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IndustryFilip's Take

In-Housing Won't Fix What You Couldn't See

Apple Turned Ad Trackers Into Creepy Stalkers. The Campaign Is Aimed at Your Targeting.

YouTube Just Passed Netflix for Daily Viewing. The Living Room Belongs to the Creators.

Constant Contact Brought SMS to Australian Small Business. The Channel Still Converts.

Click Frenzy Is Back for EOFY and It's Free for the First 500 Retailers

DoorDash Is Now a Global Commerce Media Player. The Retail Media Map Keeps Growing.

Reddit Just Opened Shopify Selling to Every Advertiser. Its Commerce Push Is Real.

Kmart Just Put a Google AI Assistant Inside Its Store. Try-Ons and All.

Google Just Tightened Who You Can Target in Demand Gen. Check Your Sensitive Categories.

Google Launched Search Profiles for Big Creators. The Click Problem Is the Real Story.

Roblox Is Walling Under-13s Off From Ads. The Kids' Marketing Playbook Just Changed.

Google Analytics Is Pulling In Your Business Profile Data. Local Marketers, Pay Attention.

AI Is Making the Shortlist Before Your Customer Does. The Boundary Just Moved.

Bots Just Passed Humans on the Web. Half Your Analytics Might Be Machines.

Insurance Brands Just Lifted Ad Spend 11%. Read Why Before You Cut Yours.

The ACCC Just Took Amazon to Court Over a Backpack. Marketplaces Are Now on the Hook.

PaidFilip's Take

A Short and Nervous Market

Asahi Just Picked a New Media Agency. The Pitch Carousel Keeps Spinning.

Australia Is About to Police Who Can Text You as a Brand. Get Your Sender ID Sorted.

Three in Four Australians Now Shop Like Bargain Hunters. Your Marketing Has to Catch Up.

TikTok Wants Your Ad Next to the Videos People Already Watch. It Also Wants More Resellers.

Pinterest Just Made Boosting an Ad a One-Tap Job. Small Businesses Are the Target.

Google Says Buying Your Way Into AI Answers Is Spam. It Is Watching.

Snapchat Now Wants to Drive Sales, Not Just Eyeballs. It Added AI Video Too.

Instagram Just Opened Trending Reels Ads to Everyone. It Also Hit 3 Billion Users.

LinkedIn Is Putting B2B Ads on Your TV Through Amazon. The Boardroom Just Got a Screen.

ChatGPT Ads Just Learned to Chase Conversions. The Bar to Get In Is Your Pixel.

Australia's New Rules on Marketing to Kids Just Closed Consultation. The Deadline Is Real.

Meta Is About to Outspend Google in the Ad Market. The Power Has Shifted.

Australia Post Just Handed Its Media to a Consultancy. Wavemaker Held It for Seven Years.

IndustryFilip's Take

Australian Marketing Doesn't Have a Tools Problem. It Has a Numbers Problem.

Your Best Campaign Might Not Be Your Safest. Marketing Is Learning to Measure Risk.

Meta Just Put an AI Salesperson Inside Every WhatsApp Business Account

Not One Australian Brand Said It Highly Trusts Retail Media. They Are Spending More Anyway.

Shopify Went Dark and Took Thousands of Storefronts With It. Single Points of Failure Are Back on the Agenda.

Brands Keep Scripting Their Creators. That Is Why the Content Flops.

The Minimum Wage Just Cracked $1,000 a Week. Your Margins Felt It First.

Google Ads Just Rewrote the Rules on What It Can Do With Your Data. The Date Is July 1.

Most Australians Now Use AI. ChatGPT Is Where They Start.

CommBank Just Ended a 14-Year Agency Relationship. The Account Is Worth $8 Million.

Google's May Core Update Is Done. The Rankings Moved More Than They Did in March.

Sitecore Just Paid $225 Million for a Tool That Tells Brands How AI Sees Them

Google Just Gave Search Console Its Own AI Search Reports. Here Is What They Show and What They Hide.

