AppLovin reports Q4 earnings of $3.24 per share on $1.66 billion revenue with 84% EBITDA margins, demonstrating rare combination of hyper-growth and profitability.

Inspired Taste bakes AI-generated key lime pie on February 11 to expose how Google's algorithms create inaccurate recipes while stealing brand names and photos from publishers.

Google introduces shopping ad format in AI Mode on February 11, 2026, as VP Vidhya Srinivasan positions agentic commerce and Gemini-powered tools as defining marketing trends.

Vidhya Srinivasan on eliminating choice between speed and certainty in shopping, plus her five-point playbook for leading through AI transformation.

BCN and Kleinanzeigen integrate European Unified ID and OpenPath to strengthen German open web advertising through privacy-compliant identity and direct supply paths.

Only 11% plan spending over $100 for Valentine's Day 2026 as thoughtfulness tops price concerns, with 61% undeterred by inflation, InMarket survey finds.

DAX US partners with Learfield to monetize digital audio streams across collegiate basketball tournaments and football season through programmatic sales.

New York Times Advertising partners with Magnite's DV+ platform for private marketplace mobile in-app deals as publisher's app audience doubles while CTR grows 19% year over year.

Penske Media filed opposition arguments February 12 accusing Google of shattering the fundamental exchange that sustained the open internet for decades.

OpenAI begins testing ChatGPT ads at $60 CPM while Google launches AI Mode shopping ad formats, Discover gets a core update, and Spotify drops manual coding.

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show attracted 128.2 million viewers, ranking fourth all-time, while setting social media records with 4 billion views and shattering Spanish-language broadcast figures.

Kochava today launched Atlas Performance by Kochava, the industry's first true Supply Performance System for premium publishers and platforms.

EBANX reveals five payment trends reshaping emerging markets: RuPay credit cards outpace UPI growth in India, Pix dominates Brazilian e-commerce, and AI agents prepare to shop.

Federal prosecutors claim defendant's Claude chatbot queries lack attorney-client privilege in securities fraud case, citing AI's non-attorney status and Anthropic's data policies.

Chrome today opened its WebMCP Early Preview Program, enabling websites to expose structured tools for AI agents through declarative and imperative APIs.

Magellan AI's Q4 2025 report shows podcast advertising surged 32% year-over-year, with shaving brands leading 77% growth as 1,482 new advertisers test the channel.

HUMAN Security data shows scraping attacks jumped 35% during Super Bowl LX with 74 million retail attacks blocked, while financial account takeover surged 3,600%.

ChatGPT handles 12% of Google's search volume but sends 190 times less traffic to websites with a 96% lower click-through rate than Google's search engine.

iSpot launches SAGE, an agentic AI platform analyzing 2.5 million ads and 100 million consumer survey responses to accelerate TV advertising creative decisions.

SE Ranking analyzed 100,000 keywords across 20 niches revealing 15% of top 10 pages dropped from top 100 after Google's December 2025 core update, while domains 15+ years old still dominate.