Search intent is fracturing beyond informational, navigational and transactional. Two new studies show what AI Mode and AI Overviews are doing to user behavior.

Google added documentation mapping regional Search features in the EEA, Türkiye, and South Africa, with eligibility and participation steps for site owners.

Consent management platform: the software that collects user permission for tracking, encodes it into a machine-readable signal, and gates ad revenue in Europe.

SPAC: a listed shell company that raises cash first and finds a private business to merge with later. How the structure works, and what it has done to ad tech.

GDPR is the EU regulation governing personal data: lawful bases, the consent standard, data subject rights and the penalties now shaping European advertising.

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Today's grid crosses four departments that rarely share a meeting, and one group is tighter than it looks.

Grindr will pay £26m to about 12,000 UK users over HIV status and location data shared with ad partners, pricing the exposure 5.4 times above Norway's fine.

Automatic activation lands on or after October 9 and reaches every site and app on the adsbygoogle tag, GPT or GMA SDK. What happens when no TC string arrives?

Code analysis found three checkout modes, one routing Shopify orders over UCP. Merchants who block agents now face a buyer they cannot tell apart from a bot.

Nearly a third of consumers say they will stop clicking ads from impersonated brands, yet just 4.2% blame them. A 1,029-person survey tracks where trust breaks.

Product rests on more than 18,000 survey responses and five destinations. Ad load, subscriber targets and inventory treatment remain undisclosed to buyers.

Founders ran Hawk DSP's UK arm before Azerion bought it. Signal folds first-party, search and mobile movement data into one map. Client access stays unstated.

Builders get an auto-generated ads account and creative pulled from the app itself, with billing through Wix. Where does that sit against Google's proxy rules?

Pre-orders open October 16 in 70-plus countries, leaving app teams six weeks to handle two viewports. Apple also signals a future paid tier for its AI tools.

Giving Perplexity less weight in AI search tracking helps avoid distorted visibility scores without losing signals that matter to your business.

How GrowRoom built a Google Ads script that automates daily budget pacing across every client account, freeing up time for strategic thinking.

Opt-in layer sits on top of malware and IVT filters across a network wired to 200-plus platforms. Can an exchange audit the supply it also gets paid to route?

Advertisers also get 94% faster design generation, plus JAX by default in version 2.0.0. Whether the savings hold outside Google's own tests remains unproven.

Stretchier paper removed 288 million bags from packing lines in 2025, and sellers lose the plastic mailer surface. What still jams the retrofitted machines?

Models refresh every five minutes and activate through a client DSP or managed service. Terms of the measurement deal stay undisclosed. Who audits the auditor?

ChatGPT Shopping is pulling more product picks from what it calls feed-integrated sources, and store visibility moved too.