YouTube sets May 13 for Brandcast 2026 at Lincoln Center, revealing $100B paid to creators since 2021 and its pitch to capture traditional TV ad budgets.

The next phase of the web depends on shared AI standards, and these four protocols are quickly becoming the foundation businesses need to watch.

The company behind QVC and HSN missed its annual filing deadline on March 31, 2026, warning of $6.6B in debt and substantial doubt about its ability to survive.

A federal class action filed March 31 accuses Perplexity AI, Google, and Meta of secretly collecting AI conversation data, including health and finance queries, via embedded trackers.

IAB Australia's February 2026 sports data shows 13.5 million Australians use sports sites monthly, with BVOD audiences surging 65% in January driven by the Australian Open.

IAB Australia's Data & Privacy 101 with Sarah Kruger covers consent rules, tracking pixels, deidentification, and Privacy Act reforms for digital advertisers.

TikTok Shop marks one year in Germany with seller revenues nearly doubled, 25,000 active sellers, and Gen X holding 37% of total value share - defying platform stereotypes.

Meta should give advertisers the option to define site links at an account level so that we don't need to keep removing suggested links.

Tubular Labs data from November 2025 to February 2026 reveals a 12-hour engagement gap for LATAM news publishers on Instagram, with regional video length patterns across APAC, EMEA, and North America.

New documents reveal how LinkedIn's BrowserGate system maps competitor tool usage, extracts trade secrets, and may breach criminal law across Germany, UK, and the EU.

ProGEO.ai research reveals just 7.4% of Fortune 500 companies have implemented llms.txt, while 92.8% use robots.txt and 53.8% use JSON-LD for AI visibility.

Google vehicle ads now available in Spain, Italy and Germany as of March 2026, requiring Merchant Center data feeds and Performance Max campaigns to serve inventory ads.

New BuzzStream data from 4 million AI citations shows blocking AI crawlers rarely stops ChatGPT or Gemini from citing publisher content - here is why.

Anthropic's March 2026 Economic Index finds users with 6+ months on Claude achieve a 10% higher task success rate, while AI adoption splits along skill lines globally.

Cognitiv launched AudienceGPT on March 26, 2026, a deep learning tool that replaces static audience segments with dynamic, real-time consumer journey profiles.

Google AI Mode now shows sponsored store listings inside product panels and organic quick links above answers, signaling deeper ad monetization of conversational search.

Google Maps now shows live bus locations across all of England via a UK government-backed deal, ending the guesswork for millions of passengers outside London.

LinkedIn will end unscheduled live streams on June 22, 2026, requiring all broadcasts to be planned in advance - even if only minutes ahead.

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VAB's 12th annual streaming report shows 210M U.S. ad-supported viewers, cord-cutter majority, and CTV ad spend reaching 43% of TV budgets in 2026.