News in brief: Spotify gets into the ad exchange business; Nvidia expanding into India's AI market; LinkedIn fined for breaching privacy rules Spotify is testing a new ad exchange, called Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX), to boost its automated ad offerings, focusing [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Japanese authorities consider a moderate approach to regulating AI; Goldman Sachs may be ending its partnership with Apple; and FTX seeks funding to resurrect its crypto exchange. Japan deliberates gentle approach to AI regulation  Japan is reportedly [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the FTC asks for an injunction to block Microsoft's purchase of Activison Blizzard; Nasdaq is set to buy Adenza for USD$10.5bn (~£8.3bn); and Insight Partners slashes the target for its latest fund. FTC asks for injunction [...]

Yieldmo, the smart advertising exchange that differentiates and enhances the value of ad inventory for buyers and sellers, commemorated Earth Day by announcing its partnership with Cedara, the carbon intelligence platform, to become the first digital advertising platform to holistically [...]

GumGum, a contextual first, global advertising platform, announced that starting immediately, all impressions running on GumGum’s ad exchange will now have enhanced brand safety protection through Verity™, GumGum’s proprietary and accredited contextual intelligence platform. Verity is already integrated and applied [...]

Index Exchange Inc. (Index), one of the world’s largest independent ad exchanges, today announced its expansion into Northern Europe and the Baltics through an exclusive partnership with Netric Sales AB. The entrance into the region comes on the heels of [...]

Manadge, the advertising management platform specialised in programmatic, has announced the extension of its presence in Italy by partnering with sales house Adasta. Using Manadge's technology, Adasta can easily analyse its ad stack and increase monetisation performance across all its [...]

Index Exchange, one of the world’s largest independent ad exchanges, today (8th June) announced its first-ever business acquisition of Rivr Technologies GmbH (Rivr), a Berlin-based company specialising in advanced machine learning-based traffic optimisation capabilities. The acquisition accelerates Index’s efforts to address [...]

Global lifecycle marketing experts Crimtan are set to revolutionise mobile advertising with a new product that includes a unique Attention Time Measurement Tool (ATT) In 2021, global ad spend on mobile advertising topped USD$295bn (£224.8bn). But how much of that money [...]

Verve Group, a privacy-first omnichannel ad platform, today announced the acquisition of Smaato through a subsidiary of its parent company Media and Games Invest SE (MGI). The transaction places Smaato at an enterprise value of USD $170m (£122.6m). The acquisition [...]