Havas N.V., the multinational communications group listed on Euronext Paris under the ticker HAVAS, has released its latest figures for the share‑repurchase initiative it launched in mid‑2025. The company disclosed that, between 2 March and 6 March 2026, it bought back 20,390 shares on the open market at an average price of €16.3158 per share. Cumulatively, the program has now…
The ad‑verification firm Pixalate has published its fourth‑quarter 2025 benchmark study on invalid traffic (IVT) and ad fraud across three key Asia‑Pacific markets: Japan, Singapore and India. The data‑driven analysis, which also forms part of a broader set of regional reports covering North America and Europe, focuses on programmatic advertising delivered through desktop and mobile…
Portland‑based Rain, a women‑led independent advertising agency known for its growth‑centric approach, announced on March 5, 2026 that its chief executive officer, Jane Crisan, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Xcelerate Women. The nonprofit, headquartered in Oregon, focuses on dismantling systemic barriers that impede women and gender‑expansive founders, helping them scale their businesses and generate…
Guideline, a New York‑based provider of ad‑intelligence and media‑plan management software, announced on March 5, 2026 that it is rolling out a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Media Plan Management suite. The new server acts as a bridge, allowing third‑party AI agents—whether proprietary tools, Claude, ChatGPT, or other MCP‑compatible bots—to query and interact with Guideline’s…
Nectar Services Corp., a long‑standing player in unified communications and contact‑center observability, announced on March 9, 2026 that its platform now includes a native artificial‑intelligence assistant. Unlike many third‑party add‑ons that require data export or separate tooling, the new assistant lives inside Nectar’s own stack, allowing operators to ask natural‑language questions about session data, configuration records, call…
Two veterans of the data‑management space announced a collaborative upgrade to their respective platforms, aiming to give organizations a single pane of glass for both structured and unstructured data. The partnership promises to blend BigID’s data‑security posture management (DSPM) capabilities with Atlan’s modern data catalog, creating a unified “control plane” that can feed AI pipelines…
Newgen Software, the provider of an AI‑first unified digital transformation platform, held an invitation‑only executive roundtable in Georgetown on March 10, 2026. The event, titled “The AI Decisioning Layer for Scaling Speed and Trust,” gathered senior executives from the country’s most influential banks and insurers at the Marriott hotel. Organisers framed the gathering as a peer‑led forum…
AI‑powered landscape that powers today’s chatbots and generative assistants is reshaping how brands are discovered online. In a freshly released analysis, Brandi AI – a platform that monitors enterprise visibility in AI‑generated answers – argues that public relations, not traditional SEO, is becoming the primary lever for brand presence in AI‑driven discovery. The report, authored by…
There has been a lot of attention around users exploring alternatives between AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. Why do you think this conversation is gaining momentum right now? What we are seeing right now is a natural evolution of a market that matured very quickly. Early in the generative AI boom, most people focused…
Picture a typical moment inside an AdTech team after launching a new AI-powered campaign system. The dashboards look promising. The leadership is thrilled with the deployment; the product teams move on to the next feature, and everyone is aware of it. However, three months later, the true test of whether the system is still learning and improving begins to emerge….
Havas N.V., the multinational communications group listed on Euronext Paris under the ticker HAVAS, has released its latest figures for the share‑repurchase initiative it launched in mid‑2025. The company disclosed that, between 2 March and 6 March 2026, it bought back 20,390 shares on the open market at an average price of €16.3158 per share. Cumulatively, the program has now…
The ad‑verification firm Pixalate has published its fourth‑quarter 2025 benchmark study on invalid traffic (IVT) and ad fraud across three key Asia‑Pacific markets: Japan, Singapore and India. The data‑driven analysis, which also forms part of a broader set of regional reports covering North America and Europe, focuses on programmatic advertising delivered through desktop and mobile…
Portland‑based Rain, a women‑led independent advertising agency known for its growth‑centric approach, announced on March 5, 2026 that its chief executive officer, Jane Crisan, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Xcelerate Women. The nonprofit, headquartered in Oregon, focuses on dismantling systemic barriers that impede women and gender‑expansive founders, helping them scale their businesses and generate…
Guideline, a New York‑based provider of ad‑intelligence and media‑plan management software, announced on March 5, 2026 that it is rolling out a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Media Plan Management suite. The new server acts as a bridge, allowing third‑party AI agents—whether proprietary tools, Claude, ChatGPT, or other MCP‑compatible bots—to query and interact with Guideline’s…
Nectar Services Corp., a long‑standing player in unified communications and contact‑center observability, announced on March 9, 2026 that its platform now includes a native artificial‑intelligence assistant. Unlike many third‑party add‑ons that require data export or separate tooling, the new assistant lives inside Nectar’s own stack, allowing operators to ask natural‑language questions about session data, configuration records, call…
Two veterans of the data‑management space announced a collaborative upgrade to their respective platforms, aiming to give organizations a single pane of glass for both structured and unstructured data. The partnership promises to blend BigID’s data‑security posture management (DSPM) capabilities with Atlan’s modern data catalog, creating a unified “control plane” that can feed AI pipelines…
Newgen Software, the provider of an AI‑first unified digital transformation platform, held an invitation‑only executive roundtable in Georgetown on March 10, 2026. The event, titled “The AI Decisioning Layer for Scaling Speed and Trust,” gathered senior executives from the country’s most influential banks and insurers at the Marriott hotel. Organisers framed the gathering as a peer‑led forum…
AI‑powered landscape that powers today’s chatbots and generative assistants is reshaping how brands are discovered online. In a freshly released analysis, Brandi AI – a platform that monitors enterprise visibility in AI‑generated answers – argues that public relations, not traditional SEO, is becoming the primary lever for brand presence in AI‑driven discovery. The report, authored by…
There has been a lot of attention around users exploring alternatives between AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude. Why do you think this conversation is gaining momentum right now? What we are seeing right now is a natural evolution of a market that matured very quickly. Early in the generative AI boom, most people focused…
Picture a typical moment inside an AdTech team after launching a new AI-powered campaign system. The dashboards look promising. The leadership is thrilled with the deployment; the product teams move on to the next feature, and everyone is aware of it. However, three months later, the true test of whether the system is still learning and improving begins to emerge….
