India's 100th-ranked song outdrew nine national No. 1s, while two deaths pushed 12 catalogue tracks into the charts in three days. What can a media plan book?

Lee Enterprises picks up the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Great Falls Tribune and two other titles. No price was disclosed, and local ad sales now change hands.

RampID-matched CRM, loyalty and app files now build ChatGPT targeting and suppression sets for advertisers. OpenAI lists 63 ad countries: what of the other 52?

Buyers see a 98th-percentile match and paid rate claim from one unnamed DSP, AudienceMix says. Traders keep final approval, so what can the software decide?

Podcast buyers face a chart in which 81 of the top 150 shows sell through iHeart, and SiriusXM does not appear. Why just 28 of 200 survey-ranked shows overlap.

Planners get over 3 billion gameplay signals on 113 million monthly players in eight markets. Can a gaming network's own data win a place in core ad budgets?

Direct mail senders: 34% of 2,000 US adults now rate print more trustworthy than digital, up 9 points. Which Lob figures survive a close read of the charts?

A court brief quotes an OpenAI engineer saying users "won't click" links and cites Microsoft data on lower CTRs in Bing Chat than in search.

Automated requests passed human ones in May 2026, over a year ahead of Cloudflare's forecast, Prince told Decoder. Who pays for the web once ads stop working?

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 prompting guide asks developers to retest effort settings and reconsider chat prompt lines telling Claude to think carefully.

Google is rolling out AI Mode's information monitoring to all users globally after paid subscribers had it first. Search will also suggest monitoring tasks.

Sixteen terms, four groups, and a grid that crosses search, audio and the money side. One of the four groups is far narrower than the tiles make it look.

AI scraping bots would have to name themselves under a bill that 300 publishing executives took to Washington, as Cloudflare reset its own crawler controls.

ING and KPN quit as sponsors after the Dutch DPA's unlawful 2019 fine notice, Utrecht judges held. No contracts were filed. Can a regulator ever be made to pay?

Cost per individual viewer fell 25% for Unilever and WPP Media in early testing. Which publishers, channels and markets will the pooled buy actually cover?

Advertisers heard of the same switch for September 2025; AdSense publishers move February 17, 2027. Google puts no figure on the fall - what will invoices show?

Vuly's timer restarted twice for Australian shoppers as an up-to-30% offer rose to up to 45%. James Lane pre-planned its extension. More due by Black Friday?

Make local businesses easier to discover in AI search. Google and Uberall cover Business Profile data, reviews, local content, automation, and measurement.

Google is testing a sponsored product grid that appears to replace the organic product grid entirely, with Brodie Clark warning the labeling isn't disclosed clearly enough to avoid user confusion.

Google Ads is testing a beta 'Promotion Mode' setting that lets advertisers set promotion dates, adjust Target ROAS tolerance, and add extra daily budget, then automatically reverts afterward.