TikTok Shop's Shop Performance Score gates seller visibility, settlement speed, and affiliate marketing access through six metrics and four benefit levels.

Google's Merchant Center for Agencies guide details two user roles, three account setup paths, and a label permission model for managing global client access.

YouTube Shorts is removing the dislike button and replacing it with a heart icon while adding 2x speed playback and a cleaner player in a June 2026 update.

Demand Gen is getting Gemini-powered creative recommendations, enhanced video optimization and new measurement tools.

Google Finance exits beta globally with investment portfolios, scheduled AI briefings, and a new Android app featuring real-time data and AI research tools.

Australia's ACCC issued four infringement notices to HSK United for strikethrough pricing and a false returns policy on Pain Free Aussies and Modern Aussies.

Earmax Media used Magellan AI to grow podcast ad conversion rates more than 12x in two years, tracking 328 purchases for travel packages priced up to GBP5,000.

The IRS now requires ID.me for all online account access, pairing biometric face scans with Social Security numbers and government-issued IDs for US taxpayers.

Zeta Global rearchitects its Data Cloud on Palantir Foundry to connect operational and customer intelligence, targeting over $100M in annual revenue at scale.

England's World Cup match against Ghana cut UK web activity by 25%, delaying up to £12.24m in ecommerce sales, per new data from web host 20i released yesterday.

VAB finds potential voters trust TV news 6x more than social media for political information, with 51% naming social as top source of fake or misleading news.

Meta is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, and the format question is bigger than it appears for creators and advertisers on connected television.

Sky and ITV agreed terms on a £1.6bn merger of broadcast and streaming assets, aiming to build a top-three UK streamer and reshape the TV advertising market.

Observers note Ryanair's famously sarcastic social media tone has grown noticeably quieter in 2026, raising questions about the brand's marketing strategy.

IAB Tech Lab releases final Programmatic Auction Definitions, giving buyers, sellers, and platforms a shared vocabulary for how digital ad auctions operate.

Contentsquare's MCP connector for Dust gives joint customers live access to funnel data, friction scores, and revenue impact analysis inside AI agent workflows.

REI was auto-enrolled by Meta into an AI image tool without its knowledge, producing a deformed bicycle ad on Instagram that ran for a full week before removal.

Covering June 25-26, 2026. A deformed bicycle ad, a £1.6bn UK TV merger, a new shared language for programmatic auctions, and Amazon's expanding commerce data footprint define the final day of Cannes Lions week.

Two new reports reveal why brand-led content gets ignored: 54% of video URLs are over-blocked by keyword filters, and leading with product messaging cuts view.

Google warns that websites can expose AI agents to hidden traps, raising new threat as agentic AI begins navigating the open web.