Kroger Precision Marketing integrates with Display & Video 360 this week, enabling SKU-level conversion reporting on YouTube and third-party inventory for CPG brands.

Google yesterday introduced the Gemini advantage in Google Marketing Platform at NewFront 2026, launching live sports bidding, Confidential Publisher Match with Roku, and Ads Advisor for all users.

AdRoll's Q1 2026 report reveals retargeting CPMs surged 18% while prospecting dropped 11%, marking a structural budget shift toward CTV and DOOH ad channels.

RTB House's "Before They Buy" 2026 study reveals that 60% of US shoppers browse without a fixed item in mind, with Gen Z taking twice as long to decide as Boomers.

Bing now lets you click a query to view cited pages or a page to see its grounding queries, with multiple queries and pages linked together.

Google will soon require merchants running Shopping ads featuring certain political content to verify their accounts as election advertisers.

Google started rolling out the March 2026 spam update. The update applies globally and to all languages, with rollout taking a few days.

Google updated its Discussion Forum and Q&A Page structured data docs with new properties, including a way to label AI- and machine-generated content.

Reddit is launching new Dynamic Product Ad formats and a Shopify integration to help retailers tap into the platform's audience.

Google says this is a standard spam update. It’s rolling out across all languages and locations and may take only a few days.

Google released the March 2026 spam update on March 24 at 12:18 PDT, targeting global search spam across all languages. Rollout may take days.

A+E Global Media cut ad server requests 84% and lifted impressions 39% by switching to pod-level programmatic auctions via Index Exchange and FreeWheel's OpenRTB 2.6 integration.

Nexxen DSP today unveiled a full-funnel AI performance suite combining in-flight optimization, ghost bidding incrementality, and nexAI algorithms to connect CTV exposure to conversions.

Pinterest launches Promote a Pin on March 24, 2026, letting creators and small businesses boost content without advertising experience using AI targeting across 619 million users.

ACME.BOT launches a $49/month AI content platform promising automated keyword research, topic cluster building, and direct CMS publishing for growing marketing teams.

WordPress.com added write capabilities to its MCP integration on March 20, 2026, giving AI agents 19 new tools to draft posts, manage pages, comments, and media.

Kochava today opened StationOne to public beta, adding an IAB Tech Lab AAMP workspace that lets buyers test agentic ad workflows built on OpenDirect 2.1 without risking real spend.

Botify launched Agentic Feeds on March 24, 2026, automating AI-optimized product data as OpenAI and Google expand shopping agent protocols across retail.

Turkey's KVKK issued Decision 2026/347 on February 18, requiring data controllers to keep consent and clarification texts strictly separate under Law No. 6698.