Xumo today expands with Gracenote and IRIS.TV, giving advertisers program-level and frame-level signals across 2,000 FAST channels on 30 platforms worldwide.

Criteo today disclosed over 2,000 brands advertising on ChatGPT, added three new markets, and launched Prompt Smart Ads showing 4x higher spend after activation

Google Street View launches in Georgia, covering 13,000 km of roads, mountain passes, wine regions, and UNESCO heritage sites on Google Maps and Google Earth.

AudienceProject today opens Elevate to broadcasters and publishers in 10 markets, after two years of supporting large platforms with audience measurement tools.

Adobe at Cannes Lions 2026 announced CX Enterprise partnerships with Accenture, Omnicom, Stagwell, WPP, Anthropic, and Microsoft to deploy agentic AI at scale.

NIQ today expanded its GeoPurchase purchase-based audience product to Poland, Belgium, Mexico, and Indonesia, bringing geo-targeted FMCG data to 11 countries.

Google's new messaging to CMOs reiterates that GEO is still SEO and states that third-party tools have no access to its internal metrics.

Samsung Ads and Amazon Ads today activated shoppable CTV ads on Samsung TV Plus, letting viewers add products to an Amazon cart via their TV remote control.

Google Ads launched promotion mode, Smart Bidding Exploration for Performance Max, and a bidding target overhaul set for August 17, 2026. Ginny Marvin explains.

TikTok Shop's Smart Promotion charges sellers a fixed 3.5% GMV fee in regular periods and 4.5% during campaigns, replacing the legacy co-funded model for most.

About half of U.S. adults use AI chatbots, and 60% read AI Overviews, but more predict AI will hurt society than help it.

Google, Shopify, and browser makers are backing a new Cloudflare PACT protocol for AI agent trust "on Cloudflare's network"

Two senior Google AI researchers, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer and AlphaFold's John Jumper, are leaving for OpenAI and Anthropic within the same week.

Google is expanding its mandatory financial advertiser verification program across the EU to help people find services they can trust.

On day one of Cannes Lions 2026, OpenAI courted advertisers as Criteo passed 2,000 brands on ChatGPT, shoppable TV spread, and Google reworked Smart Bidding.

Clarecast's warning signals appear 12–18 months before AI-driven layoffs hit. Fix your AI ROI story now or risk making the budget case against your own team.

Google's John Mueller and Martin Splitt explained the downsides of parallelizing content via markdown for AI SEO.

A Similarweb report links AI recommendations to more site visits and deeper engagement, with most downstream traffic arriving via branded search.

Transform your SEO reporting with KPIs that matter to executives: organic pipeline, CAC, ROI, and revenue metrics that survive budget cuts and AI Overview.

Google requires financial advertisers to complete new compliance checks or risk losing the ability to run some EU ads.