VAB's March 2026 survey of 2,319 U.S. adults finds voters nearly 9x more likely to trust TV news than social media for political information, with AI ranked lowest.

The Luxembourg court confirmed Amazon broke GDPR but still annulled the €746M fine. Here is the detailed legal reasoning behind each argument that worked.

A Google.org-backed study of 28.6 million fraud signals overturns the idea that older adults are most at risk online. Here is what the data actually shows about age and scams.

A federal appeals court vacated the FTC's cease-and-desist order against Intuit over TurboTax "free" ads, ruling internal FTC adjudication of deceptive advertising claims is unconstitutional.

DeepIntent launches Helix on March 19, 2026, a healthcare marketing cloud with MCP support covering 3.7M providers and 240M patient lives for HIPAA-compliant campaigns.

The White House yesterday released a seven-pillar national AI policy framework urging Congress to preempt state AI laws, protect children online, and leave copyright questions to courts.

K-Pop Demon Hunters won two Oscars in March 2026. VAB data shows cinema builds fandom-aligned audiences that outperform digital channels on brand recall and purchase.

The shift from SEO to AAIO signals a new era where websites must serve both humans and autonomous AI systems.

The button for audience suggestions is gone and the language indicating suggestions would be "prioritized" was removed. What does this mean?

European Parliament committees vote 101-9 to postpone AI Act high-risk system deadlines to December 2027 and August 2028, replacing a flexible Commission trigger with fixed dates.

SPIR on March 19 updated its standard for Czech online publishers to opt out of AI text and data mining, adding real-time response crawlers to the scope of the robots.txt framework.

Publicis tells clients to drop The Trade Desk after a failed audit; OpenAI tests an ads manager; Google's health AI handles a billion queries a day; Smartly bids for INCRMNTAL.

Sweden's Konsumentverket flags persistent ad disclosure failures in influencer marketing, with fines up to 1.5M kronor and EU Digital Fairness Act due in 2026.

Alliance Digitale released on March 12, 2026 a Guide to CTV Technical Standards covering VAST, OpenRTB 2.6, ads.txt, sellers.json for the French digital TV market.

Opera GX arrives on Linux on March 19, 2026, bringing RAM and network limiters, a zero-log VPN, built-in ad blocking, and Twitch and Discord integration to 34 million users.

Google Merchant Center now requires buy buttons to be greyed out on out-of-stock product pages, replacing the previous practice of hiding or removing them entirely.

Walmart's Instant Checkout in ChatGPT converted three times worse than click-out links. Now Sparky is coming to ChatGPT and Gemini to replace it.

Google is testing AI headline rewrites in Search using similar language to the earlier Discover test that became a feature.

FIFA approved ads during 2026 World Cup water breaks across 104 matches. New LoopMe data shows 73% of US consumers will notice ads, but only 30% plan to watch. 157 chars.

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