ChatGPT’s desktop browser can now use WebMCP site tools, giving supported websites a structured way to let agents search, edit, and complete tasks on-page.

Google is rolling out hotel booking in AI Mode with Google Pay checkout. Flight alerts and rewards pricing are available in supported markets.

Drive high-quality leads and acquire customers with new messaging, travel, and creative features in YouTube’s August Demand Gen Drop.

Meta advertisers lose placement controls as value rules cap bid cuts at 90%, while ex-Meta staff export the ad playbook to OpenAI, TikTok, Amazon and Roku.

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. This grid leans on where money enters and leaves a media buy, and one group hides behind an entirely ordinary word.

Studio analytics report aggregate clicks and sales only, never per-video results, for US creators tagging in Shorts and livestreams. Who absorbs the blind spot?

Tokens are the units of text AI models read, write and bill by. How subword encoding works, why two vendors count the same sentence differently, what it costs.

Paid installs now run at 0.72 for every organic one worldwide, up 26% in six months, while US CPM reached $20.54. Thinner margins arrive just before Q4 bidding.

Super Chat is YouTube's paid highlighted message in live chat. How the price tiers, pin times and the 70% revenue split work, and why it now pauses advertising.

A prompt is the text and data sent to a language model to get an output. How prompts are assembled, where the term came from, and why they now carry ad budgets.

Nozzle logged near total goto coverage across residential IP providers on August 26, and says head requests are blocked. Rate limits decide what breaks next.

Asset Studio multimodal video hits general availability while messaging app chats enter testing. The 14% tag gateway figure rests on finance-vertical data.

No fill is an ad request that returns no advertisement. How the empty response is signaled across ad servers, OpenRTB and video players, and what happens next.

Passback is the tag a demand source returns when it cannot fill an impression, handing the slot back to the publisher's ad server or on to the next network.

Backfill is the demand that fills an ad slot when higher priority buyers pass. How the fallback is decided, where it sits in the stack, and why it is contested.

Negotiation and contracting rank first as a chance to cut waste for 60% of the 78 client-side marketers surveyed. Bundled agency fees stay the harder problem.

As AI takes over more retrieval and synthesis, consumers do less searching and more verification. That changes what information needs to survive between retrieval and belief.

Payments reach $17.1bn across 51 jurisdictions and under-18s lose visible like counts by default. Compliance lands in six months, tighter still if rivals sign.

Algorithmic media buying is the use of models to price and place each ad impression automatically. How auction-time bidding works, and where it breaks down.

Conversational assistant, frequency controls and lift studies arrive in closed beta, limiting which traders can test them now. Wider availability stays undated.