This week, governments turned up the heat on AI and Big Tech as holding companies doubled down on artificial intelligence to stay ahead. In today’s Digest, we discuss the ad industry unveiling the new AdCP standard, major publishers facing a [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover WPP striking a USD$400m AI deal with Google, Spotify partnering with Netflix on video podcasts, and Google offering search fixes as an EU fine looms.

StackAdapt, the leading technology company in advertising and marketing, today (15th October, 2025) announced the general availability (GA) of its martech suite, marking a major milestone in the company’s evolution from a programmatic platform to a full-funnel integrated marketing solution.  Now [...]

Whilst native advertising has diminished in quality in the last 5 years and has been used traditionally for lower funnel conversion only strategies, Readpeak excels in the mid-funnel where customers are in the explorational and consideration phases of the purchase [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover Publicis raising its forecast again as AI fuels growth, California moving to govern AI chatbots, and the EU striking a compromise on sustainability reporting.

PubMatic, an independent technology company delivering the digital advertising supply chain of the future, announced the latest results of a multi-year integration of NVIDIA technology to leverage accelerated computing for programmatic advertising’s unique requirements across the open internet.  By working with [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover the CMA designating Google strategic market status in search, India piloting AI chatbot-led e-commerce, and Reddit making a major Madison Avenue hire.

This week brought a number of alignment moves across the global ad and AI landscapes from new retail standards to strategic platform partnerships. In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss ITV launching its GenAI Ads Manager, the UK ad regulator trialling [...]

Global ad laws were already a patchwork. Then came AI. Faster, fuzzier, and harder to govern. Avya Chaudhary uncovers what brands are quietly doing to solve the legal puzzle...

Ciaran O'Kane revaluates his sketch on AI's impact on the marketing funnel, and adds audio into the mix...