Despite the gloomy financial climate, the latest IPA Bellwether report suggests a relatively promising outlook for the ad industry: in Q4 2023, marketing budgets saw their biggest growth since Q2 2014.  Just over a quarter of panelists saw total marketing budgets [...]

On today’s ExchangeWire digest: Advertisers Turning Away from Linear TV Quicker than Viewers; Australia to Further Regulate AI; Supreme Court Rejects Epic vs Apple Antitrust Case…  Advertisers are turning away from linear TV quicker than viewers are, shows WARC’s latest research [...]

On today’s ExchangeWire digest: FedEx Launches Ecommerce Platform to Compete with Amazon; Microsoft Signs 10-Year Partnership with Vodafone; OpenAI Bans Use of AI Tools for Political Campaigning...  Upping the pace in its competition against rival Amazon, FedEx has announced plans to [...]

On today’s ExchangeWire digest: Over Half of Companies Concerned about Unintentional Greenwashing; Microsoft Overtakes Apple as Most Valuable Company; Snapchat Subscribers Skyrocket with AI Features… Misleading consumers with unintentional greenwashing is a significant concern for many, with data from Ivalua indicating [...]

On today’s ExchangeWire digest: UK’s Competition & Markets Authority Outlines Upcoming Big Tech Regulation; UK Gov to Publish AI Regulation Criteria; Microsoft Introduces New AI Capabilities…  Big tech will soon be facing tougher regulation in the UK, with government plans to [...]

The industry buzz around digital audio just keeps getting louder, and it makes sense: research has shown that audio ads outperform video ads in grabbing attention and generating brand recall. In 2023, on-demand audio overtook linear audio for the first [...]

Today on the ExchangeWire Stack: UK Video Sector Grew 10% 2023; Amazon Launching Video Prime Ads at $30 CPMs; 77% of Publishers to Focus on Own Direct Channels in 2024   It has been a pretty big week in the world of [...]

As the digital advertising landscape evolves, a critical question arises: Can Google's Privacy Sandbox truly balance the competing demands of ad performance and heightened user privacy, or is this merely a pipe dream?  The death of third-party cookies, the end of [...]