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Sillicon valley bigwigs are getting into SuperPACS; turns out, shaming AI companies sorta works; and UK publishers are going “consent or pay.”

The EU is preparing charges against Alphabet for breaching the Digital Markets Act. Plus: Meta’s ad platform has been quite buggy lately.

MAGNA raised its global ad spend forecast, predicting 10% growth this year to $927 billion. Plus: TikTok homes in on AI-generated creative.

In today’s newsletter: Amazon’s DSP doesn’t compare to Google’s and TTD’s; US ad spend looks strong this year; European Commission will investigate Google, Apple and Meta under the EU’s DMA.

In today’s newsletter: Microsoft Edge debuts its Ad Selection API, a PAAPI competitor; the EU’s DMA is live; and OhHello aims to help ad industry employees network.

Crunchtime The EU’s Digital Markets Act has teeth – and now it’s biting, TechCrunch reports. The DMA regulates anti-competitive practices within “gatekeeper platforms” that have an annual turnover of at least 7.5 billion euros. Meta, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and ByteDance all tick that box. Gatekeepers have until March to ensure their operations in the EU […]

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Point Of No Return Amazon set the bar with its liberal refund policy – it’s quick to credit consumers for missing or unsatisfactory items – and one- or two-day shipping. Matching Amazon’s standards is a brutally expensive challenge for retailers, who must […]

The digitization of advertising unleashed a torrent of easily measurable statistics for marketers to measure performance. These KPIs have their place in marketing strategy. But digital marketing has become too focused on proxy KPIs in lieu of the metric that matters most: revenue, writes Michael Morris, co-founder of Hyperlocology.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Up Anchor Podcast advertising is in growth-stage purgatory. Consumption numbers are on the up-and-up … but monetization hasn’t followed. Most podcasts were originally distributed across platforms in a centralized way, so there was a strong proposition for ad tech that could serve campaigns across […]

The European Parliament adopted the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in July. Although they were passed as one legislative package, they function as two distinct laws. But there is one common thread: Holding Big Tech providers more accountable for what happens on their platforms.