SECURE Data Act draws small business coalition backing amid ad tool concerns
Internet for Growth backs SECURE Data Act but warns that restricting digital advertising tools could directly hurt small business hiring and growth in the US.
Luis Rijo
Luís Rijo is a seasoned marketing professional with over 10 years of experience in Digital Marketing, Search, Social, Display, Video, and DOOH. Based in Europe. Also writing in the spend. Reach out via luis@ppc.land
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SiriusXM lands YouTube's audio ad rights in a deal that surprised the industry
SiriusXM Media is now the exclusive U.S. audio ad rep for YouTube, giving brands guaranteed impressions across 212 million monthly listeners starting fall 2026.
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Google Ads API v24: cart data sales view, lead gen conversions, retail filters
Google Ads API v24 adds CartDataSalesView, nine lead gen conversion types, tag-based retail filters, and VTC optimization for Demand Gen and App campaigns.
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Google Maps now shows removed review counts in Germany
Google Maps displays defamation removal notices on German business profiles, showing how many reviews were removed in the past year under German defamation law.
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Google traffic winners in 2026: 5 data-backed traits that set them apart
Cyrus Shepard analyzed 400+ sites to find 5 features that predict whether a website gains or loses Google traffic in 2026, from products to proprietary assets.
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GDPR SAR exposed why a candidate with a panel yes got rejected
A recruiter used a GDPR Subject Access Request after a silent rejection and found her entire panel had voted yes - until a director note changed everything.
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Shopify's myshopify.com gap exposes merchants to unstoppable bot floods
A Shopify merchant traced 500+ fake carts per hour to a subdomain Shopify controls, exposing a structural gap that custom WAF rules and Cloudflare cannot close.
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Connecticut's AI bill targets companion bots, hiring tools and frontier models
Connecticut Substitute Bill No. 5 covers AI companions, automated hiring, frontier model safety obligations and a new Connecticut AI Academy across 37 sections.
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Google Ads now uses AI to qualify phone call leads
Google Ads replaces call duration metrics with AI-qualified conversions, filtering spam calls and feeding cleaner signals into Smart Bidding for US and Canada.
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OpenAI's new OAI-AdsBot is quietly crawling your landing pages
OpenAI launched OAI-AdsBot, a dedicated crawler that checks ChatGPT ad landing pages for policy compliance and relevance without training AI models on the data.
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Expedia's 200 petabytes of traveler data lands in Magnite's programmatic pipes
Expedia Group Advertising and Magnite partner to put 200 petabytes of traveler intent into programmatic channels across streaming, video, display and audio.
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Google Search Console quota blocks expert behind 1,192 technical audits
Mountain Weekly News CEO hits a 5-request daily cap in Google Search Console while manually updating 24 years of safety-critical outdoor gear technical audits.
