In her latest feature, Shirley Marschall turns her attention to retail media. Is this the future of commerce? How can the independents compete with the walled gardens? And, ultimately, is the retail media boom sustainable? The retail media gold rush is [...]

This week, we recap major ad business moves, platform updates, and market trends shaping the industry. In today’s MadTech Daily, we look at TikTok bidders, tariffs on production hubs, Clear Channel Europe-North’s acquisition and Meta’s multi-year partnership with UFC. PayPal is [...]

Today's digest discuses the launch of PayPal's UK Ad business, WARC's updated ad spend forecast, OpenAI's funding, and removal of diversity references from WPP's annual report. PayPal to Launch UK Ad Business in July  PayPal will be launching its ad business [...]

Yahoo DSP has announced an expansion of its partnership with LiveRamp, the leading data collaboration partner, to improve addressability across the advertising ecosystem in EMEA. With this expansion, publishers using LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) can now achieve incremental advertising [...]

News in brief: Consumers Shift Spend to Align with Values; Nine in Ten Shoppers Want Omnichannel Experiences; Marketers to Increase Budgets  Consumers Shift Spend to Align with Values With Trump back in the White House, politics are the cause of many US [...]

We sat down with Josh Barnett, MD of LAMP at Lumen, to delve into attention, with a focus on how the metric can help advertisers cut costs while increasing ROI. He expands on how attention metrics have transformed the advertising [...]

In this interview, we sat down with Michael Wamberg, head of AI at Nexta, to discuss how marketers can boost ROAS (return on ad spend) in retail media. He expands on the benefits of self-service ad management, as well as [...]

News in brief: UK Ad Spend Rose 10% in Q3 2024; Tables Turn as OpenAI Accuses DeepSeek of Property Theft; Amazon and Microsoft face Cloud Services Probes   UK Ad Spend Rose 10% in Q3 2024;  UK Ad Spend rose 9.7% in the [...]

In light of the insights revealed by the latest IPA Bellwether Report, what should marketers bear in mind as they lean into 2025? We asked experts from across the ad tech industry.  Rewinding to the final quarter of last year, the [...]

News in brief: Global Ad Spend to Surpass $1tn in 2024; TikTok Shop Launches in Spain; European Regulators Examine Google and Meta’s Ad Partnership  Global Ad Spend to Surpass $1tn in 2024 Global ad spend is set to rise by 9.5% in [...]