On today’s ExchangeWire digest: Carlyle to Sell UK Video Games Maker Jagex for £900m; Google Pledges €25m to Boost AI Skills in Europe; Big Tech Meet for AI Opportunity Forum Big deals are on the table in the gaming landscape. Private [...]

The industry buzz around digital audio just keeps getting louder, and it makes sense: research has shown that audio ads outperform video ads in grabbing attention and generating brand recall. In 2023, on-demand audio overtook linear audio for the first [...]

GAMURS Group, a leading gaming, esports, and entertainment publisher, announced today (January 4th, 2024) its partnership with ArcSpan Technologies to leverage the ArcSpan AMS™ audience data monetisation platform for publishers. Following an extensive review, GAMURS has selected ArcSpan's AMS platform [...]

Over 265,000 members of the gaming community gathered in Cologne, Germany, for 2022’s Gamescom, the world’s largest gaming convention. The event was watched widely around the globe, amassing 130 million views online. Among the game launches announced at the event [...]

Bidstack is pleased to announce a new strategic partnership with AtPlay, which will see it act as a reseller for Bidstack’s suite of in-game advertising products in the Nordic market.  Bidstack has been pioneering the in-game advertising industry since 2017 and [...]

The Women Lifting Women initiative, a champion of gender equity and diversity, is thrilled to announce the launch of its new mentorship programme. A collaboration between market leaders NumberEight and in-game audio pioneer Odeeo, this mentorship programme will connect the [...]

Azerion, the digital advertising and entertainment media platform renowned for the social game Hotel Hideaway, proudly announces a collaboration with the non-profit organisation Sovereign Nature Initiative (SNI), benefitting the Forgotten Parks Foundation (FPF). Together, they are set to transform the [...]

Ciaran O'Kane looks on the bright side, and dives into the eight areas of focus that give adland reasons to be cheerful. The title of this post might suggest I am looking to ape Marc Anderseen’s verbose libertarian essay on why [...]

Set to be worth USD$470bn (~£385bn) globally before the decade is out, the gaming industry has surged in both value and popularity. In the US alone, 27% of people spend between 1 and 5 hours gaming each week, with the [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Microsoft appears set to close its billion-dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard; the UK's ICO threatens to fine Snapchat for failing to assess the privacy risks of its AI Chatbot; and Netflix pulls the plug on [...]