In our latest MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane draws out the pipes for data distribution... The recent acquisition of Lotame by Publicis raised a few eyebrows in ad tech circles. I'm not sure why, as it was a perfectly logical piece of M&A. [...]

With fingerprinting making the headlines, what are the genuine alternatives to the cookie that the ad industry should consider? Mark Smith looks at the runners and riders… Between a rock and a hard place Digital marketing is facing a dichotomy.  On one hand [...]

Ciaran O'Kane turns his trusty pen to Scope3's new agentic advertising platform, and why it's all about signal and scaled sell-side curation... Many will be chatting about the Scope3 “pivot” after its announcement today. But I see it as an evolution, [...]

In this op-ed, James Heimers, SVP of analytics at RAPP, discusses the investment in artificial intelligence, and what the industry can do to make AI work. The explosive growth in AI investment has been both lauded as transformative and criticised as [...]

In this opinion piece, Rafael Aquino discusses how advertisers can improve trust in data ownership, transparency and safety. He looks at cases for both traditional and new privacy-first solutions, investigating how we can truly build a privacy-first world. Before I [...]

Audigent, the leading data activation, curation, and identity platform, announced that it has been selected to serve as an initial launch partner for Google Ad Manager’s curation feature.  This new capability from Google’s SSP provides advertisers with a powerful tool to [...]

In our latest quarterly wrap, head of content John Still takes a look at the events that have defined Q3 2024. What made headlines over summer? It’s hard to look anywhere other than Google’s legal wranglings as we look back at [...]

Today’s news: Meta vs Germany; Guardian moves into affiliate advertising; 'China's Instagram' soaring In a multi-year antitrust challenge in Germany, Meta has been ordered by the Bundeskartellamt to limit data collection and linking to user accounts without consent. This decision comes [...]

The Wires 2024 shortlist is officially out. There's a lot of competition, and standards have been incredibly high - read on to discover who's made the cut... ExchangeWire's The Wires Awards has become a hallmark event in the ad tech industry. [...]

First-id is a solution for creating deterministic, anonymous, first-party identifiers that enables brands — both media and advertisers — to identify and reconcile all their consented internet users, on all partner sites, regardless of the browser or device used. In [...]