This week on the ExchangeWire Stack: The Latest Ad Spend Figures; Big Tech Acquisition Terminations and Profit Rises   This week’s digest news featured many stats and figures. The latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report released its forecast that UK ad spend is [...]

On today’s ExchangeWire digest: Retail Media Grows its Share of Total US Ad Spend; Amazon & iRobot Terminate Acquisition Agreement; China Approves 14 Large Language Models Retail media has increased its share of total US ad spend, growing faster than either [...]

MiQ announced the acquisition of French media governance and data quality company, Grasp. This marks MiQ’s third significant financial investment to date, as part of its long-standing commitment to making the digital advertising ecosystem and experience better for all advertisers. While [...]

Azerion announces today (October 16th, 2023) the completed acquisition of Hawk, a French-based digital advertising technology platform with offices also in the UK and Germany. The companies will provide advertisers and agencies easy access to large audiences in emerging areas [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Google Ads opens access to its new Demand Gen tool; California's governor signs the Delete Act, allowing citizens to ask brokers to delete their data; and Microsoft-Activision is approved in the UK. Google Ads begins roll [...]

This week: Lazada woos businesses affected by Indonesia's social commerce ban, CMA gives green light to Microsoft-Activision Blizzard... Lazada waives fees for businesses in Indonesia Alibaba-owned Lazada is wooing sellers impacted by Indonesia’s ban on social commerce... Microsoft-Activision approved in UK The UK's Competition and Markets [...]

This week: the UK's competition watchdog softens its stance on Microsoft-Activision, Amazon commits billions to Anthropic... A ray of hope came for Microsoft this week, when the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said there are reasonable grounds to approve [...]

Expandi Group, the largest EMEA B2B martech and ad tech provider, today (September 26th, 2023) announced the purchase of B2B account-based marketing (ABM) platform Jabmo and all its marketing assets, including the well-known brand.  With offices in Europe and the US, [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the Competition and Markets Authority acknowledges there are grounds to clear Microsoft's planned acquisition of Activision; TikTok Shop faces regulatory headwinds in Indonesia; and Amazon appears set to take adverts to Prime. CMA says there are "reasonable [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: the US begins a landmark antitrust case against Google; regulators in the EU ask Microsoft competitors if they are impacted by efforts to approve its Activision Blizzard deal in the UK; and Adobe, Nvidia, and [...]