Google denies a broader Smart Bidding update ahead of the August 17 bidding change, Apple bars home services from Maps ads, and Netflix trims viewership data.

Media buyers get programmatic entry to airports, bus shelters and billboards from Mexico City to Monterrey, as VIOOH's Latin American buildout gathers pace.

Nielsen's panel of 3,500 households found daily viewing steady at 3 hours 36 minutes while cable led growth, raising questions about streaming's next move.

The format was previously sold only through direct insertion orders, so opening a programmatic path changes how buyers plan and access this desktop inventory.

Search rivals and AI chatbots can request Google's anonymised query data starting January 2027, though Android AI rivals wait until August 2027 for full access.

Most AI visibility dashboards measure the wrong number. What to track instead: presence, recommendation share, and brand accuracy.

Google won't index content anyone could write. Learn how commodity content triggers crawled-currently not indexed, and what to fix first.

A 100-product benchmark found nearly a third of agent sessions hit access errors, pushing 58 percent of pricing lookups to unverified third parties instead.

Nearly 40 draft measures would make Category 1 and 2A services ban fraud accounts and verify financial advertisers. Feedback closes 2 October, rules land 2027.

Auditors now visit clinics in person to confirm screens work, part of supplemental checks for a channel where pharma spend hit 1.2 billion dollars in 2025.

Google says many Search Console "errors" don't need fixing, saying that many times there's nothing to fix.

Reviewed evidence shows body-only rewrites can lower a page top-10 presence 16%, yet vendors keep selling citation gains the studies never confirm per engine.

Pre-launch creative scoring lands inside a 150-person independent shop as it absorbs an AI predictor, raising the question of who consolidates ad tech next.

Deal routes brand campaigns into GIFs and stickers reaching over 1 billion daily users, as Koddi and LiveRamp extend commerce media well beyond retail sites.

The EU orders Google to share its search data and open up Android to rival AI assistants, as a Swedish court and a Nielsen antitrust ruling reshape the week.

Counterfeit clothing, unsafe toys and dangerous cosmetics stayed online for weeks, the Commission found. AliExpress has until October 20 to file a remedy plan.

Merchant Center sellers worldwide see Shopping rules combined in September 2026, though Google says enforcement holds steady. What really changes for feeds?

The Model Context Protocol connects AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to your own marketing data. Here’s what to plug in, how it works across your team, and why data quality decides the payoff.

Google is moving Local Services Ads into Google Ads as Performance Max pay-per-lead campaigns, with bidding, reporting, and management changes beginning August 2026.

AI search tools answer customer questions about local businesses, and those answers can be wrong. Here's how to test what AI says about your business.