News in brief: Amazon Ads Improves Transparency and Reporting; YouTube to Introduce Another Paid-Tier; OpenAI Surpasses 400 Million Weekly Users  Amazon Ads Improves Transparency and Reporting Amazon intends to improve its ad offering’s transparency tools, reports Digiday. Updates to the service will [...]

Yahoo DSP announced it is the first demand side platform (DSP) to adopt IAB Tech Lab's standardised Data Transparency Labels. Designed to bring clarity to the data marketplace, these labels follow a "Nutrition Label" format, providing marketers, agencies, and data [...]

What will 2025 look like for platforms? We look at predictions from experts across the ad tech industry.  Platforms are growing in popularity for advertisers, with many risks from the open web (such as having ads displayed on made-for-advertising sites) becoming [...]

In recent weeks, the debate around curation has been heating up. In this op-ed, Fern Potter and Rob Webster give their thoughts on what curation really offers Recently, discussions around curation have reignited debate, with many critiques missing the point entirely. [...]

In this opinion piece, Rafael Aquino discusses how advertisers can improve trust in data ownership, transparency and safety. He looks at cases for both traditional and new privacy-first solutions, investigating how we can truly build a privacy-first world. Before I [...]

TeqBlaze, an expert in programmatic solutions development since 2014, announced the launch of the SPO Toolkit—a supply path analyser designed to enhance transparency, efficiency, and performance within the ad supply chain. This new tool empowers ad tech companies to make [...]

Pixalate, the global market-leading ad fraud protection, privacy, and compliance analytics platform, released the Website Publisher Trust Indexes, a global approach to quality measurement and monthly rankings of the world’s websites, designed to bring unprecedented transparency to the open programmatic [...]

Virtual Minds, operator of the leading European full-stack technology range for the digital advertising market, is launching environmentally friendly, CO2-measured, and reduced programmatic advertising. To this end, the programmatic omnichannel advertising specialist has now entered into a partnership with Cedara, [...]

Zefr, a global leader in brand suitability targeting and measurement, has announced the expansion of its AI-Powered Brand Safety and Suitability Verification solution on YouTube to include reporting for Zefr's industry-aligned misinformation category.  Zefr's Brand Safety & Suitability Reporting on YouTube [...]

PubMatic, an independent technology company delivering digital advertising’s supply chain of the future, today (September 16th, 2024) announced the launch of a new collaborative approach to supply path optimisation (SPO) for global healthcare company, Haleon.   PubMatic has been selected by Haleon [...]