Opti Digital, a premium advertising monetisation platform, has announced today (December 11th, 2025) a strategic partnership with ABC Bourse, one of the leading financial information platforms in France.  Undergoing rapid international expansion, the ad tech company continues to win over French [...]

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 [...]

Black Friday continues to dominate as a pivotal moment for both publishers and advertisers, driving significant opportunities across the digital ecosystem. Global consumer spending on Black Friday reached USD$74.4bn (£58.7bn), a 5% increase from last year, according to Salesforce. This [...]

News in brief: Brands Look to Change Agency Remuneration Models; OpenAI Considers Advertising; OpenAI Sued by Canadian Media  Brands Look to Change Agency Remuneration Models Three quarters of multinational brands are looking to change their agency remuneration model within the next three [...]

Content Ignite, the advertising technology platform which gives publishers complete control over on-page monetisation, ad technology, and ad management, has joined forces with The GoodNet, the ESG data company that connects business performance and sustainability goals. The partnership will focus on [...]

News in brief: Google’s Ad Stack Court Face-off Finalises; Google Modifies Search; AI Overviews Decreasing Publisher Traffic  Google’s Ad Stack Court Face-off Finalises Google and the US Department of Justice met in court for the final time this week to lay out [...]

Permutive, the Audience Activation Platform that brings together media owners and advertisers to reach consumers using scaled publisher signals, today (November 20th, 2024) announced that it has built a marketplace on top of Index Marketplaces, a flexible platform designed to [...]

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 [...]

Britain’s fascination with the race for the White House was laid bare last week, with the US election generating nearly twenty times the amount of interest amongst UK readers than our own Budget, data from content recommendation platform Taboola shows. Between [...]

In recent weeks, the debate around curation has been heating up. In this op-ed, Fern Potter and Rob Webster give their thoughts on what curation really offers Recently, discussions around curation have reignited debate, with many critiques missing the point entirely. [...]