This week, agency AI-driven advertising took a leap forward, while governments tightened their grip on Big Tech and platforms raced to evolve their ecosystems. In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Meta being found in breach of EU law over child [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover Pinterest launching CTV audiences following its tvScientific deal, Google signing a Pentagon agreement for ‘any lawful’ AI use, and Anthropic testing AI-to-AI commerce in an internal marketplace pilot.

This week, industry players faced mounting legal pressure, sweeping job cuts, and major leadership shifts, signalling a period of deep structural change across the industry. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover WBD shareholders approving Paramount–Skydance deal , WPP Consolidates Commerce [...]

Axis, a multi-product ad tech company building high-performance programmatic infrastructure for publishers and advertisers, announced it has been granted Google Authorised Buyer status (Buyer ID: 8045927652). The accreditation gives Axis and its partners direct access to Google's Ad Exchange (AdX), [...]

Today we cover advertisers reporting prices dropping for ads on ChatGPT, Google holding discussions with the Pentagon for a Gemini deal, as well as the BBC and Bauer Media planning massive workforce cuts.  Price drops for ChatGPT ads  OpenAI is lowering the [...]

This week Shirley Marschall is looking at the rise of smart glasses, and what the ad industry makes of this new wearable tech... Things that don’t mix well: water and oil. Pizza and pineapple. Mentos and cola. Red wine and a [...]

HBAgency, the international ad tech company specialising in programmatic yield optimisation for publishers, is expanding its footprint across Latin America and Spain — markets it considers central to its growth strategy for 2026 and beyond. Founded in 2018, HBAgency has built a proprietary [...]

Google is facing more antitrust scrutiny from EU regulators over its search advertising auctions, plus news on Alibaba and Bytedance...

Google's earning are out. In her weekly column, Shirley Marschall takes a look at the tech behemoth's power, and tells us what exactly an eiergelende wollmilchsau is...

Teads, the omnichannel outcomes platform, has partnered with Google TV to expand its connected TV (CTV) HomeScreen ad inventory significantly. This strategic partnership gives brands access to one of the most prominent, high-attention placements on connected television, appearing as the [...]