DoubleVerify, a leading software platform to verify media quality, optimise ad performance, and prove campaign outcomes, announced the expansion of its post-bid brand suitability measurement across thirty unique content-level categories on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram Feeds and Reels. These categories, [...]

This week, digital platforms face mounting pressure as regulators tighten online safety rules for minors, while the ad market shows steady growth. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Google joining the EU’s AI Code of Practice and AI boosting engagement [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover Google and Microsoft launching new AI features in search and browsing, Warner Bros Discovery revealing further details of its split, and Temu being accused of violating EU online safety law.

How has contextual changed amidst the AI revolution, and how can advertisers best harness it? Contextual targeting has been steadily growing in demand over the past years, making a mighty resurgence into the ecosystem. The contextual advertising market was valued [...]

In today’s digest, we cover YouTube’s ad revenue nearing $10bn while it decides to drop its Barb subscription, the UK putting tech giants’ age checks to the test, and Southeast Asia becoming TikTok’s largest ad audience.

Retail media networks (RMNs) and brands can now measure and optimise the creative effectiveness of their retail media ads in real time using an AI-powered tool launched by creative data provider DAIVID. DAIVID has updated its Creative Data Feed API to enable [...]

This week, AI advancements and shifting metrics highlight a rapidly evolving digital landscape. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover the UK targeting Apple and Google’s mobile dominance, ITV reporting a 30% profit fall in the first half of 2025, and [...]

EX.CO, the machine learning video technology platform powering successful video strategies for the world’s leading media groups, today announced the launch of a powerful new agentic AI taxonomy feature. This breakthrough solution enables publishers to automatically categorise their video content [...]

Today’s Digest discusses the UK striking an AI deal with OpenAI for public sector use, YouTube potentially being required to prioritise British public service broadcaster content, and ‘dark traffic’ surging 49% as ad blockers obscure 1 billion users.

In today’s Digest, we cover France investigating X for alleged algorithm manipulation, Perplexity seeking phone deals for its Comet AI browser, and the UK government looking to defuse its Apple encryption row with the US.