Anne Frank Fund loses EU court fight over geo-blocked website
State-of-the-art geo-blocking shields sites from EU copyright liability even when VPNs bypass it, the Court of Justice ruled July 9, giving ad tech clarity.
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Adform gives AI agents 29 read-only skills to query FLOW DSP
Solutions Engineering built 29 skills spanning reporting, forecasting, and taxonomy audits. Read-only by design, they leave campaign edits to the trafficker.
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DuckDuckGo blocks YouTube ads by default on iPhone, Windows, Mac
The feature relies on uBlock Origin's filter lists and is already default for iPhone, Windows and Mac users, with the Android rollout timing still unannounced.
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Fubo gives Alisa Bowen the CEO job as Gandler exits after 11 years
Bowen spent nearly a decade at Disney, most recently leading Disney+, before this July 9 appointment took effect. Shareholders vote on her board seat July 28.
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Microsoft Clarity gives away AI visibility tool rivals charge for
Topic Insights launched July 9 adds competitor gap data for publishers, as AI-referred traffic converts three times higher, raising the content stakes ahead.
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LinkedIn carries 62% of flagged AI content, Pangram data shows
Reddit replies stayed 98.1% human-written while LinkedIn top-level posts hit over 40% fully AI-generated, Pangram data from 1,002,627 scanned posts shows now.
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Meta drops Instagram AI tagging tool as 8 of 10 apps default users in
The tool lasted three days before user pushback forced its removal on July 10, 2026. Whether rival platforms revisit their own opt-out defaults remains open.
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Discover Weekly gains 100 billion streams as Spotify updates Release Radar
Release Radar now reaches almost 9 million weekly listeners with new genre filters. Fresh Finds has launched artists like Doechii and Ice Spice since 2015.
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Google adds How this ad was made AI labels 24 days before EU deadline
The panel covers Search, YouTube and Discover ads edited with generative AI tools, arriving weeks before EU rules force synthetic content disclosure globally.
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Meta faces 6% turnover fine as EU finds Instagram breach addictive design
Brussels says infinite scroll, autoplay and personalised feeds push users toward compulsive use. Meta can contest the finding before regulators rule on a fine.
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Private equity circles Criteo as Google's search grip slips
A 50 percent premium bid for Criteo, a new IAS chief executive, and Munich stripping Google AI Overviews shield defined a turbulent first week of July 2026.
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Google blocks script bypass that hit GTM container restrictions
Containers loaded through unsupported paths like /gtag/js previously ran unrestricted regardless of the container's actual type. Now only the ID governs it.
