News in brief: Meta and Amazon Distance Themselves from DEI; Venu Sports Streaming Cancelled; Apple UK Antitrust Trial Begins Meta and Amazon Distance Themselves from DEI Meta has decided to terminate its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes, reports Axios. A memo [...]

This week on The Stack: Meta to End Fact-Checking While X’s Content Moderation Comes Under Further Scrutiny; WWE’s Netflix Debut; Japan Announces Action Against Google    Meta shocked many this week by announcing the end of fact-checking for its social media platforms, [...]

News in brief: Meta to End Third-Party Fact-Checking Program; Singapore Considers Social Media Age Restrictions; Disney to Combine Hulu + Live TV with FuboTV  Meta to End Third-Party Fact-Checking Program   Meta has announced it will be ending its third-party fact-checking program, instead [...]

News in brief: Global Ad Spend to Surpass $1tn in 2024; TikTok Shop Launches in Spain; European Regulators Examine Google and Meta’s Ad Partnership  Global Ad Spend to Surpass $1tn in 2024 Global ad spend is set to rise by 9.5% in [...]

This week on The Stack: M&A takes off; Google, Meta and Apple privacy woes; Today’s MadTech Daily  It's been a big week for ad tech M&A, with Viant acquiring IRIS.TV, Alliant being sold to Inverness Graham, MediaSense buying R3 and Azerion [...]

News in brief: Sky Faces Bill for Underpaying Ad Partners; Meta Digital Ad Growth Slows; Gov Funding for UK Creative Industries Confirmed  Sky Faces Bill for Underpaying Ad Partners Sky is facing a bill of hundreds of millions of pounds following a [...]

News in brief: Google ordered to pay €26.5m in damages to Equativ over anti-competitive behaviour; Meta moves into the AI podcast game; Elon Musk's X set to miss political advertising revenue targets Google Fined for Anti-Competitive Practices in Online Advertising The Paris [...]

Today’s news: PayPal Launches Ad Business; Meta Expands Ad Placement Controls and Brings AI Chatbot to UK; Privacy Certification for Ad Tech In The Works PayPal has launched an ad business, PayPal Ads, which will allow advertisers to tap into their [...]

Today’s news: Ads Arrive to Google’s AI Overviews; OpenAI Raises $6.6bn in Funding; Meta and Apple Reject EU’s AI Pact  Ads are finally arriving to Google’s AI Overviews, the tech giant announced in a blog post last week. The feature was [...]

This week on The Stack: Pressure Mounts on Google; Meta Improves DMA Compliance; Today’s MadTech Daily  This week our ATS London event took place. From discussions about retail media to curation, speakers imparted insights about the latest industry hot topics. Of [...]