Stan Is Getting Ads. Nine Just Opened Premium Streaming Inventory to Advertisers.

YouTube Just Became the First Platform With Brand Safety Accreditation for Short-Form Video

Optus Is Now Australia's Most Distrusted Brand. OpenAI Just Joined the List.

DataFilip's Take

The Platforms Are Writing Your Marketing Reports. That Is the Problem.

Adore Beauty's Q4 Slowed. The Reason Is a Pattern Every Australian Retailer Should Watch.

Salesforce Just Bought a Headless CMS. Agentforce Needed a Content Pipeline and Now It Has One.

Google's CEO Says 'Google Zero' Is Not Real. The Data in Your Search Console Will Tell You Otherwise.

DuckDuckGo's No-AI Search Traffic Has Tripled. Users Are Voting on What They Want From Search.

Walmart Just Opened Its Customer Data to Yahoo and Magnite. Retail Media Is Leaving the Walled Garden.

Ahrefs Tracked Which Sites AI Search Engines Cite Most. Here Is What the Data Says About Your Content Strategy.

Australia Just Issued Its First Influencer Marketing Fine. The Wild West Is Officially Closed.

Brand Visibility Has Moved Out of the Search Results Page. Most Brands Have Not Moved With It.

Netflix Makes $1.47 Billion in Australia and Sends $1.35 Billion of It Overseas. The Local Content Argument Gets Harder to Ignore.

Two YouTube Creators Just Beat Hollywood at the Box Office. The Gatekeeper Is Gone.

Consumers Rate AI Content Highly Until They Learn It Was Made by AI. Then They Don't.

Nine Just Collapsed Its Digital Properties Into One Address. Here Is What That Means for Advertisers.

Tourism NT and Going North Just Said What Most Australian Marketers Know and Are Ignoring

Automotive Spend Is Booming While the Rest of Australia's Ad Market Softens. Read the Signal.

Anthropic Just Filed to Go Public. The AI Infrastructure Your Marketing Runs On Is Getting a Price Tag.

TechFilip's Take

Google's AI Will Soon Call Your Business. Your Customer Won't.

The Martech Industry Is Buying What It Cannot Build. Your Stack Is About to Get Reshuffled.

Connected TV Ad Spend Is About to Double. Three Companies Will Own Half of It.

AI Is Manufacturing Fake People to Sell Cheap Goods. Your Ads Could Be Running Right Next to Them.

Most Influencer Deals End After One Post. You Are Paying to Start Over Every Time.

Amazon Made a Show Out of Someone Else's Character With AI. Every Brand Using AI Creative Should Watch This.

Gmail and Yahoo Stopped Being Polite About Your Email. The Rules Got Teeth.

Australia's Ad Market Is Set to Grow. Brands Are Still Refusing to Commit Early.

Australia's Privacy Reforms Are About to Hit Your Marketing. The Deadlines Are Real.

TikTok Wants to Own Your Search Bar, Your Creator Deals and Your Ad Production. Here Is the Catch.

Meta Is Now Selling Its Way Out of Ads. Read What That Tells You.

Shopify Just Opened Its Entire Catalogue to AI Shopping Agents. Your Product Data Is Now Your Storefront.

Amazon Will Now Change the Ad on Your TV Based on What You Buy. The Living Room Just Became Performance Media.

Snap Just Admitted Its Own Numbers Were Not Enough. Yours Probably Are Not Either.

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TechFilip's Take

Buying AI Won't Fix Marketing You Can't Measure

Competitive Intelligence Just Became a Live Capability. Most Marketers Still Run the Old Model.

A Returns Startup Just Bet on Australia. The Post-Purchase Gap Is the Story.

Video Stopped Being a Top-of-Funnel Thing. The Best Brands Use It to Keep Customers.

Australia Is Back in the World's Top 10 Startup Ecosystems. That Is a Marketing Story.

Amazon Wants Publishers to Prove Which Signals Buyers Actually Pay For.

Your Paid Social Is Only as Good as Your Creative. Most Teams Test It Wrong.

