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ChatGPT work requests fall to 32.2% as writing loses its top spot

Luis Rijo — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:54:58 +0100

OpenAI data shows work fell from 51.6% to 32.2% of consumer ChatGPT requests and writing to 21.4%, as decisions lead US work use and ChatGPT ads add a new link.

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Game: Search and social still argue about who found the customer

Luis Rijo — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:49:41 +0100

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Saturday's grid is the hardest of the week, and one set nods to the date on the calendar without ever naming it.

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Reddit ad revenue gains 54% to $847m as daily users stall at 130.3m

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:57:39 +0100

Search referrals fell over 1 million a week in October; the daily audience advertisers buy could shrink by low double digits in Q4. Will the $1bn guide hold?

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Reddit plans to make logins the norm after 20 years of open browsing

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:37:28 +0100

Logged-out visitors made up 77.7 million of 130.3 million daily uniques in Q2. Huffman wants search visitors to see linked posts. Which markets test it first?

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39 states and DC say Character.ai user data needs a privacy ombudsman

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:32:53 +0100

Joining the US Trustee's objection, they cite 12 million users, minors included, and a full platform sale left unclear. What would an ombudsman check, and when?

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Amazon ad revenue growth drops to 11% after Prime Day moves to June

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:31:01 +0100

Advertisers spent $19.64bn, $172m less than in Q2, while AWS grew 39%. Q4 guidance of high-teens ad growth sits below last year's 22%. Is the old pace gone?

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Amazon calls its ad platform an agent, but the agent is still closed beta

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:04:06 +0100

DSP controls now reach only some US advertisers, and the agencies paid to buy Amazon media cannot map the rebrand. Is the confusion steering spend to AI?

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MGM+ sets January 10 premiere for eight-episode Bosch prequel

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:43:52 +0100

Weekly episodes run to February 21, 2027 in eight countries plus Latin America. The franchise's next chapter sits outside Prime Video's ad-supported inventory.

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Instacart ad revenue gains 23% to $331m in quarter before DoorDash deal

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:42:10 +0100

Ad and other revenue per Instacart order rose 12% to $3.62, now 30% of all revenue. Which advertiser contracts need DoorDash's consent before the deal closes?

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Focus Media Network revenue gains 104% ahead of $25m Nasdaq IPO

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:40:14 +0100

Net income hit S$2.93m on S$4.63m of sales from 800+ Singapore office screens. Founder Audrey Chee would keep 56.25% of the votes after the Nasdaq listing.

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DoorDash net income gains 91% to $466m in a record quarter

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:37:36 +0100

Revenue rose 34% to $4.6bn, 23% without Deliveroo, with no ad revenue figure for brands. Q4 guidance reaches $36.4bn as a $13bn loan backs the Instacart deal.

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Mastercard revenue gains 14% to $9.8bn as services rise 19%

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:36:10 +0100

Cross-border online spend outside travel grew 15%, down from 20% in Q2, a gauge for merchants selling abroad. What do the filings say on marketing services?

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Pandora loses 2.75 million monthly users as SiriusXM ad sales stall at $456m

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:34:18 +0100

Podcast ad growth at SiriusXM slowed to 20% from 37% in Q1, a shift for audio buyers and podcasters. YouTube audio has no revenue figure. Can it fill the gap?

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T-Mobile's ad spend gains 5.5% to $956m in the third quarter

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:32:49 +0100

Vistar and Blis, bought for $801m in 2025, get no revenue line while net income rises 27%. What do the results show about carrier data and AI shopping agents?

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Semrush drops Copilot from AI visibility tracking on November 9

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:05:10 +0100

Enterprise AIO clients must choose: hand Copilot prompts back to their balance or keep the history at a cost. Will other AI visibility vendors follow Semrush?

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DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart for $17bn, closing as late as 2028

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:35:10 +0100

Instacart holders get $65 a share, 26% above the October 22 close, at least 75% in cash. Can two delivery and ad platforms clear US, Canada and Israel by 2028?

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Google ad clicks gain 8% in Q3, slower than 11% over nine months

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:43:24 +0100

Each click cost advertisers 4% more and Google showed 14% fewer ads on partner sites. Alphabet's filing also lists $1.08tn of commitments stretching past 2031.

