In today's ExchangeWire Digest: Walmart grows ads business by 46%; TikTok draws backlash for mandatory AI tool; OpenAI questions Zuckerberg role in USD$97bn (£71.2bn) Musk takeover offer. Walmart grows ads business by 46% Walmart’s advertising revenue increased by 46% year-over-year, as revealed [...]

The week was marked by shifting power plays between governments, platforms, and advertisers. MSQ rejected a merger deal which never was with S4 Capital, Google eased Play Store restrictions in Europe whilst simultaneously being hit by regulatory action in Australia, [...]

In our latest MadTech Sketch, Ciaran O'Kane draws out the pipes for data distribution... The recent acquisition of Lotame by Publicis raised a few eyebrows in ad tech circles. I'm not sure why, as it was a perfectly logical piece of M&A. [...]

In today’s Digest, we cover MidOcean Partners’ plans to acquire GSTV, Zuckerberg’s past consideration of spinning off Instagram amid antitrust concerns, and the Bertelsmann CEO’s renewed push to revive a £3.1bn merger with French broadcaster MidOcean Partners to acquire GSTV MidOcean Partners [...]

In today’s ExchangeWire digest: Barb to start reporting YouTube viewing on TV screens; DoubleVerify acquires Rockerbox; and Schibsted Media acquires T4 and MTV Finland Barb to start reporting YouTube viewing on TV screens Joint industry currency (JIC) Barb has announced that it [...]

News in brief: Huge Agency Merger on the Horizon? Go Ahead Given for The Observer Sale; Channel Factory Seeks Backer; Perplexity Adds Publishers to Ad Revenue Program  Omnicom to buy IPG? Huge agency news broke on Sunday evening, as Omnicom is reportedly [...]

News in brief: Viant Technology acquires IRIS.TV, The Guardian to halt X content posting, and Alliant sold to private equity. Viant Acquires IRIS.TV California-based programmatic advertising platform Viant Technology has announced the acquisition of CTV content data platform IRIS.TV for an undisclosed [...]

News in brief: CMA demands revised Privacy Sandbox commitments from Google; MediaSense acquires R3 Media; and Azerion snaps up Goldbach Austria GmbH CMA demands revised Privacy Sandbox commitments from Google The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued its latest report [...]

The hotly-anticipated MadTechMoney event returns with a stellar line-up this week. We caught up with First Party Capital's Managing Director Rich Ashton to discuss the event, ad tech M&A, and much more... How would you best summarise the MadTechMoney event? The only [...]

After a prolonged snooze, investment and M&A dormancy in ad tech is perhaps finally at an end. After a steady drizzle of activity, a torrential downpour of consolidation poured upon the industry in June. In this article, ExchangeWire research lead [...]