Buyers Now Ask AI Before They Ask You. PR Is How You Get Named.

American Eagle Is Pulling Budget Toward Performance. It Is the Oldest Trap in Marketing.

Mailchimp Will Now Answer Your Analytics in Plain English. Mind the Confidence.

Two Giants of the Pageview Era Just Sold for Scraps. Read the Signal.

Google Is Finally Letting You Stop AI Max Eating Your Brand Traffic.

Reddit Just Made Itself Easy to Advertise On. Whether It Works Is Up to You.

The ACCC Just Took Amazon to Court. The Marketplace Defence Is on Trial.

X Is at War With Australia's Safety Regulator Again. Your Brand Is Standing Nearby.

Google Just Put Lead Management Inside Google Ads. The Catch Is the Data You Feed It.

The Highest-Performing Email Channel Is Not Your Newsletter. It Is Your Team's Outbox.

Is Performance Max Better Than Separate Campaigns? In 2026 the Answer Is Run Both.

If Your AI Keeps Writing Beige, the Problem Is the Brand Brief You Never Gave It

CNN Is Suing Perplexity Over 17,000 Copied Stories. Every Brand Publishing Content Should Be Watching.

The Brands Climbing the Rankings Are Not Reinventing Anything. They Are Removing the Moments Customers Pause.

Walmart Connect Just Added a Second Ad Platform. The Walled Garden Is Opening.

Your B2B PPC Metrics Are Probably Lying to You. Here Is How to Catch It.

Most Small Business Websites Do Not Have a Traffic Problem. They Have a Copywriting Problem.

A Third of Australian Shoppers Buy After Watching a How-To Clip. The Infomercial Is Back.

You Cannot Optimise Your Way Out of a Trust Problem

Measured Just Let Marketers Ask ChatGPT How Their Media Is Performing. The Guardrails Are the Point.

WordPress Has Lost Market Share Six Months Running. The Thing Replacing It Is Nothing.

Nearly Half of B2B Companies Have Cut Marketing Roles Because of AI. They Just Are Not Announcing It.

Google Ads Has a New Targeting Mode That Only Chases People Who Have Never Heard of You

Google Will Now Show Your Share of Voice Inside AI Shopping. Most Retailers Have Never Measured It.

HAVAS Blak Is What Happens When You Let the Relationship Mature

Buying Online Is Saving Australian Households $1,414 a Year. That's Your Value Proposition.

AI Models Aren't Just Wrong. They're Trained to Be Confident About It.

Apple Is Paying Google $1 Billion a Year to Put Gemini Inside Siri

Publishers Are Signing AI Licensing Deals. The Scorecard Is Mixed.

Asana Just Bought Its Way Into the AI Agent Race for $75 Million

31% of Internet Traffic Is Now Bots. The Infrastructure Is Responding.

YouTube Is Now the Top Streaming Platform for Marketing Investment. Here's Why Netflix Is Closing the Gap.

Creator Marketing Is the Fastest Growing Channel. Brands Still Can't Measure It.

Tim Berners-Lee Built the Web. Now He's Warning You About What Comes Next.

Marketers Are Wasting Money on Unnecessary New Platforms and AI Tools, Says Ebiquity CEO

The Case Against Trusting the Platforms to Model Your Media Spend

For the First Time, All Five Global Agency Holding Companies Sat on the Same Stage

Anthropic Just Became the World's Most Valuable Private Company

AI Brain Fry Is Real. Your Marketing Team Is Already Experiencing It.

OpenAI Is Building a Performance Advertising Platform. The Infrastructure Is Nearly Ready.

Ethan Mollick Has a Warning About What AI Agentic Tools Are Actually Doing to Thinking

DuckDuckGo Installs Surged 30% the Week Google Announced AI-First Search

Your SEO Strategy Was Built for a Search Engine That No Longer Exists

The Coffee Club Is Testing a New Loyalty Model. It Is Not About Points.

Nokia Had the iPhone Before Apple. Someone Inside Killed It.