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Teads says AI cuts troubleshooting time from 15 minutes to under 60 seconds

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:34:56 +0100

Agencies in a closed beta can pull Teads reach forecasts into Claude, Gemini Enterprise and Copilot via MCP. Wider access is due by end-2026, but on what terms?

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CNIL fines Fnac €7m after its app tracked users who refused consent

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:32:33 +0100

Recommendation trackers need consent: the app, used by 37,400 people a day, kept sending data after refusal. Fnac has a month to comply or faces €10,000 a day.

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VIOOH gains 460 Adams Outdoor digital billboards to sell programmatically

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:16:13 +0100

Roadside screens in 14 states claim 4.9bn monthly impressions, or 10.7m each, for buyers from Charlotte to Pittsburgh. Why is that 4.5 times OUTFRONT's rate?

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AI to supply 75% of S&P 500 earnings growth next year, Barclays

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:59:41 +0100

Only 60% of investors in a Barclays survey see AI financing as a problem, though neoclouds already struggle to borrow. What could end the denial phase in AI?

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Apple's first touchscreen Mac costs $400 more than the same-chip MacBook Pro

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:57:23 +0100

Creative and design teams get touch, a 10,000,000:1 OLED panel and a 3-pound body, but no faster chip or battery gain. What does the higher price actually buy?

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The Terminal List gains Prime Video's weekly top series spot in 5 days

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:53:59 +0100

Ad buyers see season two, out October 21, pass Carrie and Reacher in a count of worldwide accounts. No totals are given, so what does a rank alone tell them?

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Amazon says Trainium cuts NBA highlight AI processing time by over 40%

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:52:10 +0100

Prime 360 splits each frame into dozens of tiles for diffusion models in select NBA on Prime broadcasts. Amazon has not said what the 40% is measured against.

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Amazon prices Alexa+ in Japan at ¥3,000 a month, five times the Prime fee

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:50:35 +0100

Prime members in Japan get Alexa+ free after Early Access, with Tabelog and Uber Eats bookings still to come. Will Alexa+ ad formats, US-only so far, follow?

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Meta loses Paris appeal, must share revenue data with French press groups

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:48:53 +0100

APIG and DVP members have had no Meta payments since early 2025. Fair pay must now track use and value, and platforms will carry the burden of proving both.

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Netflix plans genre and mood short-video feeds for its phone app in 2027

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:44:54 +0100

iPhone Duo owners get player controls that follow book, tent and tabletop poses. The feeds land in 2027, when Netflix plans to take vertical video ads global.

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Google faces no external audit on EU search data, DuckDuckGo says

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:41:32 +0100

Search engines licensing Google data from January 2027 must pass external audits. DuckDuckGo asks who checks the cost and filter figures Google reports itself.

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TransUnion cuts $11m of advertising for its consumer credit business

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:22:49 +0100

Emerging Verticals, home to its marketing solutions, rose to $351m, up 5.6% organically. What does the 10-Q show about the identity data that advertisers buy?

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PayPal faces FTC probe into its advertising of fees and purchase protection

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:19:29 +0100

Third FTC demand since 2022 targets how PayPal markets fees and buyer protection to consumers. Its 10-Q never names PayPal Ads. What does it tell ad buyers?

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Disney keeps Character.ai's ex-CEO and staff even if outbid, 8 states say

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:46:53 +0100

Illinois, Virginia, Alaska and five more states signed on October 28, so 39 states and DC now back the objection. Will the bidding rules survive October 30?

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Microsoft's search and ad sales, now with LinkedIn, gain 10% to $6.6bn

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:31:03 +0100

Bing advertisers lose their search-only figure: ex-TAC growth of 12% now blends in LinkedIn ads. December guidance calls for low-double-digit growth again.

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Gemini app gains 350m users in a year to pass 1bn, Alphabet says

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:28:16 +0100

API traffic rose 40% in three months to nearly 32bn tokens a minute, and Carbon tops one AI index. Agents come to Search next, with monetization to follow.

