This week: Meta receives record fine in EU, TikTok sues the state of Montana... Another week of highs and lows for Meta began with news the tech giant was developing a new app to rival Twitter, with loose plans to launch [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Google pays USD$8m (~£6.4m) to settle claims of false advertising in Texas; Reddit advances into social commerce; and Shein opens its EMEA office in Dublin, Ireland. Google settles deceptive advertising claims in Texas Google has agreed to [...]

Touted as digital advertising’s “third wave”, retail media has emerged as one of the hottest topics in ad tech. Although the Covid-19 pandemic initially forced retailers to shift their focus onto the medium, retail media’s exponential growth can be attributed [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Shopify will cut 20% of its headcount and sell its logistics business; PubMatic launches a DSP-less media buying solution; and Meta close Facebook Online Paid Events. Shopify sheds staff, sells logistics business Shopify will lay off around [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: NPR announces it will leave Twitter after being labelled “state-affiliated media”; YouTube quietly abandons its shopping plaform; and Singaporean authorities turn to data from Singpass to help tackle and prevent fraud. NPR leaves Twitter over "inaccurate" [...]

The latest Financial Time / Statista ranking of Europe's fastest-growing companies was published this March 2023. The ranking lists the European companies with the highest annual growth rate between 2018 and 2021. The minimum average growth rate required to make the [...]

Following on from last week’s MadTechSketch, Ciaran O’Kane dives a little bit deeper on the “utility publishers” category that is becoming a mainstay of commerce media. Typically a utility publisher is a service not reliant on advertising as the primary revenue [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Apple may be working on an ad-supported tier for its Apple TV+ service; the European Commission bans TikTok use amongst staff over privacy concerns; and Amazon expands its ultra-fast delivery service. Ads may be coming to [...]

THG today (February 13th, 2023) announced an integration between its end-to-end proprietary technology platform, THG Ingenuity, and LiveRamp, the leading data collaboration platform. Using LiveRamp’s Safe Haven solution, Ingenuity will empower its brand clients to better connect their customers’ first-party [...]

This week: China to take “golden shares” of Alibaba as the e-commerce giant ventures into BNPL. Alibaba dominated headlines early this week, with reports that China was set to take shares of roughly 1% in the Hangzhou-based firm, alongside rival Tencent. [...]