News in brief: Viant Technology acquires IRIS.TV, The Guardian to halt X content posting, and Alliant sold to private equity. Viant Acquires IRIS.TV California-based programmatic advertising platform Viant Technology has announced the acquisition of CTV content data platform IRIS.TV for an undisclosed [...]

OpenX Technologies, Inc., one of the world’s leading omnichannel supply-side platforms, today (November 12th, 2024) announced the promotion of Julie Rooney to chief privacy officer and deputy general counsel. This strategic promotion underscores OpenX’s continued commitment to setting the standard [...]

In this opinion piece, Rafael Aquino, head of ad tech and media activation at L’Oréal, discusses how advertisers can improve trust in data ownership, transparency and safety. He looks at cases for both traditional and new privacy-first solutions, investigating how [...]

Audigent, the leading data activation, curation, and identity platform, announced that it has been selected to serve as an initial launch partner for Google Ad Manager’s curation feature.  This new capability from Google’s SSP provides advertisers with a powerful tool to [...]

In our latest quarterly wrap, head of content John Still takes a look at the events that have defined Q3 2024. What made headlines over summer? It’s hard to look anywhere other than Google’s legal wranglings as we look back at [...]

Today’s news: Meta vs Germany; Guardian moves into affiliate advertising; 'China's Instagram' soaring In a multi-year antitrust challenge in Germany, Meta has been ordered by the Bundeskartellamt to limit data collection and linking to user accounts without consent. This decision comes [...]

By offering its customers the option of using First-id as the key to reconciling their first-party data, Weborama is confirming its strategy of interoperability with alternative solutions, and reinforcing its position as a robust and innovative player in an advertising [...]

Audigent, the leading data activation, curation, and identity platform, today (October 8th, 2024) announced that it has hired Pierce Cook-Anderson as executive vice president and general manager, EMEA. In this newly created role, Cook-Anderson will oversee all of Audigent’s business [...]

Lotame, the global technology company that makes customer data smarter, faster, and easier to use for digital marketers, released findings from ‘The State of Data Collaboration: A Global Perspective’, a report on marketer and agency data challenges and the solutions [...]

The Wires 2024 shortlist is officially out. There's a lot of competition, and standards have been incredibly high - read on to discover who's made the cut... ExchangeWire's The Wires Awards has become a hallmark event in the ad tech industry. [...]