ChatGPT's first ad tech partner, Netflix's Conversion API, The Trade Desk's margin scrutiny, Google's TCF v2.3 enforcement, and search volatility defined this week.

Google published a new web crawling overview on March 3, 2026, detailing how Googlebot discovers, renders, and manages site access across 30+ years of web indexing.

noyb survey of 510 DPOs across 28 jurisdictions finds the EU Digital Omnibus misses what compliance professionals actually need to cut GDPR workload.

A San Francisco court on March 3 entered a final $50 million judgment against Meta over Facebook user data shared with third-party developers, imposing sweeping new compliance obligations lasting three years.

Mastercard and Google yesterday introduced Verifiable Intent, a cryptographic trust standard for AI agent payments, backed by IBM, Adyen, Fiserv, and six other partners.

Eight in ten B2B marketing leaders say AI visibility is a blind spot, with only 10% able to link AI touchpoints to revenue, new Agentcy research finds.

AI bots crawl retail sites 198x more per visit than Google, bot traffic rose 5.4x in 2025, and 80% of websites are exposed to agent spoofing, per new research.

Paramount CEO David Ellison confirmed Paramount+ and HBO Max will combine into a single streaming platform, creating a ~200 million subscriber rival to Netflix following the WBD acquisition.