Your SEO Rankings and Your AI Visibility Are Now Different Things

The CFO Is the Most Important Audience Marketing Has. Most Marketers Are Not Talking to Them Well.

The Bot Problem in Digital Advertising Is Getting Worse. IAB Tech Lab Has a Framework.

SharkNinja Picks Howatson+Company as Its ANZ Creative Agency of Record

You Cannot AI Your Way Out of a Bad Org Structure

Most Marketers Are Using AI. Most Are Not Getting Value From It.

Gina Rinehart's Return to Australian Media, Explained

Google Is Retiring Standalone Display Campaigns

The Baby Monitor Brand That Cut Its Search Budget by 80% and Grew

Adzymic Just Launched an AI Creative Agent as a Subscription. The Creative Production Cost Is Trending Toward Zero.

A New Platform Just Started Measuring Brand Visibility Inside LLMs. The Share-of-Voice Metric Has a New Battleground.

LinkedIn Just Launched an All-in-One Small Business Subscription. Selling, Marketing and Hiring in One Dashboard.

Google Just Replaced the Static Lead Form With a Gemini Chat Agent. Most Lead Gen Campaigns Will Need a Rebuild.

Google Just Added Qualified Future Conversions to Analytics 360. The Predictive Metric Is the Real Story.

A TikTok Video Just Overtook a Text Result in Google's Featured Snippet. The First Crack in the Format Is Here.

Meta Just Opened Ads Manager Up to External AI Platforms. The Agentic Layer Now Sits Above the Buying Interface.

Australia's Children's Online Privacy Code Is in Public Consultation Until June 5. Most Marketing Teams Have Not Read the Draft.

Google Just Expanded Preferred Sources and Killed FAQ Rich Results in the Same Quarter. The Publisher Trust Layer Is Getting Rebuilt.

Walmart Just Put Ads Inside Its AI Shopping Agent. Sparky Is Now a Media Surface.

WPP Media and Dentsu Just Posted Two Different Forecasts for the Australian Ad Market. The Gap Is the Story.

Insider One Just Bought Bluecore. The Retail MarTech Consolidation Wave Has a Headline Number.

Anthropic Just Wired Claude Into Adobe Creative Cloud. Figma Stock Dropped Six Per Cent the Same Day.

Anthropic Just Launched Claude for Small Business. The Connector List Is the Story, Not the Branding.

Meta Just Pushed Static Carousels and Video Ads Into Threads. The Quietest Ad Surface Just Got a Lot Louder.

Bruce McWilliam Just Pushed to Nearly 10% of Southern Cross Austereo. The Stokes Camp Now Holds a Bloc Stake.

Digiday Just Said Agentic Advertising Is Closer Than You Think and Further Than You Hope. Six Months for Trading. Years for Trust.

Search Engine Journal Says Google I/O Did Not End SEO. The Real Risk Is Information Agents and the Click Demand Collapse.

Amsterdam Just Became the First Capital to Ban Public Ads for Meat, Fossil Fuels and Aviation. The Australian Industry Should Be Watching.

JPMorgan's Programmatic Lead Just Told the Industry AI Needs Humans in the Lead, Not Just in the Loop. The Fiduciary Argument Is the One to Steal.

X's Latest Filings Just Confirmed Ad Revenue Is Still Way Below Twitter's Peak. Australia's Share Is Now Barely Visible.

AdExchanger Just Called Out the Ad Intelligence Industry. The Tools Were Built for a Pre-AI World. The Decisions Are Not Faster.

Search Engine Land Just Argued 'Fix Everything' Is the Worst SEO Strategy. Most Australian Audits Are Built on It.

MarTech Just Said the AI Marketing Advantage Is Hiding in Your Metadata. Most Brands Have Not Touched It in Years.

MarTech Says the Brand Promise Has to Be Provable in Agentic Commerce. Most Brand Books Are Going to Fail That Test.

Search Engine Journal Just Named the Most Common Marketing Leadership Failure. The Numbers Look Great. The Pipeline Does Not.

