Cloudflare launched EmDash on April 1 - a WordPress alternative with sandboxed plugins, x402 payments, and AI tools that drew criticism from Matt Mullenweg.

Paligo's interactive investigation maps AI's chip dependency, energy demands, and content layer - revealing what it actually costs to run a model at scale.

Samsung is discontinuing its Messages app in July 2026, pushing millions of Galaxy users to Google Messages with RCS, Gemini AI features, and scam detection.

Performance Max campaigns face growing scrutiny at high spend levels as practitioners report budget drift, over-indexing on remarketing, and loss of channel control above $100k/month.

Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan each enacted AI legislation in 2025-2026. Here is what the laws actually say - and how they compare.

Perplexity AI filed its opening appeal brief on April 1, 2026, arguing Amazon misused federal computer fraud law to block competition in agentic AI shopping.

Perplexity's Ninth Circuit appeal challenges Amazon's use of hacking law to block AI shopping agents, threatening the ad model behind $69 billion in revenue.

System1 ranked UK 2026 Easter ads on 30 March, with Lindt scoring 5.9 Stars - highest emotional response as HFSS rules reshape food creative strategy.

EU ePrivacy derogation expires as Google, Meta pledge voluntary CSAM scanning despite documented false positives and unresolved legal questions in Europe.

YouTube sets May 13 for Brandcast 2026 at Lincoln Center, revealing $100B paid to creators since 2021 and its pitch to capture traditional TV ad budgets.

The next phase of the web depends on shared AI standards, and these four protocols are quickly becoming the foundation businesses need to watch.

The company behind QVC and HSN missed its annual filing deadline on March 31, 2026, warning of $6.6B in debt and substantial doubt about its ability to survive.

A federal class action filed March 31 accuses Perplexity AI, Google, and Meta of secretly collecting AI conversation data, including health and finance queries, via embedded trackers.

IAB Australia's February 2026 sports data shows 13.5 million Australians use sports sites monthly, with BVOD audiences surging 65% in January driven by the Australian Open.

IAB Australia's Data & Privacy 101 with Sarah Kruger covers consent rules, tracking pixels, deidentification, and Privacy Act reforms for digital advertisers.

TikTok Shop marks one year in Germany with seller revenues nearly doubled, 25,000 active sellers, and Gen X holding 37% of total value share - defying platform stereotypes.

Meta should give advertisers the option to define site links at an account level so that we don't need to keep removing suggested links.

Tubular Labs data from November 2025 to February 2026 reveals a 12-hour engagement gap for LATAM news publishers on Instagram, with regional video length patterns across APAC, EMEA, and North America.

New documents reveal how LinkedIn's BrowserGate system maps competitor tool usage, extracts trade secrets, and may breach criminal law across Germany, UK, and the EU.

ProGEO.ai research reveals just 7.4% of Fortune 500 companies have implemented llms.txt, while 92.8% use robots.txt and 53.8% use JSON-LD for AI visibility.

Google vehicle ads now available in Spain, Italy and Germany as of March 2026, requiring Merchant Center data feeds and Performance Max campaigns to serve inventory ads.