October retail sales increased 0.6% month-over-month and 5% year-over-year, showing momentum ahead of the 2025 holiday season when spending should exceed $1 trillion.
Research comparing workflows of 48 human workers and 4 AI agent frameworks across 16 tasks reveals agents complete work 88.3% faster at 90-96% lower cost, but struggle with quality.
Australia bans social media for children under 16 starting December 10, 2025, affecting Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and Kick, with platforms facing $49.5M fines.
Stripe CEO reveals US software startups now grow significantly faster than European peers since mid-2023, driven by faster technology adoption patterns.
ACCC announced Black Friday enforcement sweep on November 10 targeting misleading pricing claims including countdown timers, site-wide sales exclusions, and strikethrough prices.
LiveRamp transferred the User Context Protocol to IAB Tech Lab on November 3, enabling standardized embedding exchanges between autonomous advertising agents.
Amazon filed federal lawsuit against Perplexity on November 4, 2025, alleging the AI startup's Comet browser violated computer fraud laws through unauthorized access.
October retail sales increased 0.6% month-over-month and 5% year-over-year, showing momentum ahead of the 2025 holiday season when spending should exceed $1 trillion.
Alphabet Q1 2026: Google Network revenue dropped 4% to $6.97B as AI search features accelerate a structural shift of traffic away from the open web publishers.
VIOOH partners with We OOH to put 320 Brazilian DOOH screens and 1.3 billion monthly impressions into programmatic reach across 16 major Brazilian cities.
Google AdSense vignette ads can trigger the back-button hijacking it now penalizes in organic search results from June 15, exposing publishers to dual risk.
IAS launched Total TV on April 27, 2026, giving advertisers show, genre, and rating data across Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount, and Prime Video CTV inventory.
Google admitted Polymarket gambling bets appeared in Google News by mistake, exposing a wider debate on prediction markets, insider trading, and user losses.
Meta rolled out a no-cost, one-click Conversions API setup for web, creating a server-side connection alongside the Meta Pixel with automatic deduplication.
Consumer Federation of America filed a class action against Meta on April 21, 2026, alleging Facebook profits from scam ads while misleading District users.
SiriusXM Media is now the exclusive U.S. audio ad rep for YouTube, giving brands guaranteed impressions across 212 million monthly listeners starting fall 2026.
October retail sales increased 0.6% month-over-month and 5% year-over-year, showing momentum ahead of the 2025 holiday season when spending should exceed $1 trillion.
Research comparing workflows of 48 human workers and 4 AI agent frameworks across 16 tasks reveals agents complete work 88.3% faster at 90-96% lower cost, but struggle with quality.
Australia bans social media for children under 16 starting December 10, 2025, affecting Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and Kick, with platforms facing $49.5M fines.
Stripe CEO reveals US software startups now grow significantly faster than European peers since mid-2023, driven by faster technology adoption patterns.
ACCC announced Black Friday enforcement sweep on November 10 targeting misleading pricing claims including countdown timers, site-wide sales exclusions, and strikethrough prices.
LiveRamp transferred the User Context Protocol to IAB Tech Lab on November 3, enabling standardized embedding exchanges between autonomous advertising agents.
Amazon filed federal lawsuit against Perplexity on November 4, 2025, alleging the AI startup's Comet browser violated computer fraud laws through unauthorized access.