Nielsen counted €2.39 billion of gross ad spend in Germany in August, up 0.9%. Online rose 14.7% while TV fell 4.9%.
Dentsu is now Netflix's sole holding-company media partner across EMEA. It adds 21 markets to the UK business it already held.
On is entering football with Kylian Mbappé as global ambassador. Mbappé leaves Nike, his sponsor since 2006.
Converse apologised for a Chuck 70 X campaign image that critics compared to KKK and lynching imagery and removed it from its channels.
Google is testing a "Dive deeper" button in Discover that opens an AI topic overview. The test starts with video cards.
The Regional Court in Frankfurt ruled on 16 September that Meta is liable for scam ads misusing Finanzfluss. The judgment is not final.
Pinterest unveiled Visual Search Ads on 17 September. The beta opens to eligible advertisers in all its ad markets in the coming weeks.
Christopher Kaiser of Ströer will lead Score Media Group from 1 January 2027. The move is part of a three-way leadership swap between German media sellers.
Netflix, Amazon and YouTube launched the Streaming Access and Choice Alliance on 14 September. It will argue that leagues should be free to sell games to streamers.
Taboola will pay 64 pence a share for Dianomi, plus up to 24 pence more. The London-listed network sells finance ads on sites such as Reuters and CNN Business.
Infillion is buying Foursquare, Axios reported on 18 September. The deal joins store visit data with the purchase data Infillion got with Catalina.
DoubleVerify launched Ask Neura on 17 September, a chat tool for campaign quality data. It also connects to AI assistants such as Claude.
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