In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Digital marketing intelligence platform SimilarWeb raises USD$120m (£92.1m); US Senate Democrats seek local news protections; and quarterly social media ad spend climbs by 56.4%. SimilarWeb raises USD$120m (£92.1m) Digital marketing and investment intelligence platform SimilarWeb has announced [...]

The Association for Online Publishing (AOP) showcased the digital publishing industry’s top talent in the virtual debut of its prestigious annual awards ceremony. The flagship event, organised in partnership with PubMatic, and hosted by comedian and Mash Report star Ellie Taylor, moved [...]

Publishers are having a hard time monetising their inventory right now. Despite the fact that many are drowning in traffic, the corona revenue bump has yet to materialise. Aggressive coronavirus keyword blocking by brands is contributing to a dip in [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in ad tech from around the globe. In this edition: Google pledges to pay news publishers $1bn for their content; the WFA reports a decrease in the number of companies [...]

Smart has today announced the launch of Smart Buyer Connect (SBC), the direct-first platform built for advertisers to manage deals and private marketplace (PMP) buying. The product – which forecasts and facilitates media buying in real-time – is further evidence [...]

DPG Media, a leading publisher in the Netherlands, has today announced that they have chosen to partner with Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising company, as their ad server platform of record. From 1st October, DPG Media will make their publisher business available [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Disney sells TrueX, the ad tech company it acquired as part of its purchase of 21st Century Fox, to Gimbal; a study from the Pew Research Centre finds that over a quarter of US adults [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in ad tech from around the globe. In this edition: the Australian government gives a $5m boost to struggling newswire AAP; Oracle announces that ByteDance will have no stake in [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Google is accused of anti-competitive behaviour in India after removing Paytm from its Play Store; TikTok's interim CEO calls on Facebook and Instagram to support it against a fresh ban from the US government; and [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in ad tech from around the globe. In this edition: Oracle wins the bid to become TikTok's US partner, but it's revealed that it won't be given the app's original [...]