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.
Brussels says infinite scroll, autoplay and personalised feeds push users toward compulsive use. Meta can contest the finding before regulators rule on a fine.
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.
Containers loaded through unsupported paths like /gtag/js previously ran unrestricted regardless of the container's actual type. Now only the ID governs it.
Three features, subscriptions, user acquisition and revenue dashboards, remain limited to early access customers as Ezoic tests general availability timing.
Meta Superintelligence Labs opens the multimodal reasoning model through a new public preview API, pairing coding gains with autonomous agent orchestration.
Mobile web held 45.1% of open web impressions but drew 71.5% of ad clutter and 54.9% of suitability failures in 2025, showing where 2026 controls tighten next.
Half of 120 surveyed marketers raised CTV budgets, yet just 39% feel confident defending the spend. Over 70% would invest more if measurement proof improves.
Vista Equity and Quinti Capital bid for Criteo at a 50 percent premium while IAS installs a new CEO and Europe's digital ad market hits 131.1 billion euros.
Europe's digital ad market added 12.5 billion euros in 2025, reaching 131.1 billion, as video and retail media far outpaced search, display and classifieds.
Effective immediately, Jones takes over from Utzschneider after a seven-year run, as Novacap-owned IAS bets on AI-era measurement leadership going forward.
Enabling Jewels gifts automatically switches off Super Stickers on the same channel, and payouts carry no fixed revenue share for the country's YPP creators.
Federal Court found the $2 joining fee masked $45-75 monthly charges and false Fair Work Ombudsman ties, and refunds are now owed to consumers who complained.