The Digest is back! In our first edition of 2026 we cover Meta acquiring Manus, ITV investing in The Body Coach app, and Adform acquiring Splicky…

What better way to start the year than have Shirley Marschall prescribe some goals for the ad tech industry...

Thrad, the AI-native advertising infrastructure provider, has announced the launch of the USD$500,000 (£370,000) Thrad Monetisation Fund. The initiative aims to solve a critical bottleneck in the current market: the lack of scalable revenue models for conversational AI products.  As AI [...]

In today’s digest we cover Google suing SerpApi over its web scraping activity, ByteDance boosting benefits for staff to attract and retain top AI talent around the globe, plus Facebook carrying out a test which limits the number of links [...]

From rising online consumption to blockbuster deals, data-driven upgrades and a rapid AI surge, the ad tech and media industry shifted gears once again this week. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover DoorDash partnering with OpenAI to enable grocery ordering [...]

Our 2026 predictions series rolls on apace, and today we’re looking at the future of the open web. What will our experts predict…?

Our expert panel looks at how the publishing industry can make the most of AI and use it to benefit their output…

In today’s Digest, we cover Amazon in talks to invest over USD$10bn in OpenAI, and OpenAI hiring George Osborne to lead its global ‘Stargate’ expansion. We also discuss the Trump administration threatening Spotify over EU tech rules, and an IAB [...]

Shirley Marschall takes in everything that occured in the world of AI and ad tech in 2026, and concludes that we might really need a break...

In the third AI piece in our 2026 predictions series, we look at how creative optimisation is changing in the era of AI. What do they expect to see next year?