In today's ExchangeWire news digest: YouTube acquire Indian social commerce startup Simsim; Tencent are set to buy UK games developer Sumo Group; and Xiaomi have overtaken Apple to become the second-largest smartphone maker.   YouTube acquire Simsim YouTube have acquired Indian social commerce [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Google are fined by the French Competition Authority for allegedly violating orders to negotiate payment deals with news publishers; fintech startup Toqio raise USD $9.4m in a seed funding round; and Apple face criticism for [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in ad tech from around the globe. In this edition: Twitter launch a new consumer-focused subscription service called “Twitter Blue”; Apple announce “Private Relay”, a feature that will obstruct fingerprinting [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Apple announce "Private Relay", a feature that will obstruct fingerprinting by preventing advertisers from accessing consumers' IP addresses; Microsoft will shut down Internet Explorer in mid-June 2022; and Snap ramp-up efforts to make Snapchat an [...]

Facebook, Amazon and Google are unbeatable; just go and work for them. This is what the evolved part of your brain tells you on a daily basis. And, to a certain extent, it’s not wrong given how many senior ad [...]

In this article, Asher Gordon, head of media at Tug explores how the industry is preparing for the post-cookie era, and sets out what brands can do to ensure that they're ready for this monumental infrastructural shift. After months of hype, [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Gray Television acquire 17 of Meredith's TV stations as the media firm focus on their publishing and digital assets businesses; Berlin Brands Group look for American sellers to bring to the European market; and Facebook [...]

Advertising technology has always been somewhat difficult to explain to those not in the industry. “What do you really do? What the heck is a programmatic?” Questions we have all had to field. The last couple of months will surely [...]

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in ad tech from around the globe. In this edition: Colorado becomes the latest US state to consider implementing a new data privacy law; Apple have begun blocking apps that [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Apple have begun rejecting apps who don't comply with their new ATT privacy framework; Spotify acquire Betty Labs, the tech company behind live audio app Locker Room; and ViacomCBS put $3bn worth of shares up [...]