IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital marketing and advertising ecosystem, today (7th July, 2026) revealed the findings of its 2025 AdEx Benchmark Study at a dedicated event in London.  The report reveals that European digital advertising spend [...]

This week, AI continued to redefine how consumers discover content and products, while regulators across Europe and the UK stepped up efforts to reshape the digital marketplace. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Sony’s plan to end PlayStation disc production [...]

In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover the podcast industry being worth more than previously estimated, and Channel 4 adding new partners to its ad tech stack. 

New research from B2B agency Ledger Bennett, part of Havas Media Network, and AI advertising and orchestration platform StackAdapt reveals widespread dissatisfaction with the modern B2B RFP process, with 77% of marketers saying AI-related questions are not being asked rigorously [...]

In his latest column, Alex Lamaro-McCrindle of Miroma Founders Network, turns an old proverb on its head as he looks at the hidden funnel, and the unseen user journey...

Trainline has partnered with Lumen Research, the global attention technology company, to measure how advertising across the Trainline app performs against wider media benchmarks. The results show that Trainline offers brands a high-attention, high-impact environment that significantly outperforms standard mobile [...]

Picnic today (20th May, 2026) names the PIQ10 2026: the UK's top publishers for advertising quality, ranked independently by PIQ, Picnic's signal-led inventory intelligence platform. With nearly half of all domains now falling below PIQ's quality threshold, these are the [...]

Taboola, a global leader in delivering performance at scale for advertisers, today (13th May, 2026) announced new research highlighting growing advertiser adoption of AI-powered solutions and increasing interest in applying these capabilities beyond walled gardens. While agentic AI has driven strong [...]

DoubleVerify, the leading software platform to verify media quality, optimise ad performance and prove campaign outcomes, released its 2026 Global Insights report, Must-CTV: Streaming’s Shift From Promise to Performance.  The insights are based on proprietary DV measurement data spanning billions of [...]

Pubstack, the supply intelligence platform for publishers, has released its State of Programmatic Q1 2026 EU5 Benchmark, revealing a highly fragmented European programmatic market in which UK publishers faced significant volume pressure, while price per impression remained resilient. The benchmark compares [...]