Muck Rack joins Sounds Profitable's 210-member partner network, bridging AI-powered PR monitoring with podcast earned media and AI search visibility tracking.

Microsoft Clarity Citations is now generally available, letting publishers measure how AI-generated answers discover, ground, and cite their web content pages.

Direct traffic looks like a ranking signal, but the AI citation debate shows why symptoms of SEO success keep getting mistaken for causes.

One-Click CAPI is active for me, AI translations appear, Video Generation returns, and Live Video Ads roll out in Meta Ads Manager.

Adthena's ChatGPT Ads platform tracks 300k+ daily prompts, competitor bids, ad copy, and brand share of voice across the growing conversational search channel.

Acast today launched the first integrated video ad campaigns on Apple Podcasts, with State Farm and T-Mobile as the lead brands using Apple HLS technology.

Amazon Ads sets a June 30 consent signal deadline for UK and EEA advertisers using AAT, CAPI, and the Events API. Here is what is required and how it works.

Each layer has different failure modes, different fixes, and different organizational owners. Most marketing teams are working hard on the wrong one.

Spotify video distribution API is now live on Libsyn, Podigee, Audioboom, Audiomeans, and Podspace, with Apple HLS cross-platform support coming later in 2026.

Texas AG Ken Paxton sued Netflix for secretly harvesting behavioral data from users including children, without consent, then sharing it with ad tech companies.

Google Analytics adds a native AI Assistant channel, automatically tracking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude traffic without manual custom channel group setup.

beehiiv hired Ainsley Rossitto from Paramount Global as Head of Podcasts, as global podcast ad spend heads toward $5 billion and US monthly listeners hit 58%.

Gracenote surveys 500 U.S. media professionals and finds missing show-level data prevents CTV budget growth, with 86% of planners ready to shift linear dollars.

Google's Ads DevCast covers MCP servers, Data Manager API, developer workflows, and advertising API integration best practices across all four 2026 episodes.

Stroer reported Q1 2026 revenue of 496 million euros, with digital out-of-home growing 12% and programmatic DOOH up 12.1%, outpacing a flat German ad market.

Google Analytics now separates AI assistant traffic from referrals with a new default channel group for recognized chatbot referrers like ChatGPT and Gemini.

OpenAI is adding custom audience targeting to ChatGPT ads - advertisers will upload hashed emails and phone numbers to filter or exclude users in campaigns.

HubSpot launches AEO Sensor, a free public dashboard for answer engine volatility, citation shifts, and AI-referred traffic from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity

Amazon cancels its Selling Partner API usage and annual fees for third-party developers after community feedback, reversing plans announced in November 2025.

A new study maps the three-stage YouTube cascade inside Google Discover that grew 18x in a single quarter, now reaching 13% of English devices by February 2026.