X's November 5 iOS update automatically loads links before users click, creating invalid traffic that inflates publisher metrics and undermines advertising measurement standards.
by Luis Rijo
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.
Google Maps displays defamation removal notices on German business profiles, showing how many reviews were removed in the past year under German defamation law.
Cyrus Shepard analyzed 400+ sites to find 5 features that predict whether a website gains or loses Google traffic in 2026, from products to proprietary assets.
A Shopify merchant traced 500+ fake carts per hour to a subdomain Shopify controls, exposing a structural gap that custom WAF rules and Cloudflare cannot close.
Google Ads replaces call duration metrics with AI-qualified conversions, filtering spam calls and feeding cleaner signals into Smart Bidding for US and Canada.
Bedrock Platform deploys the world's first containerized DSP bidder inside Index Exchange, eliminating QPS throttling and infrastructure as scale barriers.
ChatGPT ads reach logged-out users, IAB Tech Lab forms a programmatic governance council, SECURE Data Act targets state privacy laws, and Google resets its spam tools.