- Google Presses Judge To Lift Data-Sharing Mandate
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 9, 2026
"The public interest favors a stay because non-parties have an interest ...
- iSpot Goes 'Agentic,' AI Platform Analyzes TV Ads
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, February 10, 2026
"Now we are putting our massive proprietary intelligence to work in ...
- Judge Won't Scrap $425M Privacy Verdict Against Google
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 3, 2026
A federal judge has rejected Google's request to vacate a jury verdi ...
- DOJ Fights Google's 'Premature' Request To Stay Antitrust Order
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 2, 2026
Antitrust enforcers oppose Google's request to stay an order requiring it ...
- 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 ...
- Nielsen Kicks Off New Co-Viewing Effort On Super Bowl Sunday
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, February 3, 2026
The pilot program features a "new methodology enhancement." ...
- AI Agent Social Media Site Reveals Data Security Risks
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 2, 2026
The social media site, not for humans, shows retailers are not prepar ...
- TikTok's New Privacy Policy Leads To Questions About Its Data Gathering
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 29, 2026
TikTok, now in U.S. hands, has announced a new privacy policy th ...
- OpenAI Addresses Monetization, Hires Ad Engineers
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 27, 2026
AI models have largely been trained on content funded by advertising, a ...
- ROI Alone - No Longer A Sufficient Measurement Metric
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Return on investment alone cannot provide adequate support to guide media investme ...
- Apple Defeats Portions Of Suit Over App Data
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 22, 2026
A federal judge has dismissed portions of a class-action privacy complaint allegi ...
- Most Instagram Ads Currently Run On Reels, Data Shows
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, January 20, 2026
As Meta moves to prioritize Reels across its flagship social platforms, da ...
- Beta Brands Begin Testing ChatGPT Ads, Budgets = $1M Each
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 21, 2026
OpenAI has started offering a small group of advertisers the ability ...
- Instagram, Facebook Lead Ranking Of Apps With Deepest Data Signals
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Monday, January 19, 2026
Data richness, while critical for targeting and performance, increasingly sits alongside regulato ...
- Winterberry '26 U.S. Ad/Marketing Forecast: +9.4%
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 15, 2026
Media expenditure for advertisers is expected to reach $664.2 billion in 202 ...
- EDO Found Liable For iSpot Breach, $18.3M Awarded
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, January 16, 2026
According to the iSpot complaint, EDO spent three-and-a-half years improperly obtaining da ...
- Google Settles Children's Privacy Claims Over App Data
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Google has agreed to pay $8.25 million to resolve a class-action allegi ...
- Google's Billion iPhone Advantage Will Reshape Advertising
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 15, 2026
Google's multi-year contract with Apple to support its push further into ...
- Meta Announces AI Infrastructure Initiative
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, January 12, 2026
On Friday in a post on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announc ...
- Meta's Manus Gains Web Traffic Data For AI Agents
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Similarweb will provide web traffic and engagement data that integrate into Man ...
- Walmart Using Purchase Data In A Way That Goes Beyond Listings
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 9, 2026
Walmart is integrating purchase data into influencer planning on Meta platforms, Pymn ...
- First-Party TV Data? Maybe Not So First - Or Fast
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, January 9, 2026
At CES this week, media futurist and media agency exec Rishad Tobaccowa ...
- Google Allows Advertisers To Manage Data Collection And Tracking
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 8, 2026
Google has added data transmission controls to its Google Tag settings witho ...
- Healthcare AI: Dangerous Mistakes, Deep Privacy Risks
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 8, 2026
While OpenAI designed ChatGPT Health to help users better understand their heal ...
- In AI We Trust, Or Not
Planning & Buying Insider, J. Walker Smith - Tuesday, January 6, 2026
The data says few people trust AI. At least not in t ...
- Disney Fined For Lax Standards In Misuse Of Children's Data
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, January 5, 2026
The primary allegation is that Disney failed to properly use the "Ma ...
- Samsung Ads Releasing Lower-Funnel 'Walled Garden' Data
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, January 5, 2026
Advertisers previously had access only to a limited portion of data ...
- Kennedy Center And Trump: Maybe TV Ratings Aren't His Specialty
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, January 5, 2026
Lower TV ratings for CBS' "Kennedy Center Honors" is bad on t ...
- No-Loss Name Change: Gmail Users Can Alter Their Addresses, Keep Data
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 29, 2025
Google is allowing Gmail users to change their email addresses without losi ...
- Expedia, Yelp, Angi, Square Build Agentic Experiences For Alexa+
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, December 26, 2025
The integrations show advertisers no longer just buy "space" or "impressions," b ...