Google rewrites CTV reach metrics, IP address data, and lead tracking this week, while X ad spend recovers and Meta AI surfaces a major account security flaw.

Hightouch partners with The Trade Desk to match exposure logs to warehouse-native first-party IDs, cutting multi-day identity resolution delays for brands.

PubMatic's Decision Fabric deploys partner AI models natively inside the auction, running on full bidstream signals before traffic shaping filters inventory.

DuckDuckGo US app installs rose 18% after Google IO 2026. Visits to its AI-free page climbed 23% as users turned to paid, ad-free alternatives like Kagi Search.

The Roku Channel added 20+ free live TV channels in May-June 2026, including FIFA Plus Women and Espanol, expanding its 500+ channel free streaming lineup.

Roku home screen gets its first major update in a decade, live for 100M US households with intelligence models choosing from billions of personalised combinations.

Australia's ACCC today issued takedown requests to Amazon, eBay, Kogan and Fruugo over banned high-powered magnet toys that can kill children if swallowed.

LinkedIn's Indie Summit data shows 40% of B2B deals are lost to indecision, not competitors. Here's what the numbers mean for paid social strategy in 2026.

Roku added FOX One to Premium Subscriptions on May 26, 2026, giving U.S. viewers all 104 FIFA World Cup matches and live FOX news and sports for $19.99 a month.

If 65% of your work is AI-exposed, the question isn't whether to use AI. It's what the remaining 35% is, and whether you can build something valuable around it.

Google's John Mueller dismisses LLMs.txt as speculative for now and says he likes WebMCP, a Google-backed alternative.

Before testing another bid strategy, audit your conversion architecture. A polluted primary pool is the most common cause of Smart Bidding drift.

Use Meta ads attribution breakdowns and Compare Attribution Settings to understand what your conversion results really mean.

A new Lighthouse report tells you if your site is ready for AI agents. Run it in Chrome Canary, no extra tools needed.

Peer39 acquires MRC-accredited Adloox from Scope3, gaining ad viewability and invalid traffic tools inside Google and Meta to challenge DoubleVerify and IAS.

SISTRIX data from German-language ChatGPT responses shows citation patterns changed after GPT-5.5 appeared. The company compares it to a core update.

Crunchbase's Market Insights launch introduces 5,100+ micro-industries, AI competitor scores, and sector-level momentum signals for GTM teams and investors.

Google's May core update finished rolling out on after nearly 12 days. SEO professionals described the update as heavier than March.

OpenAI migrated product feed management to the ChatGPT Ads Manager after instant checkout shut down in March, letting retailers auto-generate ads from catalogs.

Grocery TV's 2026 In-Store Shopper Perception Report finds 62% of shoppers bought after seeing an in-store ad, with receptivity up across all 15 tested zones.