- Amazon Blocks Shoppers From Using New Meta Agent
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, September 21, 2026
Amazon has restricted its customers from using Muse AI - Meta's newe ...
- Google Tells Advertisers They Must Protect Their Contact Forms
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Sunday, September 20, 2026
Google has alerted advertisers that its invalid traffic filters cannot stop inval ...
- WPP: Agentic Creates Brand Language, Data Challenges
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Data accuracy as it relates to agentic commerce has become a hidd ...
- Nextdoor Combines Human Recommendations, AI To Promote Local Businesses
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Nextdoor wants to provide consumers with an alternative to bot-generated reviews ...
- Comscore Launches Human-Powered AI Practice, Draws From Massive Opt-In Panel
MediaDailyNews, Joe Mandese - Thursday, September 3, 2026
At a time when marketers seem transfixed on the "visibility" their bran ...
- Chatbot Traffic Rises 60% YoY
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 3, 2026
AmazonBot - used to index content and gather data to improve Ale ...
- Bad Robots!
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, August 10, 2026
The robots are not going away. So perhaps it is time ...
- LinkedIn Reverses Approach To AI-Generated Content
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, July 30, 2026
LinkedIn is rethinking its strategy for AI-generated content on the platform's ma ...
- Bot, Agent Traffic Now Surpasses Human, Leading To Ad Challenges
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Sunday, July 26, 2026
Website traffic from bots and AI agents surpassed human traffic for t ...
- Bipartisan Bill Targets AI Stealth Bots
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 23, 2026
The federal Stealth Bot Prohibition Act introduced today would require AI-powered steal ...
- Patreon Aims To Block Training Agents' Via Creators' Work
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, July 10, 2026
Patreon has partnered with Cloudflare to block automated bots or "crawlers" fr ...
- Bots Take Lead, AI Traffic Surpasses Humanity's
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Microsoft announced key updates Wednesday that support brands as the company mov ...
- Instagram Profiles Broken Into By Hackers Using Meta Support Bot
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 1, 2026
Hackers claim they broke into high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the Meta support bot to change the ema ...
- IAB Opens AI Bot Guidance For New Web Rules
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, May 27, 2026
IAB Tech Lab has released new guidance on AI system bot-and-crawler manageme ...
- Amazon Shifts Strategy, Replaces Rufus With Alexa Shopping Agent
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Amazon has added Alexa to search results across its marketplace. A ch ...
- DoubleVerify Can Proceed With Suit Against Adalytics, Judge Rules
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, April 28, 2026
DoubleVerify can proceed with defamation and false advertising claims against analytics compa ...
- AI Threatens Ad Quality, Rewrites The Internet
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 30, 2026
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman outlined the company's new labeling system for bot ...
- Human Traffic Slows, Automation Grows 8 Times Faster
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, March 26, 2026
Automated online traffic from bots conducting agentic searches and purchases grew 23.5 ...
- Judge Bans Perplexity Shopping Agent From Amazon
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Perplexity likely violated a 40-year-old anti-hacking law by accessing Amazon users' accoun ...
- Why Meta's Moltbook Acquisition Changes All
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 11, 2026
For Meta, this paves a path toward complete automation as the w ...
- Data Scraper Urges Judge To Throw Out Google Lawsuit
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 20, 2026
Texas-based data scraper SerpApi is urging a federal judge to toss ...
- IAB Unveils Draft Bill Aimed At AI Scraping
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 2, 2026
"If we keep the status quo where AI bots can leverage publish ...
- No View Vs. AI Overviews: Google Announces An Opt-Out Policy
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Google is exploring ways to allow content producers to opt out ...
- eBay Blocks 3rd-Party Agents, Eyes New Attribution Models
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 23, 2026
eBay updated its user agreement earlier this week to ban third-party ...
- Microsoft Exposes AI Bot Site Traffic
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 22, 2026
Microsoft's Clarity has released a way to identify patterns that show h ...
- Ad Spend Wasted On Invalid Traffic Reaches $63B
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Ad platforms filter invalid traffic as marketers continue to keep a clos ...
- Bots, Bad Clicks Quietly Siphon Billions From Digital Ad Spend
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Invalid clicks contaminate conversion data, mislead bidding algorithms, inflate acquisition costs a ...
- Rolling Slowdowns: Publishers Suffered Traffic Declines In Late 2025
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, January 5, 2026
Some of last year's traffic losses resulted from LLMs, some from ...
- 2025's Most-Read '3.0' Was About A Question I Asked Agency Honchos About 2030
Media 3.0, Joe Mandese - Tuesday, December 30, 2025
The question: What share of your ad budget will be spent targeti ...
- In Industry First, DoubleVerify Will Validate Non-Human Agent Traffic
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 4, 2025
The new service will validate "declared AI" agents such as ChatGPT, Clau ...