Today on The Stack: Troubles Continue for Google; UK Ad Spend Soars; Today’s MadTech Daily Troubled times continue for Google as a French court ordered the tech titan to pay Equativ a sum of €26.5m over its anti-competitive practices in online [...]

Marketers see limitless potential in the e-commerce version of stocking candy and chewing gum by the checkout aisle.   Since the advent of GDPR in 2018, and the subsequent nosedive taken by external ad tech vendors, the walled garden model has become [...]

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 [...]

News in brief: Microsoft Accuses Google; AI Search Engine by Meta On The Cards; IAB Europe’s Retail Media Certification Programme Begins Beta Phase  Microsoft Accuses Google  In the latest of battles among big tech, Microsoft has accused Google of running ‘shadow campaigns’ [...]

We chat with Justine Roberts CBE, CEO and founder of Mumsnet, to discuss the responsibility of independent publishers, aligning mission and values with financial success, and being the first UK publisher to take legal action against OpenAI... How do you define [...]

News in brief: YouTube Expands Shopping Affiliate Programme to India; Meta to Use Reuters Content for AI Chatbot; Microsoft Expected to Report Slowest Quarterly Revenue Growth in a Year  YouTube Expands Shopping Affiliate Programme to India  Expanding the reach of its existing [...]

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 [...]

In this op-ed, Vince Niou of Skeleton Key looks at the role of the modern media planner buyer, and how it has changed as the ad tech ecosystem has evolved Having spent the majority of my career on the agency side, [...]