News in brief: UK Festive Season Ad Spend Expected to Hit £10.5bn; Apple to Face First EU Fine Under DMA; UK Gov Testing AI Chatbot  UK Festive Season Ad Spend Expected to Hit £10.5bn  UK advertisers are expected to spend £10.5bn during [...]

Picnic, the leading quality media platform, recently announced the launch of its inaugural Media Quality Report, an annual report aimed at defining and measuring media quality in the digital advertising ecosystem. As part of this report, Picnic today (November 5th, [...]

News in brief: IAB Tech Lab Releases Privacy Guidelines for Public Comment; UK Ad Spend Hits £10bn in Q2 2024; US Ad Spend Continues to Climb IAB Tech Lab Releases Privacy Guidelines for Public Comment  In order to support the industry’s adoption [...]

Taboola, powers recommendations for the open web, helping people discover things they may like. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was the most read-about topic across Taboola’s network of UK publishers last month, attracting 18 million page views. A surge [...]

This week on The Stack: This Week’s Legal Action; UK Gov Cracks Down on Junk Food Ads; Today’s MadTech Daily  This week, Google won an appeal against an antitrust fine of €1.5bn (£1.26bn) from the EU. The fine was a result [...]

Michael Hanbury-Williams, recently appointed UK Managing Director at Greenbids, discusses how the ad industry's obsession with measuring carbon emissions has become a mere box-ticking exercise, and how genuine action can be taken. He considers the next steps for the industry [...]

A new 2024 Festive Insights report from Teads, the global media platform, reveals that consumers are looking forward to a better Christmas in 2024, as over four out of 10 people in the UK say they expect Christmas to be [...]

The UK may have had its first change of ruling party in 14 years, but it appears Brits are far more engaged in the race for the White House. Readership trend data from Taboola reveals Brits were more than four [...]

Prime Day this year drove a near 1,000% increase in interest in Amazon in the run-up to and during the event, new research from Taboola has shown. Taboola analysed readership figures around Amazon related media articles from across its network of [...]

This week on The Stack: Latest Industry Scrutiny from Regulators; Omnicom's Growth Declines in APAC; Today's MadTech Daily This week’s digest news saw Apple’s ‘tap to pay’ antitrust case come to a close, with the European Commission (EC) accepting a set [...]