YouTube gains lead over Spotify in UK podcast market, 29% to 28%
Edison data shows BBC Sounds holding 15 percent, far above any equivalent US public-media platform, raising the question of how long that gap narrows.
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Typeface limits new ad resizing tool to waitlist as demand builds
The new Ad Agent resizing tool is capped by waitlist for now, while Video Agent adds scene-level editing and drops its generated-video length limit entirely.
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Adobe finds just 17% of shoppers recall ads after 24 hours
Survey of over 1,000 consumers ties forgettable ads to irrelevance and mistrust, as marketers face pressure to win both human and AI-driven brand discovery.
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France forces Meta to negotiate with publishers within 15 days
Publishers unpaid since January 2025 must receive Meta's remuneration data within 15 days, an order that stands until France issues a final competition ruling.
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Apple loses App Store and iOS gatekeeper appeal at EU court
Judges dismissed all three Apple cases and confirmed iMessage counts as a regulated messaging service, leaving one narrow appeal route to the Court of Justice.
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"Dai Dai" just conquered France and Germany at last
"Dai Dai" claims YouTube's global No. 1 for a 7th straight week and finally tops France and Germany, while Oliver Tree's catalog surge shifts after his death.
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Google adds Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube data to Search Console
Creators with no website can now track which search terms drive clicks to their Instagram, TikTok or YouTube posts. Full access rolls out over the coming weeks.
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DMA gains Firefox 6 million EU users but leaves Google 90% dominant
A University of Antwerp analysis finds Bing, Edge and Mozilla, not EU rivals, stand to gain most from contestability, questioning whether sovereignty follows.
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Banking ads lose $295K yearly to fraud, Lunio finds
Google Search itself carries banking's highest Google-channel fraud rate at 5.51 percent, Lunio finds, while LinkedIn clicks there run over a third invalid.
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Criteo takeover bid reshapes an adtech industry already in flux
A 50 percent premium bid for Criteo lands alongside a Google Ads bidding change, an FTC ruling on AI bias and new ad verification data reshaping July 2026.
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YouTube Premium Lite skips 57 countries even after new expansion
The lower-cost ad-light plan now covers 63 countries, but 57 markets holding full YouTube Premium still lack Lite, leaving the global rollout uneven for now.
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Ketch cuts podcast cleanup from days to minutes with Wistia MCP
Ketch cleared 90 mislabeled podcast episodes in minutes via Wistia's new MCP server. Over 300 accounts queried it in days. What happens to library work next?