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Alphabet's free cash flow drops to negative $9.1bn despite $26.2bn profit

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:25:36 +0100

Capex of $51.4bn equalled 121% of operating cash flow, and Alphabet sold $12.4bn of stock and $28.7bn of notes. Q4 needs $63-73bn more to meet its 2026 plan.

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Google's ad growth slows to 10.5% as AI Mode ads go to 10 more markets

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:20:05 +0100

Alphabet's Q3 ad revenue rose 10.5% to about $82 billion as AI Mode squeezed search ad slots, and Google said ads in AI Mode would now reach 10 more markets.

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YouTube ad revenue gains 9% to $11.2bn, its slowest growth of 2026

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:13:58 +0100

Ad sales rose $152m on Q2 even as YouTube took a record 15.8% of US TV time in August. Music and Premium hit 150m subscribers. Are ads or fees driving growth?

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Game: The budget always lands where the dashboard looks best

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:09:59 +0100

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Friday's grid is the hardest of the week, with one set pulled out of the utility room and tiles that refuse to stay put.

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Google Search sales gain just $79m on Q2 as query growth hits 5-year high

Luis Rijo — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:59:20 +0100

Search revenue growth fell to 12% from 17% in Q2 and YouTube ads slowed to 9%. With no paid click or CPC data, advertisers cannot see how AI Mode is priced.

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LinkedIn members with AI literacy skills 78% more likely to be hired

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:37:44 +0100

Job postings needing AI literacy rose about 65% a year, marketing included, yet 1.2% of members list an AI skill. Who is getting the new jobs AI helped create?

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IAB Tech Lab gives ad tech until November 23 to review live event ad guide

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:35:50 +0100

DSPs and SSPs get suggested polling every 15 to 30 seconds at live peaks plus a 1,000-call hourly default. Which gaps in its own specs does the draft admit?

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Meta's developer MCP gains six tools that let AI agents create apps

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:33:38 +0100

Four of the six write to developer accounts after a confirmation, and app creation is capped at 15 calls a day. Meta has set no date for full availability.

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Scale AI faces 5 GDPR complaints over tracking of Outlier AI trainers

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:31:11 +0100

Pixels from TikTok, LinkedIn and Facebook ran as Outlier freelancers trained AI, noyb alleges. Will regulators in four countries fine a firm with no EU base?

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StackAdapt lets advertisers retarget ChatGPT ad viewers on CTV and display

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:28:08 +0100

Brands and agencies can pool CRM data and retargeting segments around ChatGPT ad exposure in Data Hub, but how a view is matched, and where, goes unexplained.

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Amazon calls AI usage metrics 'deeply flawed' but keeps using them

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:26:02 +0100

Teams at the 10th and 90th percentiles of AI adoption face closer study under Amazon's revised SDE guideline. Which outcome metrics will replace token counts?

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59% of AWS suppliers in Aragón added staff, against 41% of other firms

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:20:24 +0100

GfK surveyed 59 suppliers for AWS: 60% grew revenue, against 56% of non-suppliers over five years. Which of Amazon's Spanish figures does the study support?

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Google's Genie 4 simulates people who talk back in real time

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:18:31 +0100

Gemini 3.8 Flash guides scenes as an agent in the loop and SynthID will mark all output, yet only trusted testers have it. When do AI Ultra subscribers get in?

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Iraq cuts internet 18 times for school exams, Cloudflare Q3 data shows

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:14:29 +0100

Power failures caused 14 of 49 disruptions, cutting Honduras traffic by 63% for three hours. Iraq's latest exam round was due to run into Q4, to October 10.

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Apple's M6 MacBook Pro stays at $1,999 after two price rises in 2026

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:12:05 +0100

Speed claims come from 32GB test units, but the 16GB base model keeps the M5's 153GB/s memory bandwidth. What do buyers get when deliveries start November 6?

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Apple's iMac with M6 starts at $1,499, $200 above the 2024 M4 model

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:10:00 +0100

iMac buyers now need the $1,699 model for standard Touch ID, two external displays and nano-texture glass. EU users get Siri AI on both, with a fee planned.

