ExchangeWire's MadTech podcast, published April 3, 2026, breaks down LLM visibility tool credibility, agent-to-agent buying timelines, and the end of hyper-targeted advertising.
A jury on March 25 found Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial, awarding $6 million and echoing century-old tobacco litigation.
FTC charges OkCupid with sharing nearly 3M user photos with a facial recognition firm, violating privacy promises. Match Group settlement filed March 30, 2026.
Bavaria's BayLDA received 9,746 complaints in 2025, a 61% surge, as AI tools lowered barriers to filing GDPR cases and LLMs generated complaints in bulk.
Description: Apple on March 24 announced Apple Business, a free platform for all company sizes launching April 14 in 200+ countries, with Maps ads and device management.
Carrefour's 2030 plan targets 3.5% operating margin, 5 billion euros in free cash flow, and AI-powered shopping via ChatGPT, Vusion, and Google partnerships.
Independent publishers at Google's October 2024 Web Creator Summit say they were ghosted as AI Overviews cannibalize organic search traffic, closing sites.
Google Ads replaces call duration metrics with AI-qualified conversions, filtering spam calls and feeding cleaner signals into Smart Bidding for US and Canada.
Bedrock Platform deploys the world's first containerized DSP bidder inside Index Exchange, eliminating QPS throttling and infrastructure as scale barriers.
ChatGPT ads reach logged-out users, IAB Tech Lab forms a programmatic governance council, SECURE Data Act targets state privacy laws, and Google resets its spam tools.
New log file analysis of 7 billion OpenAI bot events reveals a 3.5x surge in OAI-SearchBot activity after GPT-5, while ChatGPT user-driven events dropped 28%.
Google has brought its Gemini-powered Trends Explore page to mobile web, giving journalists and marketers real-time AI-assisted search trend research anywhere.
Vevo's 2026 upfront strategy triples Artist Franchise sales, expands Vevo Evolve audience tools, and opens music video inventory via YouTube Instant Reserve.
Paligo: 49% of harmful AI incidents involve software, not robots, in 1,406 cases - chatbots, recommendation engines and deepfakes dominate the incident record.
Google Ad Manager launched focused banner ads on March 9, 2026, a beta format that blurs article text mid-scroll until readers tap a button to resume reading.
ExchangeWire's MadTech podcast, published April 3, 2026, breaks down LLM visibility tool credibility, agent-to-agent buying timelines, and the end of hyper-targeted advertising.
A jury on March 25 found Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial, awarding $6 million and echoing century-old tobacco litigation.
FTC charges OkCupid with sharing nearly 3M user photos with a facial recognition firm, violating privacy promises. Match Group settlement filed March 30, 2026.
Bavaria's BayLDA received 9,746 complaints in 2025, a 61% surge, as AI tools lowered barriers to filing GDPR cases and LLMs generated complaints in bulk.
Description: Apple on March 24 announced Apple Business, a free platform for all company sizes launching April 14 in 200+ countries, with Maps ads and device management.
Carrefour's 2030 plan targets 3.5% operating margin, 5 billion euros in free cash flow, and AI-powered shopping via ChatGPT, Vusion, and Google partnerships.
Independent publishers at Google's October 2024 Web Creator Summit say they were ghosted as AI Overviews cannibalize organic search traffic, closing sites.