Advertisers can now create and manage negative keyword lists directly in Microsoft Advertising

Bing rewrote its webmaster guidelines to cover Copilot grounding, meta directive controls for AI answers, and a softened stance on AI-generated content.

What should you prioritize for SEO in 2026? Chima Mmeje offers six tips for staying on top of SEO in 2026, including how to optimize for agentic AI, build entity clusters, and track LLM metrics to stay ahead.

Flipboard onboarded dozens of independent publishers in February 2026, using algorithm boosts and human editors to fight Google Zero and media consolidation. 158 characters.

IP addresses match postal records just 13% of the time, according to a CIMM study. FreeWheel explains why deterministic data - not raw IPs - is key to CTV targeting accuracy.

JamLoop and Aristotle launched ActiveVoter™ on February 26, a CTV product that removes already-voted households from political ad delivery using state early voting files.

The US programmatic market entered 2026 with a sharp post-holiday CPM reset, though strong annual growth and rising secure signal adoption point to a maturing ecosystem with shifting identity dynamics.

UK's ICO fined MediaLab £247,590 for failing to protect children on Imgur, finding no age checks were in place from September 2021 to September 2025.

UK's ICO fines Reddit £14.47m for failing to verify users' ages and processing children's data without a lawful basis, marking a significant UK enforcement action.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused Pentagon demands to remove AI safeguards on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, triggering an unprecedented supply chain designation threat.

Google plans to test giving vertical search services top billing in European search results for hotels, flights, and restaurants as EU fine pressure grows under DMA.

ODDITY Tech reported record full-year 2025 revenue of $810 million while disclosing a severe disruption in user acquisition costs linked to algorithm changes at its largest advertising partner, triggering a stock collapse that has wiped over 66% of the company's…

A new DAA survey finds 85% of Americans recognize the AdChoices icon - a record high - while 88% expect interest-based ads and 87% back watchdog oversight.

Spain's AEPD published a 71-page guide on agentic AI and GDPR compliance, covering prompt injection, memory risks, automated decisions, and data minimization.

The Dutch data protection authority warned on February 12, 2026, that open-source AI agents like OpenClaw pose major risks of data breaches and account takeovers.

FTC's February 25, 2026 COPPA policy statement shields platforms collecting kids' data for age verification from enforcement - what it means for digital advertising.

WPP posts worst results since Covid, Trade Desk stock drops 16%, PubMatic bets on agentic AI, and Google's Discover update silently kills publisher traffic.

SISTRIX analyzed 100M+ keywords to reveal AI Overviews cut Germany's top position CTR by 59%, cost 265M monthly clicks and target SaaS self-promotional listicles.

A side-by-side look at two SSPs reporting Q4 2025 results within 24 hours of each other exposes a striking paradox: the company talking most loudly about AI is the one losing ground on the scoreboard.

With Amazon's BSA Agent Policy taking effect in 3 days, an industry expert argues the review cap and new rules are closing the third-party AI data pipeline for good.