Pixalate this month revealed that In-app ad fraud is growing and in the second quarter of 2019 reached 25% of the ads. These are findings of Pixalate’s Q2 2019 Ad Fraud Report, that breaks down the latest in ad fraud across desktop, mobile in-app, and OTT/CTV. Pixalate says

Disney yesterday announced the launch dates of Disney+ in Canada, the Netherlands, U.S., Australia, and New Zealand.

Roku yesterday added “Kids & Family” on The Roku Channel.

Integral Ad Science (IAS) yesterday announced the appointment of Chance Johnson as Chief Revenue Officer. Johnson served before as the Senior Vice President of Sales for Amobee.

Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Analytics8, Accenture yesterday announced. Analytics8 is a privately held Australian big data and analytics consultancy that specialises in data management, reporting and visualisation, data science and analytics services. Analytics8 was founded in 2002, and provides data and analytics solutions. Accenture says has

Spotify is updating the Premium Family Plan. Spotify Premium Family Plan costs 14.99 euros and 6 family members can share the plan. The new upgraded Spotify Premium Family Plan is now available in Ireland, and will rollout in all other countries this fall. Spotify Premium Family subscribers have on-demand

Google is changing the ad delivery options in Google Ads, maintaining only the standard delivery active in all search, shopping, and shared budgets campaigns. Accelerated delivery will disappear starting September 17, 2019 on these campaigns. The exception are for display campaigns and video campaigns, where accelerated delivery will continue to

eMarketer last week downgraded Facebook user growth in France and Germany. eMarketer says younger age groups are shifting their usage to other platforms.

Adform this week launched a Cross-Device Graph done in-house.

70 network operators in around 40 countries are using Mobile Connect.

Quora this month integrated LiveRamp IdentityLink in Quora Ads Manager, enabling the advertisers to onboard people-based audiences.

Facebook this month rolled out an update that makes Facebook Groups public or private. Before Facebook Groups could be public, closed or secret.

Facebook this week launched movie reminder ads and movie showtime ads.

U.S. digital advertising revenues reached a landmark high of $28.4 billion in the first quarter of 2019, IAB announced this month.

Amobee this month launched a data marketplace for connected TV advertising.

LinkedIn created an Audience Engagement API. The first partners with access are Amobee, Annalect, Hootsuite, Ogilvy, and Sprinklr.

Google this week announced that it has integrated the Open Measurement Software Development Kit (SDK) into Google Mobile Ads (GMA) SDK and into Interactive Mobile Ads (IMA) SDK.

ProSieben (SevenOne Media) and RTL (IP Deutschland) are creating a walled garden to sell addressable TV and online video to advertisers. The DSP from the joint venture between ProSiebenSat.1 and Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland is Active Agent. The Joint venture is d-force, and each company owns 50%. The German Federal

TAG this week revealed a study that highlights the financial risk to brands from a brand safety crisis involving their advertising.

Google this week updated Google Ad Manager API (new version v201908) to include new reporting dimentions.

Triton Digital this week announced that it is among the first companies to secure the IAB Tech Lab Podcast Measurement Compliance verification.

Pinterest is opening an office Sydney, the company announced yesterday. The Australian office will serve Pinners, creators and businesses in Australia and New Zealand. According to Pinterest, Pinners in the two countries save nearly 4 million ideas to Pinterest each day. Pinterest’s Australian office is led by newly appointed

Uber this week announced the hiring of Thomas Ranese for the Vice President of Global Marketing role.

Index Exchange obtained the four Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) Seals.

Google yesterday included shopping campaigns in Google Ads’ Optimization Score. Optimization Score is now including search campaigns and shopping campaigns.