News in brief: Amazon’s Ad Business Earns $17bn in Q4; UK Orders Access to Apple Users’ Encrypted Accounts; Netflix Hikes UK Subscription Prices  Amazon’s Ad Business Earns $17bn in Q4  Amazon’s advertising services earned USD$17.3bn (£13.9bn) in the final quarter of last [...]

News in brief: WHSmith to Launch Retail Media Ad Network; Netflix Exceeds Ad Revenue Targets; Users Boycott Meta Platforms  WHSmith to Launch Retail Media Ad Network WHSmith is launching a retail media business: it will combine both in-store and digital out–of-home media [...]

This week on The Stack: M&A takes off; Google, Meta and Apple privacy woes; Today’s MadTech Daily  It's been a big week for ad tech M&A, with Viant acquiring IRIS.TV, Alliant being sold to Inverness Graham, MediaSense buying R3 and Azerion [...]

News in brief: The Trade Desk posts strong Q3; Youtube enhances creator controls: Spark Foundry release 'Insights Accelerated' report. The Trade Desk posts strong Q3 The Trade Desk reported a strong Q3, with revenue reaching $628 million—surpassing analyst expectations of $619.85 million [...]

Curation is causing much discussion across the industry at the moment, and it's one of our key pillars for Industry Review 2025. Want to have your say? Some believe it has the potential to become a one-size-fits-all solution for ad targeting. [...]

Today’s news: PayPal Launches Ad Business; Meta Expands Ad Placement Controls and Brings AI Chatbot to UK; Privacy Certification for Ad Tech In The Works PayPal has launched an ad business, PayPal Ads, which will allow advertisers to tap into their [...]

The ‘trial of the century’ for ad tech is underway. We’ll be wrapping up the events from the courtroom every Friday until the trial ends. In the second week of the USA v Google antitrust trial, significant developments shed further light [...]

The ‘trial of the century’ for ad tech is underway. We’ll be wrapping up the events from the courtroom every Friday until the trial ends. As the Google v DoJ trial unfolds, Google’s alleged monopolistic control over the ad market is [...]

Yelp is taking Google on, Telegram falls foul of EU regulators, and retail media spend growing.. Yelp is taking on Google in a legal showdown. Yelp is suing Google, claiming the tech giant uses its dominance in web searches to push [...]

This week on The Stack: Ad Networks on the Rise; UK Ad Spend to Grow 4.9%; The Latest News in Today’s MadTech Daily Podcast  Ad networks, more and more by the week: firstly, Google announced the launch of Google TV network [...]