The Q3 2024 IPA Bellwether Report reveals that UK companies paused marketing budget increases for the first time in 14 quarters due to uncertainty surrounding the Autumn Budget. What does the industry think?  The net balance for marketing budget revisions dropped [...]

On today’s news digest: Barclays Launches Amazon Branded Credit Card; IAB Introduces Digital Ad Compliance Platform; Paris Olympics Sets BBC Streaming Record  Amazon is expanding into unchartered territory through its latest collaboration with Barclays with the launch of the Amazon Barclaycard. [...]

Planet Earth is heating up, and the advertising industry is fanning the flames. As players in the advertising ecosystem attempt to pave the way for a more sustainable future, how far have industry efforts taken us?   The Advertising Ecosystem vs the [...]

Today, (February 29th, 2024) IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital marketing and advertising ecosystem, published the first set of recommendations for retail media digital advertising metrics and measurement standards in Europe. The recommendations are open for [...]

The new board of directors at IAB Europe, the European-level association for the digital marketing and advertising ecosystem, have designated a new chair, vice chair, and other officers.   Thomas Duhr, member of the board of the Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW), [...]

Platform monetisation leader Kevel today (July 27th, 2023) announced the formation of an industry working group to establish an OpenRTB Protocol for Retail Media, a groundbreaking update to the OpenRTB framework. The protocol will set new standards for programmatic advertising [...]

IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital advertising and marketing ecosystem, today (July 27th, 2023) released its ‘Guide to Improving Sustainable Business Decision-Making’. This initial guide has been created to assist businesses in the digital advertising ecosystem [...]

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Disney shutters its metaverse unit; the AOP takes a stand against "unscrupulous" tech vendors' use of publisher data; and Gopuff relies on rivals firms to help with deliveries. Disney closes metaverse unit Walt Disney Co. has shuttered [...]

IPA’s quarterly Bellwether Report has once again taken the temperature of the ad industry. Up against difficult economic headwinds, Q4 2022’s results show an upbeat, yet understandably cautious attitude, as we begin 2023. The report shows another quarter of marketing budget [...]

A growth slowdown, budget cuts and a downbeat outlook were the headlines from the latest IPA Bellwether report, framing an industry in a subdued mood, and continuing along the path laid out in Q2. The report was one of small adjustments [...]