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Social   -   Feb 28, 2026 ODDITY Tech's $810M record year is overshadowed by an ad algorithm crisis
Ad algorithm diverts beauty brand's campaigns into lower-quality auctions at abnormal costs.

ODDITY Tech reported record full-year 2025 revenue of $810 million while disclosing a severe disruption in user acquisition costs linked to algorithm changes at its largest advertising partner, triggering a stock collapse that has wiped over 66% of the company's market value in a single month.

by Luis Espada
Search   -   Feb 28, 2026 Google set to test vertical search rivals in EU results as DMA fine looms
Cracked marble floor with Google search bar and EU flag reflection, travel icons rising as smoke.

Google plans to test giving vertical search services top billing in European search results for hotels, flights, and restaurants as EU fine pressure grows under DMA.

by Luis Espada
AI   -   Feb 28, 2026 Anthropic's CEO drew two red lines. The Pentagon said no.
Hand reaching toward a red line dividing AI order from autonomous weapon chaos.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused Pentagon demands to remove AI safeguards on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, triggering an unprecedented supply chain designation threat.

by Luis Espada
Data   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reddit fined £14.47m by UK regulator over children's data failures
Child browsing apps on tablet in the dark, unprotected from harmful online content.

UK's ICO fines Reddit £14.47m for failing to verify users' ages and processing children's data without a lawful basis, marking a significant UK enforcement action.

by Luis Espada
Data   -   Feb 28, 2026 ICO fines Imgur owner MediaLab £247,590 for children's privacy failures
ICO fines Imgur owner MediaLab £247,590 for children's privacy failures

UK's ICO fined MediaLab £247,590 for failing to protect children on Imgur, finding no age checks were in place from September 2021 to September 2025.

by Luis Espada
Display   -   Feb 28, 2026 US programmatic CPMs drop 32.5% in January but grow 23.6% year-over-year
Glowing programmatic bidstream grid with data signals converging on a central auction node.

The US programmatic market entered 2026 with a sharp post-holiday CPM reset, though strong annual growth and rising secure signal adoption point to a maturing ecosystem with shifting identity dynamics.

by Luis Espada
Video   -   Feb 28, 2026 JamLoop's ActiveVoter™ cuts CTV waste by targeting non-voted households
CTV screen split between excluded households and precision voter targeting at dusk.

JamLoop and Aristotle launched ActiveVoter™ on February 26, a CTV product that removes already-voted households from political ad delivery using state early voting files.

by Luis Espada
Data   -   Feb 28, 2026 FreeWheel warns IP-based ad targeting can miss 87% of households
Glowing router at night with tangled cables, symbolizing IP address instability in CTV advertising.

IP addresses match postal records just 13% of the time, according to a CIMM study. FreeWheel explains why deterministic data - not raw IPs - is key to CTV targeting accuracy.

by Luis Espada
Ad algorithm diverts beauty brand's campaigns into lower-quality auctions at abnormal costs.
Social   -   Feb 28, 2026 ODDITY Tech's $810M record year is overshadowed by an ad algorithm crisis

ODDITY Tech reported record full-year 2025 revenue of $810 million while disclosing a severe disruption in user acquisition costs linked to algorithm changes at its largest advertising partner, triggering a stock collapse that has wiped over 66% of the company's market value in a single month.

by Luis Espada
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Social   -   Feb 28, 2026 ODDITY Tech's $810M record year is overshadowed by an ad algorithm crisis
Ad algorithm diverts beauty brand's campaigns into lower-quality auctions at abnormal costs.

ODDITY Tech reported record full-year 2025 revenue of $810 million while disclosing a severe disruption in user acquisition costs linked to algorithm changes at its largest advertising partner, triggering a stock collapse that has wiped over 66% of the company's market value in a single month.

by Luis Espada
Search   -   Feb 28, 2026 Google set to test vertical search rivals in EU results as DMA fine looms
Cracked marble floor with Google search bar and EU flag reflection, travel icons rising as smoke.

Google plans to test giving vertical search services top billing in European search results for hotels, flights, and restaurants as EU fine pressure grows under DMA.

by Luis Espada
AI   -   Feb 28, 2026 Anthropic's CEO drew two red lines. The Pentagon said no.
Hand reaching toward a red line dividing AI order from autonomous weapon chaos.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused Pentagon demands to remove AI safeguards on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, triggering an unprecedented supply chain designation threat.

by Luis Espada
Data   -   Feb 28, 2026 Reddit fined £14.47m by UK regulator over children's data failures
Child browsing apps on tablet in the dark, unprotected from harmful online content.

UK's ICO fines Reddit £14.47m for failing to verify users' ages and processing children's data without a lawful basis, marking a significant UK enforcement action.

by Luis Espada
Data   -   Feb 28, 2026 ICO fines Imgur owner MediaLab £247,590 for children's privacy failures
ICO fines Imgur owner MediaLab £247,590 for children's privacy failures

UK's ICO fined MediaLab £247,590 for failing to protect children on Imgur, finding no age checks were in place from September 2021 to September 2025.

by Luis Espada
Display   -   Feb 28, 2026 US programmatic CPMs drop 32.5% in January but grow 23.6% year-over-year
Glowing programmatic bidstream grid with data signals converging on a central auction node.

The US programmatic market entered 2026 with a sharp post-holiday CPM reset, though strong annual growth and rising secure signal adoption point to a maturing ecosystem with shifting identity dynamics.

by Luis Espada
Video   -   Feb 28, 2026 JamLoop's ActiveVoter™ cuts CTV waste by targeting non-voted households
CTV screen split between excluded households and precision voter targeting at dusk.

JamLoop and Aristotle launched ActiveVoter™ on February 26, a CTV product that removes already-voted households from political ad delivery using state early voting files.

by Luis Espada
Data   -   Feb 28, 2026 FreeWheel warns IP-based ad targeting can miss 87% of households
Glowing router at night with tangled cables, symbolizing IP address instability in CTV advertising.

IP addresses match postal records just 13% of the time, according to a CIMM study. FreeWheel explains why deterministic data - not raw IPs - is key to CTV targeting accuracy.

by Luis Espada
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