In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Tencent divest around USD $20bn worth of shares in Meituan; Apple are hit with a lawsuit for allegedly continuing to track iPhone users who disabled tracking; and Carlyle acquire a majority stake in digital marketing [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Google agree to pay more than USD $390m to settle charges around location tracking; Meta retire their Portal and Smartwatch products; and executives flee Twitter following turmoil under Elon Musk's ownership. Google pay more [...]

From the establishment of GDPR in Europe in 2016 to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, access and use of data from people around the world has become a critical issue for players across the entire ad tech ecosystem.  Crucially, the increasing prevalence [...]

ID5, the market-leading identity provider for digital advertising, announced the launch of its Product Advisory Group, an independent organisation of eleven permanent corporate members. Together, these companies will collaborate with ID5 as it continues its efforts to reinvent user identification [...]

In this exclusive Q&A, Tanya Field, co-founder and CPO of Novatiq, discusses how ad infrastructure is changing as the industry shifts towards first-party data, with a particular focus on MENA.  The region is considered to be in the midst of a [...]

This week: Binance loses up to USD$500m (~£450.5m) in a massive network hack, the US talks with the EU to maintain access to European citizens’ data… Privacy - or lack thereof - has been a common theme across ad tech this [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the US rewrites its digital privacy rules to retain data on European citizens; Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein sees its value drop by up to one third; and Netflix forges new partnerships for measurement on its [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Binance loses up to USD$500m (~£450.5m) to hackers; a new report from Meta reveals up to a million Facebook passwords may have been stolen; and a financial report from ByteDance shows the company experienced significant [...]

GumGum, a contextual-first, global digital advertising platform, today (October 6th, 2022)announces that it has broken the USD$1bn (£891m) dollar ad spend milestone. The contextual advertising global market is projected to be a USD$335.1 bn (£291.5bn) market by 2026 and is a [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: a report from Bloomberg finds that some podcast networks are acquiring listeners via ads in mobile games that trigger automatic downloads;  brands hasten to become compliant with California's data privacy laws following Sephora's USD $1.2m [...]