026) launched AgenX Sales Agent, enabling media owners to make their premium advertising inventory available to AI buyers across display, video, digital out-of-home and high-impact digital ad formats. Media owners who have made their inventory available [...]

In today’s digest, Apple defends its WebKit crackdown on ad tech identity resolution and signals more to come, YouTube tests AI answers at the top of search results, and Meta removes contract language over scraping business websites for AI training

In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Google rolls out Universal Cart, its AI shopping tool, in the US ahead of the holiday season, Universal Music Group launches layoffs and an executive shake-up across the US and UK, and Apple and Meta [...]

Thrad, the leading advertising platform for AI conversations, today (15th October, 2026) announced Monetisation Fund II, a rolling programme that commits up to USD$1m (£893,000) in advertiser spend to eligible consumer AI applications and publishers through Thrad’s DSP. The fund [...]

All today's ad tech news: Netflix cuts around 6% of its workforce, UK marketing budgets hit a two-year high in Q3 and more...