Tokyo drops to ninth largest city by 2100 as Dhaka hits 55 million
Jakarta leads 2025 at 41.9 million and Karachi more than doubles to 43.7 by 2100. Ad infrastructure sits in the markets losing people. What closes the gap?
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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Google Ads API v25.1 gains 24 lift metrics, allowlist only
Read-only lift resources expose study configs and flight dates, while BenchmarksService adds category filters and share of voice. Who gets access, and when?
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Startpage wins built-in Firefox search slot in 5 European countries
Firefox users already ran over a billion Startpage queries a year through add-ons. Exa now powers AI answers and NVIDIA opens 2,000 games. Who gets defaults?
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LiveRamp executives lose merger pay vote by 44.3m votes to 7.3m
Merger itself cleared with 51.6m shares in favour, only 60,073 against, sending RampID toward Publicis. The pay rebuke is advisory and does not bind the board.
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Apple kills EU per-install fee for 5% commission on non-App Store sales
Developers face a 26% App Store commission and 20% with alternative payments. Every EU developer moves to one set of terms on October 1, locked for 12 months.
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WP Engine drops hosting requirement for Smart Search AI plugin
Once locked to WP Engine's own paying customers only, Smart Search AI now runs on any WordPress site as agencies weigh search tools against AI answer engines.
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Cloudflare Gateway blocks MCP calls that bypass approved portals
Gateway now flags any TLS-inspected request carrying an MCP-Protocol-Version header, though local stdio servers and off-network calls stay outside the new view.
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Ad tech repriced everything this week except the thing doing the counting
Ad tech's week in numbers: AI Max carries 72% more invalid traffic, The Trade Desk falls 22%, Comscore cuts $25 million and Perplexity blocks Time's agent ads.
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Campaign Manager 360 API adds 60-second synchronous report queries
Developers can skip preconfigured Report resources and pull JSON directly. Floodlight activities separately gain 14 categories, now mandatory for attribution.
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Ledisa faces $5m class action over GLP-1 patches with no GLP-1
Suit filed August 13 in California's Eastern District says the patches were relabelled Berberine. Doctors cite molecule size. Does a rename cure the claims?
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Mars faces class action over quinoa listed under 2% on Seeds of Change pack
Complaint puts damages above $5m and covers a nationwide class of buyers, filed August 12 in San Diego. Front-of-pack ingredient order now faces a jury test.
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Norway forces SATS to let gym members object to check-in photos
Twenty-six complaints from Finnish and Norwegian members pushed Datatilsynet to act. SATS has until September 11, 2026 to rewrite its member photo notices.
