Each day, New Digital Age gathers the most interesting digital marketing industry news from around the web…
AUDIO
Performance Marketing World – Bethany Lee, 24th July 2026
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Ads expands audio offering with NewsUK partnership
The integration gives advertisers access to top UK podcast and radio stations amassing over 15.5 million monthly listeners.
CONSUMER
Retail Week – Megan Robinson, 24th July 2026 (also in Retail Gazette)
Consumer confidence on the up thanks to football, heatwaves and a new PM
Consumer confidence was on the rise in July, delivering the largest monthly increase since November 2023.
RETAIL
Retail Week – Megan Robinson, 24th July 2026
UK retail sales rise again in June thanks to hot weather, says ONS
Retail sales grew again in June as the warm weather and sales promotions were estimated to have helped volumes, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
BIG TECH
Bloomberg – Bloomberg reporters, 23rd July 2026
Alphabet Falls as $205 Billion Spending Plan Fuels AI Cost Fear
Alphabet Inc. raised its capital spending forecast to as much as $205 billion this year, reigniting concerns about a lack of fiscal discipline in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
AdAge – Garett Sloane, 23rd July 2026
How Apple’s ads business could move beyond the App Store and its other properties
Apple, which spent years building an alternative advertising platform that eschewed ad tech’s intrusive powers, is now moving on two fronts to possibly expand the scope of the business. A policy change could let Apple Ads run beyond Apple’s own properties, and Apple now has an AI-driven bidding tool that early users say is starting to work.
Financial Times – Barbara Moens, Henry Foy, and Aime Williams, 23rd July 2026
EU fines Google €890mn in test of Donald Trump’s threats to protect Big Tech
EU competition chief says it is bloc’s ‘duty to defend rule of law’ while delivering ‘strong message’ to search giant
CTV
The Current – Chris Stokel-Walker, 23rd July 2026
The biggest screen wants the smallest budgets
If you want to spread the word about your business, get on TV. But it’s easier said than done: TV advertising has historically been expensive and complicated to arrange.
