Spotify gives all users video on/off switch starting this month
Spotify today announced new video controls rolling out globally, letting Premium, Basic, and free-tier users toggle Canvas visuals and podcast videos through Settings.
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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Joybuy is quietly winning Google Shopping auctions while European CPCs shift
Joybuy entered EU Google Shopping in March 2026, outranking rivals faster than Temu did. Meanwhile, smec data shows Shopping CPC up 10% YoY and conversions crashing.
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DV360 gets new reach overlap dimensions and instant inventory reports
Google today announced upcoming Display & Video 360 updates adding campaign-level reach overlap dimensions and instant access to Inventory Availability reports, estimated for April 2026.
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xAI sues Colorado to block AI bias law, claiming First Amendment violations
xAI filed a federal lawsuit today against Colorado to block SB24-205, an AI bias law set to take effect June 30, 2026, asserting First Amendment violations.
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AI Digital relaunches Elevate to fight black-box programmatic chaos
AI Digital relaunched its Elevate platform on April 7, 2026, offering agencies a vendor-neutral AI intelligence layer across 12+ DSPs and 15+ data partners.
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LiveRamp and Akkio team up to bring conversational AI into marketing measurement
LiveRamp and Akkio partnered on April 7, 2026, to embed Akkio's AI chat engine into LiveRamp's measurement reports, enabling natural-language data queries for marketers.
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In-store media's measurement problem is not what you think
ISM and Catalyst Media Consulting release a framework called Shopper Purchase Rate that replaces digital attribution with product movement metrics for in-store retail media.
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Google AdSense to auto-enroll publishers in consent optimization
Google AdSense will auto-activate consent message optimization for EEA publishers on May 7, 2026, unless publishers opt out within the 30-day review window.
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NYT and Guardian win big as Google's March 2026 core update wraps
SISTRIX data shows nytimes.com and theguardian.com as top winners in Google's March 2026 core update, while usnews.com and finance.yahoo.com fell sharply in VI.
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How computer science could fix Google's data monopoly problem
A new legal paper proposes using computer science algorithms to implement Google's court-ordered data-sharing remedies efficiently and without discrimination.
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Consent Mode V2 enforcement is silently breaking Google Ads conversions
Google's July 2025 Consent Mode V2 enforcement is wiping attribution data for UK and EEA advertisers - with no warning and no recovery option for lost data.
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Trade Desk under siege while Amazon tightens its grip on sellers
The Trade Desk faces holdco backlash, Amazon rewires seller billing and streaming pricing, LinkedIn is sued over browser surveillance, and Google's March core update ends.
