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.

The Trade Desk and Utiq announced a partnership integrating telco-powered, user-consented identity signals into the DSP's EMEA identity solutions portfolio.

Carvertise and Azira connect rideshare OOH ads to verified destination visits, giving DMOs measurable ROI and real-world attribution for tourism campaigns.

Amazon Marketing Cloud 1P signals are now free to query for audience creation and measurement through December 31, 2026, with no additional subscription cost.

Illinois yesterday passed SB 3019, imposing a 10% tax on targeted advertising, tiered social media fees, and a 0.2% digital asset levy starting January 1, 2027.

Meta's arbitration order bars Sarah Wynn-Williams and her own lawyer from speaking about Careless People, raising free speech and advertiser trust questions.

Uber Advertising launches Ads APIs, letting POS systems, aggregators, and CPG brands manage campaigns and pull performance data programmatically for first time.

Lifesight MCP, launched today, gives marketing and finance teams no-code access to their live causal measurement models directly inside Claude and ChatGPT.

Amazon Music Unlimited launches in India today with HD, Spatial Audio, and Dolby Atmos at Rs 99 per month for Prime members, alongside a six-month free trial.

54% of Americans are now comfortable using AI to plan a full vacation, but only 12% would allow fully autonomous booking without requesting approval first.

HUMAN Security says agentic AI traffic grew 7,851% in 2025, with just half a percentage point now separating benign automation from malicious fraud online.

Microsoft announced Web IQ, a set of grounding APIs that connect AI agents to Bing's index. Pricing and general availability remain unclear.

Adswerve named North American partner for Google GCS Implementation Partner (GIP), helping enterprise brands recover conversion signals lost to ad blockers.

Spotify launches Verified by Spotify badges for podcast shows and reaffirms its ban on AI voice cloning impersonation, protecting creator identity at scale.

CyberWell's report found 307 AI-generated antisemitic posts hit 30M views in 13 months. TikTok removed 88%, YouTube only 28%, and X just 20% of flagged content.

Global, the UK media group behind LBC and Capital, starts selling YouTube ads directly combining audio, outdoor and premium video in one commercial offering.

Microsoft launches Web IQ, a suite of grounding APIs connecting AI agents to live web data with sub-165ms latency, passage retrieval, and Bing's global index.

A 9,000-person eDreams ODIGEO poll finds 46% of Americans travel nationally for live sports, outpacing every country surveyed, with 37% cutting daily luxuries.