NIQ's Early Market Read delivers U.S. weekly sales data as fast as two days after week's close, cutting the standard nine-day reporting cycle by seven days for CPG teams.

CIMM and 4As today released a study of 197 marketers showing advertiser measurement confidence lags capability across TV and video, with 43% citing cross-platform gaps.

California's privacy agency fined PlayOn Sports $1.1M for forcing students to click "agree" to ad tracking before using digital tickets at high school events.

Spain's AEPD fines FC Barcelona €500,000 for an inadequate data protection impact assessment covering biometric facial and voice data of 143,000 members.

The Trade Desk today launched OpenTTD, a unified portal giving data providers, publishers, and brands API access to programmatic advertising tools across the open internet.

Bonial acquires cmmrcl.ly from Axel Springer, creating a retail media hub with first-party data from 25+ partners including REWE, Rossmann, and OBI.

Google will block Customer Match data uploads via the Google Ads API from April 1, 2026, requiring developers to migrate to the Data Manager API for all audience list management.

Cloudflare's inaugural 2026 Threat Report reveals how attackers now exploit trusted cloud tools and stolen session tokens, bypassing MFA in 94% of bot-driven login attempts.