Mathew Broughton

Research Lead
Mat Broughton joined the ExchangeWire team in March 2019 as Editor. After a brief stint as editor at ExchangeWire's sister publication, TheGamingEconomy, Mat is now Research Lead at ExchangeWire, running creation, analysis and report production of ExchangeWire's suite of research products. Before joining the company he worked as a project manager working within the telecoms and travel marketing industries. Mat graduated from the University of Liverpool with an honours degree in Biological Sciences.Articles by Mathew
CTV & Retail Media: Examining the Walmart-Vizio Acquisition
CTV and retail media - two of the key pillars for 2024 across the media, marketing, and e-commerce industries. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that the news that Walmart is set to buy TV manufacturer Vizio for a hefty USD$2.3bn (£1.8bn) [...]
Predictions 2024: Social
From Meta launching an ad-free subscription service as a workaround to European data laws, to Elon Musk’s continued torrent of vitriol against advertisers on X, 2023 certainly was not a dull year in the sphere of social media. But what [...]
Predictions 2024: OOH & DOOH
In this installment of our Predictions 2024 series, we step outside into the world of out-of-home (OOH) and digital out-of-home (DOOH). A segment of the industry in recovery from the days of the coronavirus pandemic, will 2024 see DOOH come to [...]
Google paid USD$26bn for default search engine status; Buzzfeed in talks to sell Complex Networks
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 [...]
Focused Financials Q2 2023: Retail Media
Each and every quarter, fans of numbers and nosy corporate examinations alike are treated to a wealth of data, as public companies open their accountancy doors and tell us how they performed over the previous three months. In this article, ExchangeWire [...]
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