Past-week video viewing among US podcast audiences rose from 40% to 44%, and podcast-native apps slipped to 15%. Advertising findings are due in later parts.

Churches must justify keeping records of people who leave, and a struck-through entry is no erasure, the C-12/25 opinion says. Will the Court of Justice follow?

An audiobook is a book recorded as narrated audio and sold, streamed or lent as digital files. How production, metadata, royalties and ad formats work today.

Panel data put US ad-eligible reach at 43.4%, and 51% of impressions fall in a chat's first three turns. What do share-only panel figures still leave unsaid?

AI narration is the use of speech synthesis to turn written text into a finished spoken recording. How audiobook and ad voice tools work, and where they fail.

Beta is a pre-release stage in which an ad platform opens an unfinished feature to a limited or self-selecting group of customers before general availability.

Alpha is the earliest outside test of an unfinished feature, opened by a platform to a small group of accounts it picks itself, before any beta or full release.

Aimed at robotics and driving datasets, the GPU method was tested on 3 scenes against a 20,480-frame reference. Its match to real sensor output is untested.

Platform-native reporting is used by 93% of 121 VP-level US marketers, and 74% want outside help. What the Lifesight-funded data shows - and what it leaves out.

Up to 50% of Meta's daily house ad impressions went to Muse in mid-September as Facebook and WhatsApp ceded share. Can installs hold once Meta's ad push eases?

Zefr's multimodal classifiers now read Reddit threads for brands, joining DoubleVerify, present since June 2024. Pricing, markets and pre-bid scope go unstated.

Vidmob's model sorted 1,934 Kroger ads into high and low converters with 81% accuracy on unseen data. Will the gap hold in Kroger's planned in-market test?

Finance apps in Türkiye held 4% of users at day 30, double the global rate, while game apps kept just 1% of players. What does that gap mean for app ad buyers?

ROAS, or return on ad spend, is attributed revenue divided by advertising cost. How platforms compute it, how it became a bidding target and where it misleads.

Three batches of deals a day, at midnight, 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. PDT, reach members in 22 countries on October 6-7. Will Alexa's auto-purchases reshape ad demand?

YouTube featured in 25% of AI Overview answers on UK B2B vendors, versus none of 360 on ChatGPT. Does a rephrased buyer question change who is recommended?

AI Plus subscribers paying $4.99 a month keep Flash but are shut out of Pro. Paid limits start at 2x standard. Where does Gemini 4 Argon sit in Google's range?

Software that reads files, mail, messages and browsing history on a Mac will need very explicit user action, but Apple named no version. Which apps are covered?

For site owners: Ceramic.ai, Exa and Linkup must run verified crawlers that obey robots.txt. Native server tools are promised next, though no date is given.

DoorDash's text-ordering agent reportedly serves 20,000 US iOS users while Amazon blocks Muse. Can merchant fees alone fund Meta's shopping agent for years?