Amazon billing, pricing, and fee changes collide with The Trade Desk identity overhaul and dentsu's leadership reset in the week's most consequential ad industry moves.
by Luis Rijo
NBC Sports has quietly handed control of a key part of its audio business to an outside technology partner, and the choice reveals how seriously major sports broadcasters are now treating podcast monetization.
Adthena analyzed 29.1 million queries across 10+ industries to map how ads perform in Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT - here are the numbers.
Google's Data Manager API replaces fragmented audience and conversion pipelines with one unified ingestion point across Google Ads, DV360, and Analytics. Deadlines are in motion.
Amazon Ads moves to proceeds billing April 15, ending credit card perks and a 60-day working capital window sellers used to fund launches and seasonal ad spend.
Brandwatch's 2026 report surveyed 1,028 marketers and found 75% still struggle to understand their audiences, while 84% name AI the top skill to master.
Nestlé's 413,793 stolen KitKat bars sparked a brand response campaign built on batch-code tracking and cross-brand social media trendjacking that marketers are watching closely.
Google's open-source YouTube Topic Insights tool uses Gemini AI and the YouTube Data API to automate trend discovery and top creator identification for advertisers.
SISTRIX's March 2026 monthly review reveals Google's AI infrastructure dominance, a CTR collapse from 27% to 11% at position one, and Gemini traffic tripling in H2 2025.