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• The Stack: Ad Industry Shakeups and Climate Reckonings

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  This week marked significant changes in the evolving relationship between advertising and climate responsibility. In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Google being hit in a €4.1bn Android fine battle, Microsoft considering abandoning high-stakes negotiations with OpenAI, OpenAI ending work with [...]

• Cannes Lions 2025: Recapping the Biggest Industry Moves on la Croisette 

  7 months ago News

  

  We look at some of the biggest announcements from Cannes Lions this year, focusing on DSP tie-ups and partnerships in the agency world.  It’s been a scorching week, the sun shining down and the thermometers hitting 30° – and that’s just in [...]

• Digest: Netflix Inks Linear TV Deal with TF1; Trump to Delay TikTok Ban for a Third Time; CMA Throws Google a Lifeline 

  7 months ago News

  

  In today’s Digest, we discuss Netflix inking a linear TV deal with TF1, Trump delaying the TikTok ban for a third time, TikTok Shop launching in Japan, and the CMA tossing Google’s Privacy Sandbox a lifeline. Netflix Inks Linear TV Deal [...]

• WPP Media’s Kate Scott-Dawkins on the User-Generated Content Boom, the Evolution of Search, and the Rise of Retail Media 

  7 months ago Podcast

  

  In this MadTech Podcast Special, ExchangeWire editor Aimee Newell Tarín is joined by Kate Scott-Dawkins, president, business intelligence, at WPP Media, to explore key topics from the company’s latest global advertising forecast revealed on 10th June.  She expands on three key [...]

• Finding Ad Tech’s North Star in the AI Era

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  Although AI is reshaping the industry, why does is still not feel like we are living in the future? Shirley Marschall explores when the real future of ad tech will arrive. Gen AI is old news. AI agents are the [...]

• Digest: WhatsApp to Introduce Ads; Sainsbury’s to Launch AI-Powered Retail Media Platform; Disney Adds Amazon to DRAX

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  In today’s Digest, we cover WhatsApp introducing ads, Sainsbury’s launching an AI-powered retail media platform, Disney adding Amazon to DRAX, and Ad Net Zero expanding emissions standards across media channels. WhatsApp to Introduce Ads  WhatsApp is preparing to introduce ads on its [...]

• Digest: UK Broadcasters to Launch Self-Serve TV Ad Marketplace; Roku & Amazon Deal Targets 80% of US CTV Audience

  7 months ago News

  

  In today’s Digest, we cover UK broadcasters launching a self-serve TV ad marketplace, Roku and Amazon striking a deal to target 80% of the US CTV audience as well as Google cutting ties with Scale AI after Meta’s investment, and [...]

• Precision in the Age of Identity: Redefining Audience Curation

  7 months ago News

  

  Amir Sharer, CEO, BRAVE, and Tamir Shub, VP of Business Development, IntentIQ join ExchangeWire to discuss how audience curation is evolving into a foundational element of programmatic As the post-cookie era unfolds and signal fragmentation becomes the norm, curation has evolved [...]

• Axis Joins IAB Europe’s Transparency & Consent Framework

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  Axis is proud to announce its approval as the new vendor in IAB Europe’s Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) v2.2, reinforcing its commitment to data privacy, user choice, and industry best practices. Launched in April 2018, the TCF is a cross-industry [...]

• The AI Monetisation Dilemma: Beyond Keywords and Clicks

  7 months ago News

  

  In this article, Aaron Simpson, founder, Kindred, details how AI systems can be used effectively for monetisation, without compromising user experience. As AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Meta AI evolve into full-fledged consumer assistants, they face a fundamental problem: how [...]