Affle will pay $11.70 a share in cash for Perion, about $420m. Perion keeps its brand and CEO, and the deal should close in early 2027.
Tesco, Sainsbury's and Argos released their Christmas ads on 1 November 2026. All three rely on a familiar face or a returning character.
DoorDash will pay $65 a share for Instacart. The deal brings Instacart Ads and its retail media software for grocers under DoorDash.
Lidl has given most of its $1bn European media account to Omnicom Media. Havas Media Network takes the German-speaking markets.
The UK competition watchdog will check whether Meta abuses a dominant position with terms that let it use content from business websites for AI.
Google and Microsoft will read one shared robots.txt rule that tells AI firms not to train on a site. Bing adds a separate setting for AI answers.
Shoppers in the UK paid more per item, with household appliances up 53%. Every EU market in the pack grew, and Poland rose 71% on a small base. Estimates from analytics firm FastMoss.
WPP Media grew 0.3% like-for-like in the third quarter of 2026. The WPP group fell 2.1% and kept its full-year forecast.
Finnish news agency STT will close its news and photo service after March 2027. The decision ends 89 jobs, 68 of them in the newsroom.
Pinterest made no more money in Europe than a year ago, and Meta's European growth fell almost five points. Of six big platforms, only Microsoft sped up.
Amazon's advertising business grew 12% excluding currency in the third quarter of 2026, after 26% in the second. Amazon blames the Prime Day date.
Poland's consumer watchdog charged a holiday park on 28 October over fees added late in booking. EU law still does not name such fees.
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