Amazon DSP launched automatic deal selection on April 15, 2026, using machine learning to curate and optimize streaming TV deals for awareness and reach KPIs.

Brands are rapidly shifting influencer budgets from creator fees to paid amplification on TikTok and Instagram, turning creator posts into measurable ad assets.

TransUnion and Google integrate YouTube into multi-touch attribution, letting advertisers measure video's role across the full media mix for the first time.

Clarity shows which grounding queries pull your content into Copilot. The patterns surface insights worth acting on, even for non-Bing SEOs.

AI may dominate the attention around WordPress 7.0, but Armstrong also brings major changes to editing, design, navigation, and publishing.

Bad deployments can take weeks to recover from in search. Test your staging site the right way before pushing large scale sites live.

The shared standards that made one engine’s advice apply to all of them don’t exist between LLM providers.

Google AdSense expands collapsible anchor ads to desktop and renames the format to dynamic anchors, with automatic activation deadline set for June 20, 2026.

Google began rolling out the May 2026 core update, the second broad core update this year. It may take up to two weeks to complete.

Adobe Firefly and Acrobat research scores 1,000 marketer prompts, finds average C grade with no A scores, revealing a gap between confidence and actual skill.

Spotify unveiled podcast Memberships, Personal Podcasts and real-time interactivity at its 2026 Investor Day, reshaping how creators earn and listeners engage.

Spotify detailed its rebuilt advertising platform at the 2026 Investor Day, with biddable channels now topping a third of ad revenue and 68% advertiser growth.

Google replaced its search AI model, added background agents, rebuilt the search box, and brought personal data integration to 200 countries on May 19, 2026.

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Digital Remedy launches a political media division with 17+ data partners and household-level voter measurement for campaigns ahead of the 2026 midterm cycle.

Gracenote's Q2 2026 Data Hub update shows sports now represents 5% of SVOD content, with HBO Max holding 35% of all sports programming across major streamers.

Google unveiled 42 lead gen launches at GML 2026 covering AI bidding, creative tools, measurement upgrades, and new ad formats for search, YouTube, and Maps.

A new survey of 210 senior marketers finds 80% optimize campaigns without verified purchase data, 91% doubt platform results, and only 20% use full automation.

A Smarty Marketing survey of 1,295 US consumers finds Google holds 56.68% of shopping search starts in 2026, with ChatGPT at just 7.26% and Amazon at 28.96%.

A new Originality.ai study scanning over 3 million websites finds just 26 public UCP implementations, raising questions about agentic commerce readiness.

Fuse Media has named iSpot its official measurement provider for CTV and FAST inventory, bringing outcomes-based attribution to 84 million monthly viewers.