One in 11 Facebook and Instagram ad files from 509 brands carried AI media, 70% built to look real. Labelling rules in New York and the EU already apply to ads.

Streaming took 48.7% of US national TV ad spend on 21.9% of impressions in Q3, iSpot found, as Pinterest put its own inventory inside Amazon and Google DSPs.

Cinemas got one weekend of exclusivity from October 23, and Amazon has published no box office data. What the short window means for cinema and streaming ads.

Cookies set by a page's own response expired after a week when its hostname pointed to another domain. Does the fix also reach server-side tracking subdomains?

Pre-orders open October 28 in 36 markets, but EU buyers get no Siri AI on the new tablet. Apple says its capped AI features will later cost extra. How much?

Datasets already sending events are switched on by default, and matching runs on the shopper's own device. Meta has not said if recovered sales feed bidding.

Google's John Mueller responded to a stalled Search Console indexing report and suggested that SEOs may need to relax about data freshness.

Advertisers in the UK, Germany, France and six other markets get deduplicated attentive reach. Canada and Mexico come next; the calculation remains unpublished.

Meta clarifies upcoming placement control changes, including which objectives are impacted, new account-level controls, and alternatives.

Advice requests rose from 5.5% to 9.0% of US work use of ChatGPT in a year as computer tasks fell to 6.7%. What else do 165 job tasks reveal about AI at work?

Katie Morton and Ziff Davis' Jonathan Berthold discuss what to test first when traffic is flat and budget is zero, and how to get leadership to sign off.

Practical advice now leads with 28.1% of requests and coding help fell to 4.6%. Which countries, age groups and genders are behind the change in ChatGPT use?

Direct brand content sales rose 69% and revenue hit £106m, yet £30.1m of net cash became £5.8m of debt. Can Uncovered carry the FY27 growth the board expects?

Google is testing a “Visit site” label on sponsored ads, featuring blue text on a white background with a border. Clicking the label takes users to the same website as the ad title.

Google Ads has started rolling out an AI translation tool that can translate ad text, keywords, image text, and landing pages directly inside the interface.

Allocate your next marketing budget increase by weighing retention and conversion fixes against more paid search, then stage funding around research.

Looking things up now makes up about as large a share of consumer ChatGPT messages as writing, though the increase is smaller than earlier data.

Learn how to get started with Microsoft Advertising, from setting up search campaigns to understanding match types, platform differences and targeting opportunities.

Avoid six common Google Ads optimization mistakes, from chasing optimization score to changing bids too quickly and tracking low-value conversions.

Bing is testing a menu-style links design within sponsored results, different from its recent bubble-box sitelinks, though it could not be replicated on a second visit.

Shopify's AI agent knowledge base now lives in the admin. Policies and contact details publish by default, and some app users need to re-add their facts.