Honey targeted minors in advertising while leaking business codes
Investigation reveals Honey collected data from children despite policy claims, while systematically leaking private discount codes from small businesses without consent.
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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China mandates new rules targeting platform pricing and behavioral tracking compliance
China releases comprehensive pricing regulations for internet platforms requiring PIPL compliance for behavioral pricing by April 2026.
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Google sues scraper while being the internet's biggest scraper itself
Google filed a December 19 lawsuit against SerpApi for scraping search results, yet the company scrapes billions of web pages for AI training without compensation.
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John Lewis tops AI's Christmas shopping recommendations as ChatGPT reshapes retail
John Lewis achieved the highest visibility in ChatGPT's shopping recommendations this Christmas, outranking over 1,000 retailers as artificial intelligence transforms how consumers discover products.
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Deezer's marketing partner hit with €1 million in processor violations
France's data protection authority fined Israeli marketing platform Optimove €1 million on December 11, 2025, for systematic GDPR violations affecting 9.8 million French users in a breach exposing Deezer customer data.
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YouTube's TV interface gets its first major makeover in years
YouTube redesigns television playback interface with repositioned controls, new description button, and improved subscriber experience across TV screens.
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Google clarifies JavaScript rendering for error pages in December documentation update
Google updates JavaScript SEO documentation on December 18, 2025, explaining how Googlebot processes non-200 HTTP status codes and canonical URLs.
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AI crawlers now consume 4.2% of web traffic as internet grows 19% in 2025
Cloudflare's 2025 analysis reveals AI bots originated 4.2% of HTML requests while global internet traffic expanded 19%, with post-quantum encryption reaching 52% adoption.
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TikTok data shows beauty brands operate at 50% of optimal spending levels
TikTok partnered with NIQ for a two-year marketing mix modeling study revealing Romanian beauty brands dramatically underinvest in the platform while achieving superior ROI efficiency.
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Amazon quietly shifts Brand Store ratings to prioritize sales over time spent
Amazon replaced Brand Store quality ratings with sales-based scoring on December 12, 2025, abandoning engagement metrics for revenue attribution.
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Amazon DSP adds content exclusion categories for brand suitability control
Amazon DSP introduces content exclusion categories enabling advertisers to block specific topics across Twitch and third-party inventory through unified controls.
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YouTube gives creators an AI image editor to jazz up posts
YouTube integrates Nano Banana, Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash image editing model, into Posts feature for creators in four countries starting December 2025.
