YouTube VP cites 'a few cents' to justify 10 million Shorts view floor
Amjad Hanif defended entry bars doubling to 8,000 watch hours and 20 million Shorts views. Creators left 890 comments. What actually lands on February 1, 2027?
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ChatGPT gains Yelp table booking as 65% want action in AI local search
Reservations and waitlist joins now close inside the chat for Yelp Guest Manager restaurants, 17 days after Yelp licensed reviews to OpenAI. Who counts them?
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Google Ads gains AI dashboards built from text prompts
Analytics now compares campaigns to anonymized averages from similar businesses, and Ads cards answer typed prompts. No rollout dates or language scope given.
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Disney+ and Hulu gain six iHeartMedia podcasts starting August 14
Weekly episodes begin with Hey Jonas! on August 14 and run through November 2, adding video podcast inventory to two ad-supported streaming apps. Who sells it?
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For anyone who inherited a channel they never asked for
Sixteen terms and four groups of four, drawn from across a working stack. One group reads like a vendor list and isn't, which is where most people slip.
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ChatGPT ads reach Europe as its own crawler ignores publisher blocks
ChatGPT ads reach Europe on the Free and Go plans this month, while TollBit finds 15% of AI page fetchers reached URLs that European publishers had blocked.
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YouTube's own channel tells parents a zero timer removes Shorts from homepage
Creator Insider aired its second screen time interview in 68 days, and YouTube has just set a 20 million Shorts view bar for 2027. Who loses the impressions?
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77% of 34,208 video podcasts carry no advertising, MillionPodcasts finds
Review counts track audience at 0.84 while star ratings sit at -0.06, leaving buyers pricing inventory on the wrong signal. Sponsors follow scale, not quality.
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Perion EBITDA drops 61% to $2.8m as open web pulls revenue down 5%
Contribution ex-TAC guidance top end fell $10m to $225m, squeezing buyers planning H2 DOOH budgets. Two signed agency deals now start contributing late in Q3.
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15% of AI page fetchers in Europe reached disallowed URLs, TollBit finds
ChatGPT-User hit blocked pages on nearly half the European sites naming it, while 9% of those sites disallow Claude-User. Cloudflare's defaults shift Sept 15.
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Jane Street loses $15bn as leveraged AI bets collapse in July
Situational Awareness holdings fell from a peak near $45bn to about $10bn, and trading revenue still cleared $40bn. What breaks if AI capex financing tightens?
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ChatGPT Free and Go users in Europe face ads from later this month
Selection starts with the current chat topic, general location and device type only. Plus and Pro stay ad-free. An opt-in prompt for personalised ads follows.
