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.

Memberships are recurring monthly payments a viewer makes to a single channel in exchange for perks. How the six levels, loyalty badges and 70% split work.

Brand deal: a paid agreement where a creator makes and publishes content promoting an advertiser. How pricing, usage rights, disclosure and platform tools work.

Affiliate marketing pays a publisher a commission only when a referred visitor buys. How the tracking links, cookie windows and last-click disputes now work.

The Meta consent judgment copies the 1998 tobacco settlement almost clause for clause. That precedent is instructive, and not in the way the states may intend.

Google's Demand Gen tools aim to shorten the path from discovery to conversion while making it easier to scale creative across campaigns.

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Paid search, social and measurement vocabulary, with one group that resists sorting until the last two tiles.

AI agents gained write access to live ad campaigns, Meta signed a $17.2 billion teen settlement and machine traffic passed humans in the week of August 24-28.

Google continues making changes to AI Mode in recent days. Today, Brodie Clark spotted another test google is now showing an ads carousel within the content itself, in addition to the ad unit at the bottom of the page. This looks new, since Google previously…

Google is replacing site reputation abuse penalties in the EEA with a system that can rank affected site sections independently.

Google explains whether named updates contain actionable signals and shares where site owners may look for them.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and 100+ organizations warn AI-enabled cyberattacks are accelerating. What should SEOs know about the risks to search visibility?

OpenAI, Shopify, and Cloudflare are putting WebMCP into live products, giving AI agents a structured way to use websites without relying on visual clicks.

A bookstore's AI-altered ad exposed a gap most marketing teams haven't fixed – nobody owns what AI changes after approval. Here's how to close it.

91% of programmatic traders say missing show-level data limits CTV campaigns. Coverage now reaches beyond Gracenote's SSP ties. Will linear ad budgets shift?

iOS SDK 18.1.0 adds silent Limited Login refresh and default app switching; apps upgrading past 18.0.2 shift logins into the Facebook app with no code change.

Flight alerts span 180 countries and five loyalty programs open award data, while hotels keep merchant of record - and EU availability remains an open question.