Google says the Gemini app reached 1 billion monthly users, with 63% talking directly to it, alongside new usage data on camera, files, and automation.

Lunio found retail AI Max search campaigns carry 72% more invalid traffic and 68% of all invalid clicks. Google converts broad match ads on September 1, 2026.

Regulator cites a 54% jump in complaints and a March encryption change that cut detection. Sanctions reach R$50 million per infraction if the deadline slips.

Marvin rules out any benefit for campaigns already missing targets, and unconstrained accounts see nothing move. Which targets get reset before Monday, Aug 17?

Two partners stay unnamed only until discovery opens; the court already located the records inside Google. Binding US and EU data orders complete the squeeze.

Dentsu is signing its own Japanese ad buys with the same credential, and OP-CIP wants 50 organizations running it by early 2027. Will browser makers follow?

Programmatic screens grew 45% in the quarter for German buyers, while the data unit's earnings fell 43.6%. Full-year guidance holds, but can digital carry it?

ChatGPT ads now include automated bidding, placement controls, and new URL parameters for third-party tracking.

Get the GEO playbook Freshpet uses to get cited by name, and the checks your team can run to find its own gaps.

AI Overviews may be quietly eating your clicks. Here's how to prove it in Search Console, and which keywords are worth fighting for.

Sixteen ad tech terms sort into four groups of four. Several tiles look like they belong to a group they do not, and that is the whole puzzle.

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Friday's grid runs hard, and one group turns on a second meaning that has nothing to do with advertising.

Sixteen terms, four groups of four, drawn from the parts of the job that changed most in the last decade. The hardest group rewards a long memory.

Wall Street is measuring Reddit through traffic, partnerships, and quarterly volatility. Its real value is the human validation layer that search, marketers, and AI are still trying to replace.

Claude's watermark is still a secret, but Anthropic has disclosed enough details to pin down how it might work.

Smart Bidding optimizes toward whatever value you feed it. Here's how to find inflated conversion data before it trains your tROAS on fiction.

Barometer's AI reads full transcripts and audio pre-release across Spotify, SiriusXM, NPR and Acast, tagged to IAB Taxonomy 3.0. Does granularity widen reach?

Cyd Converse takes a newly created post spanning 18,000 publisher sites, inheriting the Uplift and Shine programmes. Can advocacy change what platforms decide?

Instagram accounted for 462,000 removals and Facebook 294,000, figures reported to eSafety. Meta now wants a single age check at the operating system level.

Registration runs through meta.vi.ie and a dedicated phone line, with Meta funding hands-on training for each pair. What does it signal for wearable ad reach?

Creation of legacy setups ended August 3. Migrated campaigns keep search term matching on by default, and older API versions survive only to September 2027.