This week, AI continued to reshape shopping, advertising and data management, while regulators and technology companies clashed over privacy, platform responsibility and the future of digital competition. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Netflix expanding its ad measurement capabilities, Spotify [...]

In today’s digest: Publicis reaches settlement with the FTC over its planned LiveRamp acquisition, a New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $25bn (£19bn) in penalties over misleading users on privacy, and retail media firm Kevel raises $52m (£19bn) and [...]

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia & DUBAI, UAE – Panda Retail, one of Saudi Arabia’s largest grocery retailers, partners with Spike Media Saudi, GoWit's strategic partner in Saudi Arabia operating locally as GoSpike, to accelerate its digital media transformation in the Kingdom. Through the strategic partnership between Spike [...]

IAB Europe has announced today (7th October, 2026), that Moloco has become the first Ad Tech company to successfully achieve certification under its Retail Media Certification Programme, marking a significant expansion of the initiative beyond retailers and Retail Media Networks.

Retail media technology provider Broadsign and in-store media integrator IUF announced (6th October, 2026) a collaboration with UK retailer, Cotswold Outdoor Group, to expand its retail media network (RMN) with a scalable in-store advertising infrastructure. The upgrade provides a unified workflow that streamlines media planning, management, [...]

IAB Europe has today (17th September, 2026 ) opened two new Commerce Media measurement standards documents for public comment. The documents advance that work by bringing greater consistency and transparency to measurement across in-store Retail Media and the growing Travel [...]

In today’s Digest, we discuss IPA data showing Brits increasingly consuming commercial media alone, particularly among younger audiences, a new ISBA study putting UK retail media networks under the microscope, and Australia proposing a law that would let users switch [...]

It’s summer holiday season, and Shirley Marschall is looking at AI and the paradox of choice…

IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital advertising ecosystem, has announced that Nectar360, the retail media, loyalty, and insights business of the Sainsbury’s Group, has successfully achieved certification under its Retail Media Certification Programme, following an independent [...]