News in brief: OOH Revenue Grows 7.7%; Apple and Google Restore TikTok to US App Stores; UK Gov Partners with Anthropic AI  OOH Revenue Grows 7.7% Out of home (OOH) revenue for 2024 saw growth of 7.7% year-on-year, achieving its highest ever [...]

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: Meta and Amazon Distance Themselves from DEI; Venu Sports Streaming Cancelled; Apple UK Antitrust Trial Begins Meta and Amazon Distance Themselves from DEI Meta has decided to terminate its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes, reports Axios. A memo [...]

News in brief: Skyscanner Launches Advertising Platform; Over 1 Billion Hours of YouTube Content Streamed Daily on TV; Apple Rolls Out ChatGPT Integration   Skyscanner Launches Advertising Platform Skyscanner is the latest company to announce the launch of an advertising platform. With the [...]

News in brief: Walmart’s Ad Business Sees 28% Growth; Apple Starts Selling News Ads; X Partners with PubMatic  Walmart’s Ad Business Sees 28% Growth Walmart has reported a strong revenue growth for Q3, increasing 5.5% to a total of USD$169.6bn (£134bn). The [...]

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 [...]

Today’s news: Ads Arrive to Google’s AI Overviews; OpenAI Raises $6.6bn in Funding; Meta and Apple Reject EU’s AI Pact  Ads are finally arriving to Google’s AI Overviews, the tech giant announced in a blog post last week. The feature was [...]

Today’s news: Apple Allows Alternative App Stores in EU; Spotify Strives to Grow Video Catalogue; OpenAI Launches New Model  Thanks to the Digital Markets Act, Apple will be allowing third-party app stores on iPads within the EU from today (16th September). [...]

Today’s news: EU Faces Off Against Apple and Google; Online Overtakes TV as News Source in UK; Updates on Google vs DOJ Trial   While Google’s ad stack case against the DOJ is now in full swing, news has broken that the [...]

On today’s news digest: Google Expands AI Overviews to More Regions; Paramount to Cut 15% of Workforce; AltStore Launches on iOS for EU Users  As most will likely have seen, the AI Overview feature has been added for UK users of [...]