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Google sent cease and desist letters to Barb and Kantar Media, stopping YouTube viewership comparison with traditional TV channels just months after launch.

Meta reports $58.1B advertising revenue in Q4 2025 with 24% growth as GEM model improvements and Advantage+ tools deliver conversion gains while video generation reaches $10B run-rate.

IAB Tech Lab released standardized definitions for programmatic auctions on January 29, establishing common vocabulary for buyers, sellers, and platforms.

Prebid today took over the sales agent repository for agentic advertising from AgenticAdvertising.org, providing publishers neutral path to automated direct buying.

Azerion today integrated Global Data Resources into Hawk DSP, enabling privacy-first geo-demographic targeting across 13 European markets without cookies or IDs.

Clicks down in Google Ads? Diagnose Quality Score, impressions, ad changes, and competitor pressure, then apply quick fixes to stabilize volume and results.

ChatGPT ads to launch with $60 CPMs and limited reporting. Google debuts first Ads Decoded podcast episode focused on Google Analytics for marketers.

Google explores letting sites opt out of AI search features, Gemini 3 becomes the default for AI Overviews, and Altman admits GPT-5.2 writing tradeoffs.

Google's Eleanor Stribling reveals GA4's roadmap: full-funnel measurement platform within a year, then evolving into an AI-powered business decision platform.

SparkToro research finds AI tools produce different brand recommendation lists more than 99% of the time when given the same prompt.

New research paper about creating a dataset for training deep research AI agents (SAGE) provides insights into how this kind of search works.

WordPress announced a new AI agent skill that enables AI to test their work as they go to speed up development.

Cloudflare data shows Googlebot accesses 3.2x more unique URLs than OpenAI and 4.8x more than Microsoft, as UK regulator considers crawler separation mandate.

Major music publishers including Concord and Universal file massive copyright lawsuit against Anthropic claiming illegal downloads of 20,000 songs via BitTorrent from pirate sites.

Google Ads API v23 introduces channel-level reporting for Performance Max, enabling developers to break down ad performance across Search, YouTube, Display, Gmail, Maps, and Discover.

Amazon confirmed 16,000 job cuts today, totaling 30,000 since October as employees allege American workers disproportionately affected versus H-1B holders.

Interactive Advertising Bureau projects 9.5% US ad spend increase in 2026, with five of six top priorities driven by AI as advertisers embrace autonomous campaign management.

CES 2025 exposed the forces closing the gap between attribution and incrementality while agentic systems threaten DSP differentiation.

Vivaldi Technologies released version 7.8 on January 29 with drag-and-drop tab tiling and pinned tab restrictions, rejecting AI assistants while Chrome, Edge integrate AI features.

Golden from KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack accumulates 57M weekly views while most Americans have never heard of it—revealing how streaming fragmented into parallel universes.