On today’s ExchangeWire digest: Retail Media is Fastest Growing Form of Ad Spend; Microsoft’s Deal with Mistral AI Faces EU Scrutiny; Investors Push Apple for AI Transparency  Retail media is expected to make up one-fifth of worldwide digital ad spend in [...]

Nexta.io, a leading ad tech company headquartered in Denmark, is pleased to announce the appointment of Frederik Birk as the head of its retail media division. In this pivotal role, Frederik will lead Nexta.io's retail media initiatives in the Nordics [...]

On today’s ExchangeWire digest: Retail Media Grows its Share of Total US Ad Spend; Amazon & iRobot Terminate Acquisition Agreement; China Approves 14 Large Language Models Retail media has increased its share of total US ad spend, growing faster than either [...]

IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital advertising and marketing ecosystem, has published the first version of its Pan-European Retailer Digital Advertising Capability Map. This is the first Map of its kind produced by an industry association [...]

DoubleVerify (“DV”), a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics, today (December 7th, 2023) released its state of retail media report, “The Rise of Retail Media: What to Expect in 2024”, surveying over 400 advertisers and agency [...]

Nexta, a leading provider of Ad tech solutions to scale personalised advertising, today (December 7th, 2023) announced the launch of its new retail media solution.  With  Nexta, retailers can offer targeted display campaigns at scale by utilising Nexta’s three-step self-service platform, [...]

Zitcha and Broadsign have teamed up to integrate the Broadsign out-of-home (OOH) advertising platform with Zitcha’s retail media platform. The collaboration empowers retailers to maximise and monetise in-store digital display networks and enables advertising partners to easily view and book [...]

In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Google paid USD$26.3bn (£21.7bn) for default search engine status in 2021; Omnicom acquires Flywheel for USD$835m (£688m); and Buzzfeed in advanced talks to sell Complex Networks. Google paid USD$26bn for default search engine status Google paid USD$26.3bn [...]

Ciaran O'Kane looks on the bright side, and dives into the eight areas of focus that give adland reasons to be cheerful. The title of this post might suggest I am looking to ape Marc Anderseen’s verbose libertarian essay on why [...]

 LiveRamp, the leading data collaboration platform, today announced a partnership with one of the UK’s largest consumer co-operatives, Co-op, to turbocharge relevancy for members and brands in its first-party marketing and retail media offering. Using LiveRamp’s data collaboration platform, Co-op will be [...]