USA TODAY FAST Channel, programmed and operated by VideoElephant FAST Managed Services, streamed Fox First Run’s Battleground Midterms with S.E. Cupp and Bill Anderson on Monday, August 31. USA TODAY’s FAST channel was the only non-Fox-related channel to carry the [...]

In today’s Digest, we discuss Sky agreeing to a £1.6bn deal to acquire ITV’s broadcast and streaming business, Uber pausing its European Eats expansion amid its pursuit of Delivery Hero, and Alibaba Cloud capturing 40.1% of China’s AI cloud market.

Today (23rd June, 2026), Universal Ads, Comcast’s self-service advertising platform for the premium TV industry, has officially launched in the UK in partnership with Channel 4, ITV and Sky. The launch, first unveiled by the cohort at Cannes Lions 2025, [...]

New York Post Media Group (NYPMG), home of The New York Post, The California Post, Page Six, Page Six Hollywood, and Decider, is launching a new FAST channel in collaboration with VideoElephant Fast Managed Services. The deal expands VideoElephant's longstanding [...]

In today’s Digest, we discuss Fox agreeing to a USD$22bn Roku Deal to boost streaming, Pinterest adding Amazon storefront links, and e-commerce giant Coupang being fined a record sum over a data breach.

FreeWheel, a Comcast company and leading global technology platform for the streaming advertising ecosystem, and Outernet, the most visited cultural attraction in the UK with the most advanced screen technology in the world today (2nd June, 2026), announced a pioneering [...]

MarkApp has announced a strategic collaboration with VIZIO Ads, expanding access to premium Connected TV opportunities across smart TV environments. The partnership strengthens MarkApp’s ability to support advertisers, agencies, and trading partners with scalable CTV activation, improved audience reach, and stronger [...]

Silverpush announced the EMEA rollout of SilverScreen, its broadcast-quality classification layer for YouTube. SilverScreen is a solution capable of classifying channels against broadcast standards at scale, enabling advertisers and their agency partners to identify and activate TV-like YouTube inventory with [...]

Integral Ad Science (IAS) announced 'IAS Total TV', a new comprehensive suite of connected TV (CTV) solutions designed specifically to bring 'linear-like' transparency to streaming TV. IAS Total TV can provide marketers with genre, rating, language, show and programme-level data [...]

This week, advertising, streaming, and regulation converged as platforms doubled down on monetisation while facing growing scrutiny. In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss OpenAI building a tool to track ChatGPT ad conversions, UK MPs voting down under-16 social media ban [...]