Meta faces federal suit over $50,000-per-speech gag on its own whistleblower
Wynn-Williams filed suit June 25, 2026, citing 15 months under an arbitration gag carrying $50,000 per violation. Can a federal court vacate the interim award?
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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Google kills 3 enhanced conversion methods, replaces all with single toggle
Starting June 2026, enhanced conversions for web and leads merge into one on/off setting. Legacy API uploads blocked from June 15, affecting developer tokens.
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ReelShort beats Netflix daily time with short drama installs up 913% in LATAM
ReelShort users spent 35.7 minutes daily on the app, outpacing Netflix by 11 minutes. LATAM installs surged 913% YoY; 67% of app marketers are already testing.
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CTV gains 8% viewing time as smart TVs reach 82% of US homes
MRI-Simmons and eMarketer show CTV at 2h37m daily, up 8%. Freewheel finds 86% of digital ad views land on CTV and 57% of first post-ad actions happen on mobile.
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Liz Reid says paywalls kill traffic and AI mode favors niche publishers
In a June 26 podcast, the Google Search VP argues personalization surfaces specialist content - and that opt-out controls remain unresolved for most publishers.
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YouTube blocks live chat users for up to 24 hours with 6 timeout intervals
Creators can suspend chat participants for intervals from 10 seconds to 24 hours. Moderator roles, spam holds, and 100-plus language support define the system.
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Google drops Subscription Linking help page then restores it on June 25
Policy covers AI Mode, AI Overviews, Discover and Gemini; abuse risks suspension. The document briefly vanished after June 23 before returning two days later.
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Google expands financial ad verification to 24 EU and EEA countries
Google announced June 23 it will require financial ad verification across all EU and EEA states, with enforcement starting July 23, 2026 for 24 new countries.
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The user agent strings every SEO and site owner needs right now
A technical reference for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Bingbot - the exact user agent strings shaping how AI crawls the web in 2026.
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Google quietly unlocks custom labels for Demand Gen campaigns
Google Merchant Center now supports custom labels 0-4 in Demand Gen campaigns, giving advertisers product-level segmentation tools for bidding and reporting.
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The B2B buying formula LinkedIn says AI just scrambled
LinkedIn research shows 94% of B2B buying groups now use LLMs before contacting sales. AI retrieval and peer-based defensibility now determine who gets chosen.
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Amazon's $48 billion India bet: what the numbers actually mean
Amazon today commits $48 billion to India by 2030, adding $13 billion for AWS data centers in Mumbai and Hyderabad, with custom AI chips and 100+ delivery stations.
