Ronan Shields
Ad tech journalist
Digiday
Ronan Shields reports for Digiday on advertising technology, programmatic buying and the companies shaping the media market. His reporting examines platform decisions, industry governance and how automation changes the work of advertisers and publishers. His Ad Tech Briefing connects industry research with practical questions about control and accountability.
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Ad Tech Briefing: AI is changing programmatic buying faster than who controls it
Ronan Shields examines the gap between using AI to optimise campaigns and authorising it to buy media. His analysis of IAB Europe’s survey looks at adoption, human oversight and how teams measure success, then connects those questions to publisher controls. It offers a useful agenda for conversations with programmatic partners: who can approve spending, inspect decisions and intervene? Read the original for the survey’s small respondent groups and the distinction between operational efficiency and proven business performance.
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Safari 27.2 fixes a specific CNAME-related cookie lifetime issue
WebKit's Safari 27.2 release notes describe a fix for cookies set in a top-level navigation response that were capped to seven days when the site's hostname pointed to another registrable domain through CNAME.
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