Meta’s new value rules for audiences let you bid more or less for custom audience groups. Here’s how they work and when to use them.

Yelp’s AI Assistant shifts discovery toward direct booking, increasing competition at conversion.

A distributed network of AI agents now manages eight figures in monthly ad spend, built on years of live campaign data most companies never get.

Over-relying on SEO tools means losing context, optimizing for green ticks, and missing what actually matters. Here's why raw data still counts.

New data from 3,981 domains across 115 prompts, 14 countries, and 4 AI search engines.

Three new agentic safety and policy features integrated into Ads Advisor will help protect and streamline your Google Ads account.

Microsoft's new tools aim to help advertisers stay visible and competitive as AI agents increasingly drive discovery and purchasing decisions.

Google Ads now enables call recording by default for eligible AI-qualified call leads, changing how call conversions are evaluated in the U.S. and Canada.

Google uses AI to qualify call leads, helping advertisers optimize for real conversions instead of call length.

Digiday reports an early ChatGPT ads manager build now shows $3-$5 CPC bids for some pilot advertisers, as OpenAI continues expanding its ad tools.

Bleav appoints Maryann Alvarez and Gretchen Waller as Directors of Partnerships to scale podcast and sports media advertising across its 500+ show network.

Google expanded Ads Advisor with three agentic safety features: real-time policy reviews, 24/7 security monitoring, and instant certifications via Gemini.

SearchApi asks Texas court to dismiss SerpApi's trade secret and copyright claims, saying the suit is retaliation for refusing an acquisition in December 2025.

Tests and antitrust filings reveal Google AI Mode draws from FastSearch - a cached, lighter index separate from the live web powering traditional Search results

YouTube is stopping push notifications for inactive 'All' subscribers, based on experiment results showing fewer viewers turned off notifications entirely.

Innovid's Hypermode is now generally available, slashing social campaign setup time by up to 80% across Meta, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, and TikTok platforms.

California releases unredacted court evidence showing Amazon coordinated retail price increases with Levi's, Walmart, Chewy, Target, and other major brands.

Google Ad Manager launched focused banner ads on March 9, 2026, a beta format that blurs article text mid-scroll until readers tap a button to resume reading.

ARD, BDZV, MVFP, VAUNET and ZDF publish a joint framework demanding copyright protection, media law and competition rules to govern AI platforms in Germany.

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