An AI agent does things its customer would not, on that customer’s behalf. Three businesses answered that problem three ways in October.

Advertisers spent $109.9m on Times digital ads, below mid-to-high-teens guidance. Q4 guidance slows to high-single-to-low-double digits against a $147.2m base.

Ads are being tested in the community platform's own search results with a select group of advertisers, matched partly by relevance to what people search.

Yahoo billed 14.8% of Q3 revenue as publisher ad impressions fell and sales dropped 6.9% to $462.3m. Each side alleges non-compliance; the Q4 outlook falls too.

Digital screens took 45.4% of €1,010.5m in Q3 revenue, up from 41.8%, changing how outdoor ads are bought. Can Q4 guidance of around 6% organic growth hold?

Podcasters can reuse existing audio campaigns in video with no new production, after tests with unnamed publishers. Who pays Apple's impression fee is unclear.

Fans get home-team radio calls from November 19 and a SiriusXM-made final on December 18, up to 33 matches. Ad buyers still get no listener or sponsor figures.

NABP accreditation, at $1,075 per website, will count toward Google telehealth ad certification in the US, UK and Canada. When applications open is unclear.

Google is expanding UCP-powered direct checkout in AI Mode and the Gemini app to Canadian shoppers, with a Merchant Center integration planned for next year.

Accepting the terms sends a store catalog to Microsoft Merchant Center; agent tracking sees only Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. Who qualifies, and at what cost?

Only 58% of 50 surveyed advertisers get raw log-level data from the three gatekeepers. Will Brussels use delegated acts or force a buy-side, sell-side split?

Segments by retailer, category and in-store or online channel, refreshed daily, open to QSR, travel and auto brands. Which DVA+ tier can use them is unclear.

Two UN rapporteurs say Irish curbs on litigation funding can leave privacy class actions out of reach. Can they make Dublin change how DPC members are chosen?

AI developers would have to honour robots.txt opt-outs, skip pirate sites and prove anti-memorisation steps. Will the Court of Justice rule on training at all?

Only 38% of consumers in seven countries would give AI some decision-making power, and 6% want full autonomy. Can approve-or-undo controls unlock agent sales?

Large retailers refused the agent at a 20% rate, emerging ones at 2.5%, yet all 24 refusers with readable robots.txt allow AI crawlers. Who set those blocks?

Meta's tracker appears in 100 of 116 settlements studied and healthcare firms make up 64% of defendants. Why does California's SB 690 reach only 3% of them?

CTV buyers get an honored study that counted YouTube sessions from 30 seconds and premium apps from 5 minutes. What does MarCom's Platinum score actually judge?

Merchants join via Feedonomics, Salsify, CEDCommerce, VersaFeed or Amazon's API, with no fees. Amazon gave no merchant count or traffic data for Shop Direct.

Search buyers on Prisma also get pacing and performance data back. Orders have synced since December 2024, so what is new and what does the release leave out?

Ride sharing installs ran 67% above average and all India installs peaked four days after the festival. What does that 2025 curve mean for Nov 6-10 budgets?