UK marketing budgets made a bounce back in Q2 2025, following their drop in the previous quarter. We look at what industry leaders make of the latest findings.  Marketing budgets expanded at the strongest pace in a year during the second [...]

Covatic, a leader in privacy-first audience solutions, today (July 11th, 2025) announced Contextual Event Traits, a powerful new enhancement to its platform designed to give publishers, media owners, and marketers unprecedented precision and flexibility in audience segmentation.  This feature enables publishers [...]

Blis, the leading provider of advertising solutions that drive real-world outcomes, today (12th June, 2025) announced the launch of Blis AI, a new AI-powered planning tool that seamlessly turns a brief into qualified audiences ready for omnichannel activation – without [...]

Franck Vidal, director, Southeast Asia sales & partnerships of ATS Singapore 2025 event sponsor Vistar Media, looks at why programmatic is a constant in a constantly moving marketplace… Uncertainty is becoming the new normal. From shifting global supply chains to fluctuating [...]

We look at the findings from the latest IPA Bellwether report, with insights from experts across the marketing industry.  Overall marketing budgets for Q1 2025 fell for the first time in four years, the latest IPA Bellwether report reveals. A net [...]

Intent IQ, a leader in cookieless audience targeting and identity resolution, today (March 14th, 2025) announced its collaboration with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, to provide marketers with a comprehensive, privacy-first solution for activating and onboarding target audiences. Through [...]

Today's digest looks at TikTok and Reddit coming under the scrutiny of the UK's Information Commissioner's Office, trouble in the creative development process, and new updates from Google. TikTok and Reddit Under Privacy Scrutiny  TikTok and Reddit are two of the [...]

News in brief: Consumers Shift Spend to Align with Values; Nine in Ten Shoppers Want Omnichannel Experiences; Marketers to Increase Budgets  Consumers Shift Spend to Align with Values With Trump back in the White House, politics are the cause of many US [...]

Marketers will be able to measure and optimise the effectiveness of their creative at scale using marketing mix modelling (MMM) through a new global partnership between MASS Analytics, a leading provider of MMM solutions, and creative effectiveness platform DAIVID. The deal [...]

How can marketers best harness the tools at their disposal to advertise successfully for Black Friday?  In the UK alone, forecasts estimate that spending over the whole Black Friday weekend could surpass £9bn. Although inflation has eased considerably since October 2022, [...]