MadTech Daily: Meta Faces Up to $18bn Teen Safety Settlement; X Revamps Creator Pay With New Rewards Program
In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Meta agreeing to pay up to USD$18bn (£13.5bn) and restrict teen access under a sweeping state settlement, X revamping its creator pay with a new rewards program, a...
27 Aug 1min
MadTech Daily: New Support for ASA Awareness Campaign; TikTok Settles Children’s Privacy Case for USD$400m
In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover the ASA awareness campaign returning with expanded industry inventory, including Netflix and Waitrose, TikTok settling a children’s privacy case for USD$400m, and Ta...
26 Aug 1min
MadTech Daily: Amazon Sued Over AI Training on Twitch Videos; UK Digital Infrastructure Investment Hits Dot-Com Era Levels
In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Amazon being sued over its use of Twitch streamers’ videos to train AI models, UK digital infrastructure investment reaching dot-com era levels amid the AI data ce...
25 Aug 1min
MadTech Daily: WPP Hits Back at Whistleblower Suit; Meta Strips Advertisers of Placement Exclusion Controls; Paramount, California Hold Preliminary Warner Bros Talks
In today's MadTech Daily, we cover WPP's court filing against Richard Foster's whistleblower claims; Meta's decision to strip advertisers of the ability to exclude ad placements, and preliminary talks...
25 Aug 1min
Havas Media Network's Amy Banks on SEO, GEO, and Zero Click Search
In this episode of The MadTech Podcast, Amy Banks, head of SEO and GEO at Havas Media Network, joins ExchangeWire COO Lindsay Rowntree to discuss the evolution of search.LLMs have transformed search, ...
21 Aug 27min
MadTech Daily: OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads Pilot to 31 European Markets; Apple's Latest Spyware Alert Wave Appears Largest Yet
In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover OpenAI expanding its ChatGPT ads pilot to 31 European markets, Apple’s latest spyware alert wave appearing to be its largest yet, according to a digital rights group...
20 Aug 1min
MadTech Daily: Google's New Search Console Feature; Qwen Overtakes Meta
In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss critics arguing that Google’s new Search Console feature masks the decline in AI-driven traffic, Alibaba’s Qwen becoming the world’s most downloaded open-weight AI...
19 Aug 2min
MadTech Daily: Apple to Overhaul App Tracking Consent Rules; France's Court Blocks Under-15 Social Media Ban
In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Apple overhauling app tracking consent rules following a German antitrust probe, France’s top court blocking an under-15 social media ban in a setback to Macron, a...
18 Aug 1min
