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  • Nano Interactive Screen Graph fills missing CTV episode and cast data 12 min read

    Nano Interactive Screen Graph fills missing CTV episode and cast data

    Content sensitivity flags for addiction, abuse and violence reach CTV planners, with segments updating in real time. Coverage, partners and pricing undisclosed.

  • DeepIntent gains Vistar DOOH and point-of-care inventory in its DSP 11 min read

    DeepIntent gains Vistar DOOH and point-of-care inventory in its DSP

    Vistar screens across transit hubs, retail, offices and airports open to pharma buyers 12 weeks after three EHR deals. Can DOOH be measured on script lift?

  • xAI loses Texas venue bid as court finds Grok terms too faint to bind 13 min read

    xAI loses Texas venue bid as court finds Grok terms too faint to bind

    Judge Freeman ruled gray-on-black links on two Grok screens formed no contract at all. Sites skipping checkbox consent now face wider class action exposure.

  • Startpage wins built-in Firefox search slot in 5 European countries 12 min read

    Startpage wins built-in Firefox search slot in 5 European countries

    Firefox users already ran over a billion Startpage queries a year through add-ons. Exa now powers AI answers and NVIDIA opens 2,000 games. Who gets defaults?

  • LiveRamp executives lose merger pay vote by 44.3m votes to 7.3m 10 min read

    LiveRamp executives lose merger pay vote by 44.3m votes to 7.3m

    Merger itself cleared with 51.6m shares in favour, only 60,073 against, sending RampID toward Publicis. The pay rebuke is advisory and does not bind the board.

  • Apple kills EU per-install fee for 5% commission on non-App Store sales 14 min read

    Apple kills EU per-install fee for 5% commission on non-App Store sales

    Developers face a 26% App Store commission and 20% with alternative payments. Every EU developer moves to one set of terms on October 1, locked for 12 months.

  • Google's third spam update of 2026 hits every language and region 9 min read

    Google's third spam update of 2026 hits every language and region

    Rollout began at 09:27 Pacific on August 18 and may run for several days across every market. Ranking swings on August 12 and 13 now have a candidate cause.

  • Explaining GPTBot 10 min read

    Explaining GPTBot

    GPTBot is OpenAI's training crawler for foundation models. The robots.txt token, user agent versions, published IP ranges, blocking rates and the open disputes.

  • Explaining Applebot 10 min read

    Explaining Applebot

    Applebot is Apple's web crawler, indexing pages for Spotlight, Siri and Safari and feeding foundation model training. Three separate robots controls govern it.

  • Explaining Bytespider 9 min read

    Explaining Bytespider

    Bytespider is ByteDance's web crawler, gathering page content for Toutiao search and AI model training. It is among the most blocked and disputed bots online.

  • Explaining Demand Gen 10 min read

    Explaining Demand Gen

    Demand Gen is Google's visual campaign type for image and video ads on YouTube, Discover, Gmail, Maps and the Display Network. Mechanics, history, disputes.

  • Google wins bankrupt Spirit Airlines data for $10 million 15 min read

    Google wins bankrupt Spirit Airlines data for $10 million

    Mercor.io bid $7.5 million and lost. Assets cover 100 million emails, 30 million lines of code and 7.5 billion transactions. Judge rules on the sale August 19.

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