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: Sky Faces Bill for Underpaying Ad Partners; Meta Digital Ad Growth Slows; Gov Funding for UK Creative Industries Confirmed  Sky Faces Bill for Underpaying Ad Partners Sky is facing a bill of hundreds of millions of pounds following a [...]

News in brief: Google ordered to pay €26.5m in damages to Equativ over anti-competitive behaviour; Meta moves into the AI podcast game; Elon Musk's X set to miss political advertising revenue targets Google Fined for Anti-Competitive Practices in Online Advertising The Paris [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This week on The Stack: Pressure Mounts on Google; Meta Improves DMA Compliance; Today’s MadTech Daily  This week our ATS London event took place. From discussions about retail media to curation, speakers imparted insights about the latest industry hot topics. Of [...]

Today’s news: Fubo Launches New CTV Ad Format; Roku Enters UK Retail Media Partnership; Meta’s Latest EU Compliance Updates  Leading sports streaming platform Fubo has launched a new CTV ad format for branded video content – The Triple Play – bringing [...]

This week on The Stack: Industry Draws Conclusions on Privacy Sandbox; Meta In Breach of DMA; Today's MadTech Daily Podcast   Analyses regarding Privacy Sandbox made quite a splash in our digest news this week. The IAB Tech Lab released its [...]

On today’s news digest: Meta Under EU Microscope; Facebook Considering Blocking News Content in AUS; YouTube Seeks AI Music Deals with Record Labels  Last week, the European Commission informed Apple that it was the first company found to be in breach [...]

On today’s news digest: EU Confirms Apple in Breach of DMA; Target Teams Up with Shopify; Apple and Meta Discuss Partnership Wrapping up some questions surrounding the European Commission’s (EC) investigation into Apple over anticompetitive practices, Brussels has informed the tech [...]