News in brief: UK Festive Season Ad Spend Expected to Hit £10.5bn; Apple to Face First EU Fine Under DMA; UK Gov Testing AI Chatbot  UK Festive Season Ad Spend Expected to Hit £10.5bn  UK advertisers are expected to spend £10.5bn during [...]

In our latest quarterly wrap, head of content John Still takes a look at the events that have defined Q3 2024. What made headlines over summer? It’s hard to look anywhere other than Google’s legal wranglings as we look back at [...]

Cedara, the Carbon Intelligence Platform, has launched cutting-edge compliance tools aimed at helping media businesses streamline both regulatory and media measurement requirements, all within a unified platform. With the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) set to take effect for thousands [...]

Today’s news: Google Ad Stack Trial Wraps Up; Reuters and CNN Launch Paywalls; Europe Demands YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok to Expose Algorithm Secrets  Google’s ad stack trial has wrapped up, just three weeks after it began at the US District Court [...]

Today’s news: ASA Bans Nike and Sky Ads; TikTok Launches Search Ads Campaign; Max Streaming Arrives to APAC  The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned Sky and Nike ads for using “dark pattern” advertising tactics which intend to mislead consumers. [...]

Today’s news: YouTube’s Pause Screen Ads Roll Out to All Advertisers; FTC Denounces Social Media Giants’ Data Use; Publicis Groupe Acquires Mars United Commerce  More than a year after YouTube revealed it was testing ads which play when a user pauses [...]

There have been whispers about a reconciliation for some time, but the official announcement of an Oasis reunion tour last Tuesday saw a huge surge in interest among the British public. Readership trend data from Taboola reveals that Oasis was [...]

On today’s news digest: Barclays Launches Amazon Branded Credit Card; IAB Introduces Digital Ad Compliance Platform; Paris Olympics Sets BBC Streaming Record  Amazon is expanding into unchartered territory through its latest collaboration with Barclays with the launch of the Amazon Barclaycard. [...]

On today’s news digest: UK BVOD Ad Spend to Surpass £1 Billion in 2024; FTC to Investigate Surveillance Pricing; Grab Abandons Acquisition of Trans-cab  UK Ad spend on broadcast video on demand (BVOD) services will surpass £1bn for the first time [...]

This week on The Stack: Latest Industry Scrutiny from Regulators; Omnicom's Growth Declines in APAC; Today's MadTech Daily This week’s digest news saw Apple’s ‘tap to pay’ antitrust case come to a close, with the European Commission (EC) accepting a set [...]