Ads per session on Instagram rose 8% year over year and video gained 10 points of placement share. Pinterest daily users grew 16% ahead of its own earnings.

Over 1,000 iOS listings sit at 4+ and 57 fell four tiers at once, leaving media buyers screening mobile app inventory on a declared signal that keeps moving.

AI token costs turn into agency margin as holdcos push principal media, while Magnite caps 2027 agentic ad spend near $700m and EU Article 50 takes effect.

Germany's automated parcel network climbs from 18,500 sites to over 30,000 by 2030. Two-thirds of German shoppers already resell. What does that do to delivery?

Businesses sell on social at 63% while only 45% of shoppers buy there, and paid posts sway just 37%. What a 29,000-shopper study signals for 2026 ad budgets.

Satellite ISP owed $1.5bn on notes that matured August 1 with $61.2m cash left. Rural households and in-store network contracts now ride on an enterprise pivot.

Four visibility settings gate who sees a linked account, and Canada is excluded at launch. Whether listening signals reach Promoted Places buyers is unstated.

Complaint alleges 90% of Google Ads demand flows only through AdX, squeezing rival exchanges. Nasdaq-listed plaintiff wants treble damages and a jury trial.

Snapchat's Spotlight feature will no longer recommend wholly AI-generated videos in favor of promoting human-authored experiences.

Seven-day averaging replaces per-day limits on live campaigns with no opt-out. Google caps single-day overspend at twice the daily figure. OpenAI names no cap.

Nearly 70 percent of use sits in only 20 workflows, a narrow base for buyers weighing agent claims. OpenAI models now feed the Toronto platform's core stack.

WooCommerce Social Login WordPress plugin enables unauthenticated attackers to gain complete control of ecommerce sites.

Teads sued Google on August 3 over 6.88 trillion impressions lost to rival exchanges, as Reddit, Suno and EU regulators pressed claims of their own this week.

Setting syntheticContentAttestationStatus to IS_SYNTHETIC triggers labels in the EU, India and New York state. Once written, agencies cannot revert to unset.

Waiting rooms, QuickHD and noise suppression arrive with the browser calls in Meta's July 28 update, widening WhatsApp reach just as Status ads scale globally.

Food and drink revenue beat the Avengers: Endgame record from 2019, and nine titles have opened strongly since March. What does that mean for cinema ad buys?

Tinuiti's Q2 2026 benchmarks show Google search, YouTube, and Instagram spending growth cooling against tougher comparisons, changing how PPC teams plan H2.

Apps abuse Android's Display over other apps permission to fire ads when a call ends, then vanish from the recents list. Can pre-install scans catch them all?

Roughly 10% of Alphabet staff wrote open source code in 2025, and 20,000 outside accounts committed to its projects. Ad tech runs on standards Google seeded.