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Canal+ Launches a Free, Ad-Supported Sport+ Platform
Canal+ is rolling out a free, advertising-funded sports offer, opening premium-adjacent sports content to a mass audience and a new pool of advertisers.
Oct 92 min read


France's Valiuz Takes Its Retail Media Network to Poland
Valiuz, the retail-data and retail-media arm backed by the Mulliez family and the Mousquetaires group, is extending its network into Poland as it chases European scale.
Oct 92 min read


Securitize Goes Public as Tokenized Stocks Push Past $3.4 Billion
Tokenization platform Securitize debuted on the NYSE and tokenized about $295m of its own shares on Solana and Avalanche, as the real-world-asset market tops $3.4bn.
Oct 92 min read


IRS Clears Crypto ETFs to Stake Their Assets and Share the Rewards
A new IRS revenue procedure updates the safe harbor letting single-asset crypto ETF trusts stake proof-of-stake tokens and pass rewards to investors without losing their tax status.
Oct 92 min read


FinCEN Scraps Its 2023 Crypto Mixing Surveillance Rule
The US Treasury's financial-crimes bureau has withdrawn a 2023 proposal that would have forced heavy reporting on crypto 'mixing', citing a chilling effect on legitimate activity.
Oct 92 min read


ESMA Gives Crypto Platforms Three Months to Drop Non-MiCA Stablecoins
Europe's markets watchdog has told crypto platforms to stop offering stablecoins that fail MiCA rules and to clear existing exposure within roughly three months. Here is what it means for fintech brands and marketers.
Oct 93 min read


A German state pushes to regulate Big Tech like traditional media
NRW media minister Nathanael Liminski wants large platforms regulated for media-diversity protection via a draft Digital Media State Treaty.
Oct 82 min read


France Télévisions claims the YouTube news crown with 110 million September views
France Télévisions says its franceinfo YouTube channel hit 110 million views in September, about eight times a year earlier.
Oct 82 min read


France’s Equativ wires DoubleVerify’s quality checks into its SSP
French ad-tech platform Equativ has embedded DoubleVerify’s media-quality verification directly into its supply-side platform.
Oct 82 min read


Mistral unveils ‘Large 4’, a trillion-parameter bid to rejoin the AI race
French AI champion Mistral has unveiled Mistral Large 4, a roughly trillion-parameter open-weight model positioned as ‘designed in Europe’.
Oct 82 min read


Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade hits its first public testnet
Ethereum’s next major hard fork, Glamsterdam, has reached the Sepolia testnet, moving the network closer to enshrined proposer-builder separation.
Oct 82 min read


NewsGuard fights the FTC’s Omnicom–IPG ad condition in a brand-safety test case
NewsGuard is appealing an FTC condition on the Omnicom–IPG merger that restricts steering ad buys based on third-party journalism-standards ratings.
Oct 82 min read


Albertsons’ retail media chief exits as the network folds under the CMO
Albertsons Media Collective head Brian Monahan has departed after about 15 months, with the retail-media unit now reporting to the CMO.
Oct 82 min read


Meta, TikTok and X take Ofcom to court over Online Safety Act data demands
Meta, TikTok and X mounted one of the first legal challenges to the UK Online Safety Act, arguing Ofcom’s information demands are disproportionate.
Oct 82 min read


Kaufland Takes Its Online Marketplace to Spain With 3,100 Sellers
Kaufland, the Schwarz Group's hypermarket arm, has launched its online marketplace in Spain with 3,100+ sellers, extending the platform model it recently rolled out in the Netherlands.
Oct 72 min read


France's 43 Million Daily Listeners Are Blurring Radio, Streaming and Podcasts
Mediametrie's new L'Annee Audio finds 43 million people in France listen to audio daily, mixing radio, streaming and podcasts into one habit advertisers can't silo.
Oct 73 min read


Stagwell Merges Its Media Agencies Into a Single 'Stagwell Media' Network
Stagwell has folded Assembly Global and ADK into a single global network, Stagwell Media, across 50+ markets and built around its AI-powered Machine OS.
Oct 73 min read


How Kroger Forecasts Ad Conversion With 81% Accuracy Before Spending a Cent
Kroger, Vidmob and MMA Global built an AI model that forecasts ad-creative conversion with 81% accuracy before launch — and following it quadrupled conversion rates.
Oct 73 min read


Solana Launches 'DvP' to Settle Institutional Trades in Seconds, With JPMorgan's Input
The Solana Foundation has launched Solana DvP, an open-source standard that settles institutional trades on-chain in seconds, built with input from JPMorgan.
Oct 73 min read


US Scraps Its Proposed $10,000 Reporting Rule for Crypto Sent to Private Wallets
FinCEN has withdrawn the Trump-era proposal to report $10,000+ crypto transfers to self-custodied wallets, ending a rule that lingered for nearly six years.
Oct 73 min read
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