77% of 34,208 video podcasts carry no advertising, MillionPodcasts finds
Review counts track audience at 0.84 while star ratings sit at -0.06, leaving buyers pricing inventory on the wrong signal. Sponsors follow scale, not quality.
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Perion EBITDA drops 61% to $2.8m as open web pulls revenue down 5%
Contribution ex-TAC guidance top end fell $10m to $225m, squeezing buyers planning H2 DOOH budgets. Two signed agency deals now start contributing late in Q3.
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15% of AI page fetchers in Europe reached disallowed URLs, TollBit finds
ChatGPT-User hit blocked pages on nearly half the European sites naming it, while 9% of those sites disallow Claude-User. Cloudflare's defaults shift Sept 15.
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Jane Street loses $15bn as leveraged AI bets collapse in July
Situational Awareness holdings fell from a peak near $45bn to about $10bn, and trading revenue still cleared $40bn. What breaks if AI capex financing tightens?
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ChatGPT Free and Go users in Europe face ads from later this month
Selection starts with the current chat topic, general location and device type only. Plus and Pro stay ad-free. An opt-in prompt for personalised ads follows.
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Ad tech repriced everything this week except the thing doing the counting
Ad tech's week in numbers: AI Max carries 72% more invalid traffic, The Trade Desk falls 22%, Comscore cuts $25 million and Perplexity blocks Time's agent ads.
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Everything on the second monitor, sorted into four groups
Sixteen terms from across the stack, sorted into four groups of four. One group is tighter than it looks, and it is not the one you will reach for first.
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Campaign Manager 360 API adds 60-second synchronous report queries
Developers can skip preconfigured Report resources and pull JSON directly. Floodlight activities separately gain 14 categories, now mandatory for attribution.
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Ledisa faces $5m class action over GLP-1 patches with no GLP-1
Suit filed August 13 in California's Eastern District says the patches were relabelled Berberine. Doctors cite molecule size. Does a rename cure the claims?
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Mars faces class action over quinoa listed under 2% on Seeds of Change pack
Complaint puts damages above $5m and covers a nationwide class of buyers, filed August 12 in San Diego. Front-of-pack ingredient order now faces a jury test.
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RE/MAX gains Golfweek's 2 million monthly users on merger vote day
Publisher's parent shed 22 million monthly visitors last quarter; RE/MAX brings 149,267 agents and a pending sale to Real. Who sells the ads inside the new hub?
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Norway forces SATS to let gym members object to check-in photos
Twenty-six complaints from Finnish and Norwegian members pushed Datatilsynet to act. SATS has until September 11, 2026 to rewrite its member photo notices.
