In today’s Digest, we discuss Apple moving to block hundreds of programmatic data firms, Skydance uniting Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, and the EU preparing to classify Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services as DMA gatekeepers.

In today’s Digest, we discuss 58% of ad executives expecting agentic buying to scale within a year, Apple and Amazon facing a renewed UK consumer case, and A24, Sony and The New York Times circling Letterboxd.

This week, AI pushed deeper into shopping and food delivery, while major deals and legal developments reshaped the media and ad tech landscape. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Citi entering advertising with a new ad business and IAB Europe [...]

In today’s Digest, we look at Paramount clearing a legal hurdle ahead of its Warner merger, Amazon blocking Meta’s AI assistant in an agentic shopping standoff, and Ant Group reshaping Alipay for agentic commerce.

In today’s Digest, we look at Amazon Ads bringing advertisers to ChatGPT, new filings revealing Sony’s early sharing of the WPP rebate probe, and Omnicom planning 15,000 job cuts as ad integration stumbles.

In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Meta naming a new CMO and its first-ever Chief Data Officer; Australia suing Amazon over Prime Video ads; and OpenAI expanding hiring to develop new AI advertising formats. 

In today’s Digest, we cover Apple and the EU holding talks over Siri’s AI rollout; DeepSeek introducing peak-hour API pricing amid China’s AI price war; and Amazon reporting that AI-referred purchases have doubled. 

Thrad, the AI-native advertising infrastructure platform, is enabling brands to reach shoppers inside AI conversations as Amazon’s Prime Day 2026 gets underway. The four-day event, which runs from 23rd to 26th June, arrives at a moment when a growing share [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover Perplexity facing a CNN lawsuit over a copyright dispute, Amazon launching new bidstream signal tools, and Pichai downplaying fears around ‘Google Zero’. 

This week, Shirley takes a look at how Amazon's recent moves suggest a company going all in on advertising...