RedCircle’s Mike Kadin on the Programmatic Audio Landscape

In today’s MadTech Daily we discuss ChatGPT referrals failing to match drops from Search, Google’s new Search proposal to avoid an EU antitrust fine, and the IPA urging the reform of legacy agency pricing structures. 

In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover legal developments including Google being fined $314.6m and Paramount settling the ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit with Trump. We also look at X’s UK audience drop among the top 25 publishers, and the US Senate’s rejection of a ban on state-level AI regulation.

In Today’s Digest, we discuss a class action against Microsoft Ireland Operations, Netflix–NASA’s deal to boost live streaming lineup, Apple’s consideration of Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri, and John Lewis rolling out an offsite ad offering.

In this episode of the MadTech Podcast Special, Mike Kadin, founder and CEO, RedCircle, joins ExchangeWire's Mat Broughton to discuss programmatic audio. During the discussion, Kadin reveals: - How programmatic ad tech is evolving within audio according to listener habits - How brands can ensure brand safety and measurable impact across audio - The current and future relationship between creators, advertisers, and audio platforms

In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss Google’s soaring carbon emissions, Canada dropping a tech tax amid Trump trade talks, and Facebook requesting Meta AI access to unshared camera roll photos.

In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover Google launching Offerwall to boost publisher revenue, IAB launching a framework to standardise gaming ad metrics, Apple changing EU App Store terms with a new fee structure, and Apple and Google being told to drop the DeepSeek app by a German watchdog. We also discuss Meta facing potential daily fines over pay-or-consent model. 

In this MadTech Podcast episode, ExchangeWire head of marketing Grainne Reid is joined by head of content John Still and Uma Ranganathan, head of solutions development at dentsu APAC.  They discuss the tech trial carried out in Australia as the country moves towards fully implementing a ban on social media platforms for under 16s, the UK's advertising watchdog criticising ageism in ads, and the trading truce between China and the US. 

In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss a US Judge siding with Meta in an AI copyright lawsuit, authors suing Microsoft over AI training on books, and subscriptions surpassing display ads for UK digital publishers. 

In today’s MadTech Daily, we discuss a US federal court backing Anthropic on an AI training copyright lawsuit, Japan’s FTC penalising Dentsu and others over Olympic bids, as well as  IPA’s TouchPoints data revealing mobile topping TV in UK consumers’ screen habits.

In today’s MadTech Daily, we cover the CMA’s proposed search overhaul to curb Google’s dominance, the FTC’s intervention in the Omnicom-IPG merger, and the eSafety commissioner’s call to include YouTube in Australia’s under-16s social media ban. We also discuss the UK’s launch of a £380m plan to power creative industry growth.