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Apple puts its new Keynote and Pages AI assistant behind a $12.99 plan

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:08:25 +0100

Outside AI agents gain edit access to Keynote, Pages and Numbers on macOS 27, and Final Cut Pro absorbs MotionVFX. What will free iWork users get in November?

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Sprinklr opens beta of six AI agents that turn briefs into campaigns

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:06:41 +0100

Only 27% of 807 US practitioners in Sprinklr-backed research can quantify AI results precisely. Can the agent beta, launched without test data, show its work?

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Universal Ads gains 12 partner platforms that can book its TV ads

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:04:34 +0100

Topsort, Koddi, Kochava and WorkMagic users can add TV with no Universal Ads markup or contract. What do partners charge, and what does the NBCU move change?

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AdRoll: display ad prices for new shoppers drop 45% before holidays

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:01:29 +0100

Retargeting CPMs fell 29.1% and B2B ABM CPMs rose 4.4% for advertisers on AdRoll. Will cheaper display reach last while Meta costs climb toward Black Friday?

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Publicis Norway says Adform's MCP server cuts its Excel prep time

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:59:38 +0100

Campaign reporting makes up almost a third of AI agent queries, Adform says, as early users score it 9.5 of 10. Who answered, and can agents edit campaigns?

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Invoca AI agents book appointments from chats started in Google Search

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:58:10 +0100

Message ads, sitelinks and featured snippets open RCS chats for telecom, finance and travel brands. Beta excludes health data. Who answers: Gemini or Invoca?

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IAB Europe keeps Volasim listed 13 days after Discover-Tech spyware report

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:56:10 +0100

Volasim joined the vendor list behind TCF consent banners on October 8, the day Discover-Tech was cut. A review is open, but who checks vendors' ownership ties?

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Taboola gains Motorola lockscreens for its DeeperDive AI answer engine

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:54:32 +0100

Select moto g phones in seven named markets, from the UK to Argentina, get it in phases through 2027. Which publishers supply the answers, and will ads follow?

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Magnite SpringServe publishers gain Comscore ad targeting without viewer IDs

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:52:21 +0100

Future Today is among the first sellers, pairing its viewing data with contextual signals across CTV slots. Missing so far: prices, markets and any results.

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Triton Digital's seller agent books Otrium audio campaign in minutes

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:50:19 +0100

Otrium's AI buyer booked Talpa Media audio with no manual step between brief and ad server, Triton says. Price and budget are missing. What did humans still do?

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Ad spend rose on 9 of the top 10 mobile media sources, AppsFlyer finds

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:48:05 +0100

Quality now means quarter-over-quarter spend change, not retention, for app marketers comparing 57 media sources. What the new formula rewards and leaves out.

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87% of pharmacy owners say most patients don't know all their services

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:45:34 +0100

52% of 400 pharmacy owners in England cite not knowing where to start, ahead of budget at 20%. Can awareness catch up as NHS prescribing rolls out this autumn?

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Bing loses 45.6% of web visits in a year, OneLittleWeb estimates

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:43:00 +0100

ChatGPT rose 35.86% to 70.78bn visits to rank fifth, yet tracked websites got 0.2% of visits from AI. Why do Microsoft's own Bing figures point the other way?

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Affording the holidays is the top stressor for 43.8% of Walmart shoppers

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:41:20 +0100

70.2% want lower prices and 33.1% plan to spend more on holiday meals in Walmart's own shopper panel. With no sample size published, what can the data support?

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Only 12% of top US App Store apps have a preview video, Admiral Media finds

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:39:49 +0100

Just 24% of 1,000 top free iPhone apps run In-App Events, and 53.2% ship generic release notes. What public listing data cannot show about installs and rank.

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Acast's North America sales gain 54% to overtake Europe in record quarter

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:38:23 +0100

Organic growth slowed to 18% on a marketplace of 140,000+ podcasters and 4,000+ advertisers as revenue per listen rose 20%. What does Backyard add over a year?

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Character.ai keeps $21.7m bid floor for Disney rivals despite 32 states

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:36:32 +0100

Disney's $700,000 fee, owed by the estate if a rival wins, rests on a claimed $5m in free services. Will users' data get a privacy ombudsman on October 30?

