ArcSpan, the AI-powered audience monetisation platform built for premium publishers, today ( 21st September, 2026) announced a native integration with First-id, a persistent, deterministic identity solution adopted by more than 35,000 media and advertiser sites in 101 countries. Publishers using [...]

Columnist Paul Evans looks at why the battle for transparency in ad tech is always going to be an uphill struggle…

DoubleVerify, the leading software platform to verify media quality, optimise advertising performance, and prove campaign outcomes, announced Ask Neura, a new conversational AI experience built directly into DV Pinnacle®, enabling advertisers and agencies to interact with DV data and insights [...]

IAB Europe has today (17th September, 2026 ) opened two new Commerce Media measurement standards documents for public comment. The documents advance that work by bringing greater consistency and transparency to measurement across in-store Retail Media and the growing Travel [...]

Today (17th September, 2026), Concord announced new capabilities designed to help brands make every media campaign smarter, more consistent, and easier to control.  Brands already know how their media should be bought: budgets, naming, targeting, brand safety, approvals, and reporting. The [...]

Shirley Marschall took a road trip around Europe, and the experience got her thinking about ad tech tolls...

Global, the Media and Entertainment group, today (15th September, 2026) announced that its chief commercial officer, Mike Gordon, is stepping down from the role in 2027 after 18 years at the media group. He will remain on the Global Board [...]

Adelaide’s AU metric will power guaranteed media quality thresholds across Duolingo’s in-app advertising inventory. Duolingo is launching AU guarantees powered by Adelaide, giving advertisers a contractual commitment to a minimum level of media quality across its in-app inventory using AU, Adelaide’s [...]

Nexxen, the advertising technology platform powered by unique data and media, today (9th September, 2026) announced an expanded partnership with Scale Marketing ("Scale"), an independent, full-service agency based in Chicago. Leveraging Nexxen’s unified platform and enterprise demand-side platform ("DSP") capabilities, [...]

In today’s Digest, we discuss IPA data showing Brits increasingly consuming commercial media alone, particularly among younger audiences, a new ISBA study putting UK retail media networks under the microscope, and Australia proposing a law that would let users switch [...]