LiveRamp faces August 17 vote on Publicis buyout at $38.50 a share
Revenue hit $214 million and buybacks stopped as merger terms now bind the identity vendor marketers rely on. Closing is still set for before the end of 2026.
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The latest news about data. Data is used in advertising in a variety of ways, including Audience targeting, Ad personalization, Ad optimization, Ad placement, and Measurement. Advertisers use data in advertising to reduce wasted ad spend.
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IAB Tech Lab sets September 4 deadline for comment on clean room data rules
Values marked for hashing must be hashed or encrypted before upload, and every Parquet file carries seven metadata keys. Feedback closes in early September.
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Nielsen ONE Ads gains all measurable CTV inventory in Japan
Coverage reaches every measurable CTV publisher two months after Japan's YouTube-only June launch, with offline delivery first. What happens to reporting next?
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Palm Lake tops Australia retirement advertisers as spend gains 10.4%
Nielsen Ad Intel puts category investment at $53.6m for the year to June 2026, while 4.68 million Australians have already retired. Who reaches the next 3.09m?
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Blogger owners face 89-day deletion clock as Google malware flags misfire
Google says a bug wrongly flagged some Blogger sites as malware for under a day. Sites aged 12 and 18 years were locked. No count of affected blogs was given.
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Solar firm loses GDPR fight over Schufa checks run before site visits
Judgment 42 K 56/25 hit a lead funnel that scored prospects before the first site visit. Judges backed the regulator on substance but not on its wording claim.
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Apple briefly drops Telegram from App Store after planted illegal content
Removal hit an app used by more than a billion people, and Apple made no contact first. Extortion crews now aim reports at app stores, not just at platforms.
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Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens warns menstruation apps face possible probe
Nearly a quarter of Dutch women log cycle data, and a redacted ICO file shows 11 UK apps drew closure letters, not enforcement. Which regulator moves next?
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Mozilla rates Stardust 2 of 10 over symptom data sent to third parties
Euki scored 10 of 10 for keeping logs on the device, while Period Calendar fed AdMob and DoubleClick from the first open. What does that leave media buyers?
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Brand marketers gain de-duplicated Meta measurement in LiveRamp clean room
Meta becomes a reporting source alongside CTV, programmatic, social and audio, with Hill's Pet Nutrition an early user. The Publicis deal now clouds neutrality.
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Hughes files Chapter 11 as Starlink cuts its subscribers to 641,000
Satellite ISP owed $1.5bn on notes that matured August 1 with $61.2m cash left. Rural households and in-store network contracts now ride on an enterprise pivot.
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Samsung bans proxy SDKs as a quarter of Tizen apps route strangers' traffic
Mnemonic found Bright Data code inside an Editor's Choice Pac-Man game, and 42% of LG apps carry similar SDKs. CTV buyers now face a new invalid-traffic vector.