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YouTube holiday playbook cites 30% creator ad lift with no source

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:34:08 +0100

Brands are told to make at least half of holiday ad assets creator-led and to budget for 50 conversions. Which of the figures in Google's guide can be checked?

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Chile's data protection law faces delay to October 15, 2027

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:35:10 +0100

Senators trimmed the 12-month delay Kast sought and backed a five-member regulator board, affecting firms that track Chileans. Can it pass before December 1?

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SheerID: 43% of shoppers would drop a discount that asks for a national ID

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:31:57 +0100

Too many steps deter only 12% of consumers in North America and EMEA, while 38% quit when asked for more than expected. Can consent replace lost tracking data?

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Google Maps businesses lose 1.95% of new reviews in 7 days, study finds

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:29:36 +0100

Reviews naming staff were deleted at 1.01x the rate of others across 2.7M posts, despite Google's April rule. What does that measure, and what does it miss?

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Clear Channel wins 3-year ad renewal at 1.9M-passenger Florida airport

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:26:36 +0100

Brands targeting beach tourists get double-sided digital flags as ECP adds 3 gates. No spend was disclosed, and the term may end as the 2029 terminal opens.

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Samsung TVs gain over 90% more casual and party gamers in North America

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:24:29 +0100

79% of US parents want more family time in a 1,803-adult Ipsos poll for Samsung. No user base backs the growth claim, so what can TV ad buyers take from it?

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VAB puts US ad dollars spent on AI slop at up to $978.7 million

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:22:44 +0100

Bad bots took 40% of 2025 web traffic and US consumers lost $2.1B to social media scams. Which of the deck's 12 figures hold up once checked against sources?

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AI was involved in 52% of ad fraud schemes ADEX flagged in 2026

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:20:22 +0100

Bots posing as humans appeared in 64% of AI-linked schemes across 1.2m campaigns on eight ad platforms, ADEX says. Could AI shopping agents be next in 2027?

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Temu faces 4-month EU deadline to redo risk assessment after €200m fine

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:18:44 +0100

Five measures target recommender amplification and seller abuse on Temu's EU marketplace, with an external audit to follow. What did the EU board find lacking?

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Meta says Andromeda lifted Facebook conversions 2.4% since 2025

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:17:08 +0100

Every eligible ad on Facebook and Instagram is now scored at over 1bn a second per GPU server, 100x the 2024 rate. What sits behind Meta's conversion claim?

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SiriusXM holiday lineup grows to 25 channels from 23, starting November 2

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:14:58 +0100

Twelve get a channel number and 13 are listed for the app alone. Unlike 2023-2025, the release never calls them ad-free or says whether any of them carry ads.

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Hochul signs law barring human-posing AI chatbots for under-18s

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:10:38 +0100

Chatbot operators must confirm New York users are adults or switch off 12 features from January 1, 2027. Which bots are exempt, and who enforces the rules?

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Norwegian court temporarily blocks Meta's new terms after 10 media groups sue

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:08:07 +0100

NRK, Schibsted and eight other media groups won the order without Meta being heard. Earlier today, Meta said a consultation could push its terms past Nov 20.

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US AI app firms 2.2x likelier than EU peers to reach $1m, Stripe finds

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:06:27 +0100

EU consumers pay for AI at about 60% of the US rate, yet 22% of new firms on both sides of the Atlantic code with AI. Where does Europe actually fall behind?

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UK blocks 266 unsafe products at the border in nine months, LegitScript says

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:04:25 +0100

Chemical hazards drew 945 flags in 2,389 EU alerts, and 72% of UK-flagged goods came from China, weeks before marketplaces enter the holiday shopping peak.

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Trade Desk advertisers gain ISP and carrier targeting from Digital Envoy

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:01:53 +0100

Telecom and tech brands get IP-derived provider and company segments across EMEA, APAC and CTV. Price and scale are not disclosed. How accurate is the guess?

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Sprinklr opens beta of six AI agents that turn briefs into campaigns

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:59:01 +0100

Only 27% of 807 US practitioners in Sprinklr-backed research can quantify AI results precisely. Can the agent beta, launched without test data, show its work?

