OAREX, a leading provider of capital solutions to the global digital media ecosystem, and FirstPartyFinance, an arm of FirstPartyCapital, the investor and strategic partner to innovative advertising and marketing technology businesses, today (13th May, 2026) announced a strategic partnership designed [...]

Audion, an AI-powered advertising platform specialising in digital audio, announces USD$15m (£11m) in Series B funding. This will enable it to build on its UK and European growth with a launch in the United States; it will also accelerate the [...]

Bedrock Platform today (19th February, 2026) announced the successful close of its seed extension funding round, led by London-based First Party Capital, with NY-based Aperiam Ventures joining as a co-investor. The round brings additional strategic capital and deep ad tech [...]

In today’s Digest, we discuss Apple’s new ‘Answers’ team aimed at enhancing AI search capabilities, OpenAI’s $8.3bn fundraising round, and Shein’s €1m greenwashing fine in Italy.

In today’s Digest, we cover TripleLift laying off staff amid cuts, xAI seeking a $200bn valuation in its next fundraise, and Hearst taking over the Dallas Morning News after 140 years.

Paapi, a next-generation ad measurement platform, has closed a £420,000 pre-seed funding round led by SFC Capital, the UK’s most active early-stage investor. The initial round was oversubscribed by 20%. Paapi is tackling one of ad tech’s biggest challenges: giving brands [...]

FirstPartyCapital (FPC), the leading global sector-focused fund, today (11th June, 2025) announces a multi-million pound investment from IX Labs, the investment arm of Index Exchange, one of the world’s largest independent supply-side platforms (SSPs). This strategic partnership comes as FirstPartyCapital [...]

StackAdapt, a leading AI-powered programmatic advertising platform, has announced a USD$235m (£187.6m) equity funding round. Led by Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), the investment arm of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, the round also saw participation from Intrepid Growth Partners and [...]

Ad tech startup XPLN.AI has announced a USD$8mn (£6.1mn) funding round, led by Ventech and Spring Invest.  Redefining advertising effectiveness: For the past 15 years, standard advertising metrics such as impressions, viewability, and completion-rates have dominated the definitions of ad quality, [...]

Adelaide, the leader in attention-based media quality measurement, has secured an additional $1.4m (£1.079m)in a seed-extension round led by Aperiam Ventures. New investments from GOAL Ventures and Nishat Mehta, along with participation from previous investors BlueTree and Human Ventures, contributed [...]