Today (13th February, 2025), Zefr announced the expansion of its pre-impression content avoidance controls on Meta, which allows advertisers to refine their content adjacencies while maintaining scale across their Meta activities, with full transparency into where their ads were served. [...]

News in brief: WHSmith to Launch Retail Media Ad Network; Netflix Exceeds Ad Revenue Targets; Users Boycott Meta Platforms  WHSmith to Launch Retail Media Ad Network WHSmith is launching a retail media business: it will combine both in-store and digital out–of-home media [...]

What could Meta’s decision to scrap fact-checking on its social media platforms mean for the ad industry? We look at the changes announced by Meta, examining how its brand safety could be impacted and how this could affect advertisers and [...]

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 [...]

This week on The Stack: Meta to End Fact-Checking While X’s Content Moderation Comes Under Further Scrutiny; WWE’s Netflix Debut; Japan Announces Action Against Google    Meta shocked many this week by announcing the end of fact-checking for its social media platforms, [...]

News in brief: Meta to End Third-Party Fact-Checking Program; Singapore Considers Social Media Age Restrictions; Disney to Combine Hulu + Live TV with FuboTV  Meta to End Third-Party Fact-Checking Program   Meta has announced it will be ending its third-party fact-checking program, instead [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]