On today’s news digest: BeReal Acquired for €500m; Global Ad Spend to Rise 7.8%; Paramount and Skydance Merger Off the Table  BeReal, the Paris-based photo sharing app which promotes authenticity on the platform, has been acquired by French video game maker, [...]

Conscious Media, the sustainable digital media partner for brands in the MENA region, announced an exclusive collaboration with Greenbids, a pioneering tech company established in 2022. Greenbids has developed cutting-edge technology leveraging machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to [...]

On today’s news digest: Big Tech Regulation Tightens in APAC; Social Video Spend Growing; Reddit Rolls Out New Public Data Policy  The regulation of big tech is tightening in several countries in the APAC region. Japan, South Korea and Australia are [...]

On today’s news digest: Social Video to Grow 16% in 2024; UK Watchdog to Investigate Amazon and Microsoft’s AI Relationships; Meta’s Ad Tracking Under EU Scrutiny  Total digital video ad spend is expected to grow 16% this year, according to IAB’s [...]

Despite a decrease in main media advertising, budget growth remained strong in Q1 2024. The industry outlook is positive, according to the latest IPA Bellwether Report. We asked experts from across the marketing sector for their assessments.  The UK’s total marketing [...]

We’re now one quarter in from Google removing tracking cookies from 1% of Chrome browsers, (around 300 million users) having cookies removed, and depreciation is set to continue steadily until autumn 2024. In that time, Google’s Privacy Sandbox, the final phase [...]

On today’s news digest: The European Commission to Investigate Alphabet, Apple, and Meta for DMA Non-Compliance; Spotify Testing Video Learning Courses; 2024 Political Ad Spend to Nearly Triple 2016 Spend  Under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission (EC) has [...]

Hypercasual to hardcore, the gaming market is experiencing explosive growth. We take a look at what this means for in-game advertising. Gaming is estimated to reach an overall value of $300bn (~£237bn) globally before the decade is out. In the US [...]

This week on the ExchangeWire Stack: Retail Media Sees Significant Growth; Audio Makes a Splash in AUS Amid Slowed Ad Spend; US Agencies See Falling Revenues  A forecast this week found that retail media is the fastest growing form of ad [...]

On today’s ExchangeWire digest: Retail Media is Fastest Growing Form of Ad Spend; Microsoft’s Deal with Mistral AI Faces EU Scrutiny; Investors Push Apple for AI Transparency  Retail media is expected to make up one-fifth of worldwide digital ad spend in [...]