Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Retailers have suffered a sharp year-on-year decline in footfall as inflation, fuel and household bill rises kept shoppers at home, figures show. Total UK footfallContinue Reading

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Piero Pavone is the founder and CEO of Preciso, the Italian adtech company behind the Smart Bidding programmatic platform and the Ultima native advertising solution. In May 2026 Preciso launched Ultima Ads for Advertisers as an app for Shopify merchants, a month after releasing Ultima for Publishers as a WordPressContinue Reading

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