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• From AI Travel Agents to Creator Technology: Exploring 2026’s Ad Tech Trends 

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  We cover the latest event held by AdTech Connect, an industry initiative created with the goal of informing and creating opportunities for the next generation of ad tech professionals.    With five events now under its belt, the AdTech Connect initiative is [...]

• Digest: ChatGPT Shows Ads to Logged-Out Users; Norway and Turkey Progress with Plans for Social Media Bans; Meta Launches Instants App

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  In today’s Digest, we discuss ChatGPT beginning to show ads to logged-out users, and Norway planning an under-16 social media ban as Turkey passes an under-15 ban. We also look at Meta launching an Instagram spinoff app, ‘Instants’.

• ExchangeWire's Ad Tech Quiz: ChatGPT Ads, Marketing Spend, and Social Media Use

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  In this ExchangeWire ad tech quiz, John Still and Lindsay Rowntree take a guess at AI ads, marketing category spend, and UK social media use.

• From Insight to Action: Rethinking Media Planning in the Age of AI Agents

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  Caroline Sajas, SVP sales at Locala, examines the persistent gap between planning and activation in advertising, and why the industry's fixation on automation is missing the bigger opportunity

• The Stack: Big Tech Reckoning 

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  This week, industry players faced mounting legal pressure, sweeping job cuts, and major leadership shifts, signalling a period of deep structural change across the industry. In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover WBD shareholders approving Paramount–Skydance deal , WPP Consolidates Commerce [...]

• 'Influence isn’t driven by how loud you are, but by how available you are.': Omicom Media Singapore’s Chloe Neo and Daniel Henriksen

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  Charlotte Mceleny chats to Omnicom Media Singapore’s Chloe Neo and Daniel Henriksen about their new growth model and the agency landscape…

• Digest: DSP Bedrock Platform Pilots Index Exchange's Index Cloud; Meta Sued Over Scam Ads; Radiocentre Urges MPs to Reject BBC Ads 

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  In today’s Digest, we discuss Bedrock Platform piloting Index Exchange’s new Index Cloud,  the Consumer Federation of America suing Meta Platforms over alleged scam advertising practices, and Radiocentre urging MPs to reject advertising on BBC platforms. 

• The Measurement Blind Spot

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  In her first feature for ExchangeWire, our new columnist Jess Treasure, head of strategy at Bountiful Cow, looks at how most media plans are shaped by what measurement makes easiest, and why advantage lies in what others overlook…

• Digest: California Lawsuit Accuses Amazon of Price Fixing; Singapore Proposes Global Standard for Gen AI Testing; Apple Names Ternus CEO Successor 

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  In today’s Digest, we cover California filing a price-fixing legal claim against Amazon, Singapore proposing a global standard for generative AI testing, and Apple naming John Ternus as CEO successor to Tim Cook.

• Ingenuity, Originality, Thoughtful Execution, and Cultural Relevance: What The Wires Judges are Looking For

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  We reveal the last wave of individuals who will be judging The Wires 2026. What do they believe makes a winning entry?  As we advance through Q2, this year's The Wires ceremony edges closer. Our judges, chosen from a selection of experts [...]