Walmart's 1,600 seller names quietly game Google Shopping carousels
Productrise study finds Walmart operates over 1,600 distinct seller names in Google Shopping, cutting perfect carousel diversity by 32% - what it means for marketers.
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Fubo finally gets Dodgers: SportsNet LA deal lands just in time for MLB 2026
Fubo and Spectrum SportsNet LA strike a carriage deal bringing 140+ Dodgers games to streaming subscribers at the 2026 MLB season opener. Here's what it means.
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Nielsen's Gauge suppression fight is really about who controls TV money
Ian Whittaker argues VAB's clash with Nielsen over the February 2026 Gauge delay is a battle for pricing power and TV advertising economics, not methodology.
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Google Business Profile quietly adds offers data to performance metrics docs
Google added offers data to its Business Profile performance metrics help page on March 25, 2026, showing how customers view and click on promotional offers.
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CTV's dirty secret: ads keep running when the TV is off
The HDMI-CEC protocol can detect whether a screen is powered on, but the advertising industry has largely ignored it. The result: over one-third of CTV impressions deliver into the void, costing advertisers an estimated $1 billion a year.
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GDPR's AI training legal battle: regulators converge but still clash
A new academic study maps 19 regulatory guidelines and global enforcement actions on GDPR legal bases for AI training, revealing surface consensus masking deep divergence.
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Music streaming is "minutes away from being obsolete"
Jimmy Iovine warns streaming services face obsolescence as artist-fan disconnect and broken revenue models collide. Here's what the music industry must do next.
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ChatGPT ads hit $100M in six weeks - and OpenAI is just getting started
OpenAI's ChatGPT advertising pilot surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue within six weeks while expanding to over 600 advertisers and global rollout.
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Google fires two algorithm updates in three days as NewFronts shift
Google's March 2026 spam and core updates hit within 72 hours while IAB NewFronts, Amazon AI prompts, and ChatGPT location data reshape digital advertising.
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Judge approves Google RTB settlement forcing new user privacy control
A federal judge approved the Google RTB privacy class-action settlement on March 26, 2026, requiring a new opt-in control limiting data shared in ad auctions, with $21.8M in attorney fees.
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EDPB's damning digest: how 'legitimate interest' fails in practice
EDPB's case digest on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR reveals how controllers routinely fail the legitimate interest test - what advertisers and marketers need to know.
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ChatGPT quietly rolled out location sharing - and local search may never be the same
ChatGPT's March 26 location sharing update lets users share device GPS data for local recommendations, news, and weather - putting OpenAI directly in Google's local search territory.
