A German appeals court on April 13, 2026, ordered Meta to pay €1,500 in GDPR damages for tracking an Instagram user via Business Tools on third-party sites.

EU proposes requiring Alphabet to share Google Search query, click, ranking and view data with rival engines on FRAND terms in DMA specification proceedings.

An EU Advocate General says data protection authorities qualify as data controllers under GDPR and cannot block subject access requests under national law.

Channel V Media survey of 250 executives finds brand differentiation and visibility now rank above lead generation as marketing's hardest problems in 2026.

Primis logged production bidder responses and found the full VAST XML already in browser memory, removing the need for any Prebid Cache replacement by April 30.

AI shopping agents are already finding products and completing purchases, pushing merchants to rethink checkout as machine-readable commerce infrastructure.

Meta announced a no-cost, one-click Conversions API solution. This could be a really big deal for small businesses.

DIRECTV Advertising on April 16 became the first MVPD to join LiveRamp's CAPI Hub, enabling real-time conversion signals across its premium CTV ad inventory.

iSpot's Outcomes ADvantages debut: Home Depot's ESPN college football ads reached 74% of U.S. households and drove a 42% in-store visit conversion lift in 2025.

Salesforce opens its entire platform as APIs, MCP tools, and CLI commands so AI agents can operate without a browser, shipping over 100 new developer tools.

Perion and EMARKETER survey 111 US marketers on creative optimization: only 3.6% actively optimize despite 89% viewing creative as critical to performance.

Singular's 2026 ROI Index ranks mobile ad networks by performance across trillions of impressions, with AI and multi-touch attribution now shaping results.

Jomboy Media and Fubo launched a first-ever 24/7 creator-led sports channel on April 15, timed to baseball season, available to all FuboTV base plan subscribers

Fluency appoints Eric Picard as SVP of Product, bringing his RTB and programmatic curation expertise to its agentic AI advertising platform after a $40M Series A.

Magnite and AMC Global Media unify linear and streaming programmatic access under a single ClearLine entry point ahead of the 2026-27 upfront buying season.

Moloco launched Performance CTV on April 15, bringing mobile-grade measurement and real-time AI optimisation to connected TV for app marketers across the globe.

Roku crossed 100 million streaming households and disclosed for the first time a full financial breakdown of its advertising and subscription segment revenues.

France's CNIL adopted its final email tracking pixel recommendation on March 12, 2026, setting strict consent and data minimization rules for email marketers.

Research on 68 million AI crawler visits show clear patterns that drive better AI search performance to business sites.

Search engines now rely on AI-driven systems that continuously evaluate authority, freshness, and first-party signals to decide which sources are trusted and used in answers.

Google has outlined best practices that can increase the likelihood of "Read more" deep links appearing.