Grace Dillon

Editor

Grace joined ExchangeWire as editor in 2020, having previously worked in copywriting, content and social media. Grace graduated from the University of York with a BA in English and Related Literature.

Articles by Grace

• Ex-PM Rudd Calls for Investigation into NewsCorp; Streaming Revenues Overtake Box Office

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  In today's ExchangeWire news digest: former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd petitions for a royal commission into NewsCorp; analysis from PwC reveals that global premium streaming revenues have overtaken worldwide box-office revenues for the first time ever; and Allegro, the [...]

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• Google Pledges $1bn to News Publishers for News Showcase; WFA Reports Fall in Paused Ad Spend

  4 years ago News

  

  In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in ad tech from around the globe. In this edition: Google pledges to pay news publishers $1bn for their content; the WFA reports a decrease in the number of companies [...]

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• Hate the Player and the Game: How Big Tech Use Their Infrastructure to Stifle Competition

  4 years ago News

  

  The dominance of the world’s biggest tech firms has become an issue that is impossible to ignore. Posing threats to innovation, competition, and even democracy, the Big Four (Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook) and their peers are under keener scrutiny [...]

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• EU Looks to Injunctions to Resolve Antitrust Cases; Havas Launches E-Commerce Offering

  4 years ago News

  

  In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the head of the EU Commission announces that the competitions authority may make more use of injunctions in order to resolve antitrust cases; Havas Media has launched a global e-commerce offering, Havas Market; and US [...]

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• US Antitrust Chair Calls on Public to Curb Big Tech; WFA Reports Drop in Paused Ad Spend

  4 years ago News

  

  In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the chair of the antitrust subcommittee in the US Congress calls on the public to help rein in Big Tech; the WFA's latest Crisis Response Tracker reports a decrease in the number of international companies [...]

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• Google Pledges $1bn to News Publishers for News Showcase; LUMA Publishes Q3 Market Report

  4 years ago News

  

  In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Google plans to spend $1bn in licensing fees to acquire news content for its Google News Showcase feature; LUMA Partners publishes its Q3 Market Report, noting signs of recovery; and Google delays imposing a 30% [...]

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• US Court Postpones TikTok Ban; Disney Sells TrueX to Gimbal

  4 years ago News

  

  In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in ad tech from around the globe. In this edition: a federal court in the US has ruled to postpone a ban of Chinese-owned video app TikTok; Disney sells TrueX, [...]

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• Transparency & Trust: The Future of Programmatic Buying

  4 years ago News

  

  Transparency and trust are not new topics of conversation in the world of programmatic advertising. However, 2020 has seen these issues return to the fore as question marks were raised over whether the industry is doing enough to provide security [...]

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• China Set to Investigate Google; Indian Start-Ups Unite to Challenge Google's Play Store

  4 years ago News

  

  In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Chinese regulators review a potential antitrust probe into Google; executives from a number of Indian start-ups discuss launching a competitor to Google's Play Store; and AT&T loses its appeal over DirecTV 'robocalls'.   China prepares antitrust suit [...]

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• Amazon Introduces Biometric Payment System; Google Makes Fresh Promises to EU Over Fitbit

  4 years ago News

  

  In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Amazon introduces contactless biometric payment system, Amazon One; Google seeks to reassure the EU Commission that its acquisition of Fitbit will not risk user privacy or harm market competition; and US TV advertising spend is [...]

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