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Amazon's $499.99 Echo Show 16 can recognize users from up to 17 feet

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:24:30 +0100

Night vision arrives on an Echo Show for the first time, with Fire TV built in and a $569.99 anti-glare model. What will Alexa+ show shoppers on that screen?

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Amazon's Alexa Home Map rewinds 24 hours of home camera activity in 3D

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:20:16 +0100

Alexa households must scan each room with an iPhone, and Ring cameras animate visitors. Where those scans are stored, and for how long, the post does not say.

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Payroc poll: 97% of software providers say slow payment setups cost revenue

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:17:31 +0100

73% of 750 staff at US, UK and Canadian software firms delayed or dropped a payment feature over cost. Can AI agents speed the fix without new security gaps?

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Google opens preview for third-party apps inside Search and Gemini

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:15:07 +0100

Developers plug in via a cloud MCP server or Android AppFunctions and pick Search, Gemini or both. What the post leaves out: fees, app ranking and data terms.

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Game: The client always asks for the one number nobody tracked

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:26:08 +0100

Sixteen terms, four groups of four. Thursday's grid sits mid-week in difficulty, and one set rewards anyone who keeps an eye on the design press each December.

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Meta Pixel counts more sales from Nov 12 as AI ads go undisclosed

Luis Rijo — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:03:05 +0100

Meta switches on device-side conversion counting by default on November 12, while a scan of 37,768 Meta ad files finds only 2 of 3,379 AI-flagged files said so.

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Alleged spy firm won ad auctions for Starlink users in 105 countries

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:32:10 +0100

Six sources tell Reuters the bidder is Discover-Tech, with 12.9% of Starlink ads in TrendAI data. Why did the security firm keep that name out of its report?

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Trade Desk CEO says Fortune 500 advertisers decide the open internet's fate

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:24:15 +0100

Green tells advertisers Google and Amazon run walled gardens on a site his company owns, with Q3 sales guided 12% lower. What do ad spend figures say about it?

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Seven publisher groups ask EU, Canada to act on AI search summaries

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:48:36 +0100

SPUR telemetry standard gets backing as publishers seek a pledge in the Oct 29-30 Montreal declaration. Will leaders commit to monitoring AI use of news?

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LADbible owner's core profit drops 35% as social and web ad income halves

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:24:42 +0100

Direct brand content sales rose 69% and revenue hit £106m, yet £30.1m of net cash became £5.8m of debt. Can Uncovered carry the FY27 growth the board expects?

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Writing drops from 34% to 21% of ChatGPT requests since July 2024

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:22:15 +0100

Practical advice now leads with 28.1% of requests and coding help fell to 4.6%. Which countries, age groups and genders are behind the change in ChatGPT use?

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Americans use ChatGPT at work most to make decisions - 1 in 5 requests

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:32:44 +0100

Advice requests rose from 5.5% to 9.0% of US work use of ChatGPT in a year as computer tasks fell to 6.7%. What else do 165 job tasks reveal about AI at work?

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AudienceProject reach studies gain xpln.ai attention data in 9 markets

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:25:08 +0100

Advertisers in the UK, Germany, France and six other markets get deduplicated attentive reach. Canada and Mexico come next; the calculation remains unpublished.

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Meta Pixel will count more conversions from Nov 12 unless advertisers opt out

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:30:56 +0100

Datasets already sending events are switched on by default, and matching runs on the shopper's own device. Meta has not said if recovered sales feed bidding.

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Apple's iPad mini jumps 40% in price to $699 with an OLED display

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:29:25 +0100

Pre-orders open October 28 in 36 markets, but EU buyers get no Siri AI on the new tablet. Apple says its capped AI features will later cost extra. How much?

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South Korean streamers accept 7 minutes of ads per hour, Magnite finds

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:27:39 +0100

Of 905 Korean streamers polled, 69% of CTV users often watch with others and the average is 5 services. Why do pause ads trail Hong Kong, at 31% against 47%?

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Safari 27.2 drops a mistaken 7-day cap on cookies of CNAME-hosted sites

Luis Rijo — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:26:06 +0100

Cookies set by a page's own response expired after a week when its hostname pointed to another domain. Does the fix also reach server-side tracking subdomains?

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