FinCEN drops US ownership filings, cutting $9bn a year in compliance costs
Only foreign-formed entities still file, roughly 11,667 a year, and records already lodged by US persons are deleted. What now verifies who owns an advertiser?
Data
The latest news about data. Data is used in advertising in a variety of ways, including Audience targeting, Ad personalization, Ad optimization, Ad placement, and Measurement. Advertisers use data in advertising to reduce wasted ad spend.
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Skai and Innovid gain Reddit ad buying through completed API integrations
Reddit posted $762 million in quarterly ad revenue on July 30, and its buying-tool partner list now runs from Sprinklr in 2024 to Pacvue. What is still missing?
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Honey loses 7,000 merchants as judge lets creator lawsuit proceed
Merchant count fell from about 35,000 to 28,000 and coupons from 90,000 to 50,000, trackers say. PayPal now heads into full discovery on code it once defended.
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US sends 53.5% of global bot traffic, Decodo analysis finds
Iran runs 81.4% bots at home while retail absorbs 13% of automated requests, a split that now decides which crawlers reach product pages and which get shut out.
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Stanford study finds 5% of IP addresses send 55% of all web requests
Fewer than 0.2% of domains hold a unique IPv4 address, and 44% of client IPs carry two or more user agents. Frequency caps and fraud filters read that signal.
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Indonesia's data law faces court test with DPA rules still two months away
Komdigi says the watchdog reports to the president, not the ministry, while AI products split across three risk tiers. Can a regulator this late still bite?
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Chavez says enterprise data cannot be removed from an LLM once trained
Two decades after publishers handed inventory to Google, a super{set} co-founder says the same bargain now faces firms. Can a company audit what a model kept?
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Shopify GA4 tracking gains 4 events August 17 - only purchase is server-side
Merchants get view_item_list, remove_from_cart, view_cart and add_shipping_info three years after GA4 migration. Do ad blockers still break the session thread?
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PatronView blocks Amazon's AI crawler after 117,000 daily page reads
Anthropic's crawler hit a 35,000 to 1 crawl ratio, and CAPTCHA solve rates measured just 0.24%. The findings show why small operators are locking down servers.
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Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak
Monthly peak hit 207,204 in March 2014. The whole of 2025 produced 108,981 questions, under one peak month. What now happens to the corpus that trained AI?
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What did the first week of August change in digital advertising?
A $2.15 billion acquisition, a brutal earnings split, fresh lawsuits and forced automation reshaped digital advertising between August 3 and August 8, 2026.
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Google Ads gains View call report link inside phone conversion actions
Lead generation advertisers now reach call details in one click, opening a report where AI-written summaries have sat since April. How many knew it existed?
