In her latest ExchangeWire column, Shirley Marschall ponders on the complexities of the advertising funnel, and the need to simplify the ad tech stack.

In her latest musings for ExchangeWire, Shirley Marschall dives into the pitfalls of playing it safe and choosing the incumbent behemoths, over smaller yet better alternatives. There’s a pattern in ad tech. No, not a technical one. Nope, this is not [...]

DoubleVerify, the leading software platform to verify media quality, optimise ad performance, and prove campaign outcomes, today (30th June, 2025) announced the launch of DV Authentic Attention® for Social. The product will first launch with Snap, combining timely platform signals with [...]

In the second article in our series covering programmatic digital-out-of-home (pDOOH), in association with JCDecaux, Tom Bottomley, director, programmatic at Journey Further, examines the value programmatic can add to DOOH, the importance of omnichannel measurement, multi-market strategy and activation, as [...]

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 [...]

Digital advertising platform Azerion UK has entered a strategic partnership with cross-media measurement provider AudienceProject to bolster its omnichannel evaluation capabilities with independent audience measurement. The agreement covers connected TV (CTV) and online video (OLV) advertising, including campaigns on YouTube, [...]

Yahoo DSP today (April 29th, 2025) announced the launch of its Conversion API (Yahoo CAPI), a future-proof solution designed to help advertisers streamline measurement, attribution, and optimisation across channels. Yahoo CAPI allows advertisers to send conversion events directly to Yahoo DSP [...]

Kinetiq, the AI-powered platform unifying global media intelligence into actionable insights, today (March 27th, 2025) announced a strategic partnership with DAIVID, a pioneer in using AI to measure and improve the effectiveness of brands’ creative, to redefine how advertisers evaluate [...]

Adnami, a leader in high impact advertising solutions, has released, “It’s all about attention”, a white paper offering critical insights into why attention has become the most accurate metric for measuring advertising effectiveness. The report explores how advertisers and publishers [...]

On today’s news digest we look at fines on the horizon for Apple and Meta, and Barb unifying its CFlight and Advanced Campaign Hub. Plus, don’t forget to have your say in this year’s All In Census, which will contribute [...]