AdExchanger Just Asked What 'Premium' Means When AI Slop Floods the Open Web. Engagement Is the Only Thing Left.

Casey Newton Just Asked If the Web Is Being Summarised to Death. Google's Three New Agents Are the Receipt.

WordPress 7.0 Just Made AI Connectors a Core Feature. Security Researchers Are Already Warning About a Rush to Steal API Keys.

Search Engine Land Just Laid Out How to Make a Brand Machine-Readable. Most Australian Sites Will Fail the First Check.

LLM Guidance Does Not Port Across Models the Way SEO Guidance Did. The Optimisation Playbook Just Got Six Times Harder.

The Web Is Now as Fragmented as Mobile Was a Decade Ago. The Measurement Fix Is the Same One Mobile Already Built.

Walmart Just Warned About Price Hikes Because of Fuel Costs. The Demand Read for Australian Brands Is the Subplot.

Loyalty Programs Are Stuck in 2015 While Lifecycle Marketing Moved On. Most Retailers Still Treat Them as Separate Departments.

Sports TV Advertising Is About to Hit $20 Billion While the Rest of TV Bleeds. Live Games Are Now the Last Mass Reach Left.

Coles and Brownes Foods Just Got Fined Over Dairy Code Breaches. The $39,600 Penalty Is the Story, Not the Number.

Spotify Just Wired ElevenLabs Voices Into a Self-Publishing Audiobook Tool. The Audiobook Production Cost Just Hit Zero.

TikTok Shop Just Said US Small Business Sales Climbed 66% in 2025. Two-Thirds of Shoppers Now Open the App to Find Something New.

WPP's Chief AI Officer Just Called the Industry's Agentic AI Boom a 'Teenage Sex' Moment. Most People Talking About It Are Not Doing It.

The Cost-of-Living Crunch Just Showed Up in Australia's Browser History. Cashback, Grocery and Insurance Are Now the Default Tabs.

Burger King UK's CEO Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud: 'Invest in Brand or You'll Surely Die.' The £1B Sales Number Is the Receipt.

OpenAI Just Opened Its ChatGPT Ads Manager to Every US Business. The Spend Floor Is Gone, the CPC Bid Has Arrived.

YouTube Just Pitched Demand Gen as the Anti-Social Feed. The 10% ROAS Lift Is the Number Brands Will Quote.

Mondelez Just Moved Global Oreo Creative to 72andSunny. The Martin Agency Lost the Account and Most of the US Biscuits Portfolio.

Intuit Just Told Mailchimp It Is No Longer an Investment. Customers Should Hear That as a Migration Warning.

Omnicom Was Already Walking Away From LiveRamp. Publicis Just Moved the Drop-Dead Date Forward.

Forty-Five Per Cent of Australians Would Trust a Brand Less if Its Ads Were AI-Generated. The Disclosure Question Is Now a Brand Question.

Google Just Built One AI Marketing Assistant to Replace Six Dashboards. Ask Advisor Is the Bet.

AI Adoption Looks Massive on LinkedIn. New SparkToro and Datos Data Says Consumers Are Quietly Tapping Out.

Video Is the Most Effective Channel for Australian Public Sector Comms. Most Teams Cannot Afford to Use It.

James Murdoch Just Spent A$420 Million on New York Magazine and Vox Podcasts. The Digital Media Carve-Up Is Live.

Programmatic Auctions Have Quietly Rewritten Themselves. Most Buyers Are Still Bidding Like It Is 2018.

Spotify Just Paid Universal Music for Permission to Let Fans Make AI Covers. The Music Industry Picked a Side.

Google Just Brought Meridian Into Analytics 360. The Free Marketing Mix Model Is Now Sitting Inside Your Dashboard.

Spotify Just Built a NotebookLM Rival That Reads Your Inbox. The Daily Briefing Just Became a Product.

Guzman y Gomez Just Walked Away From the United States. The Market Loved It.

Snapchat Just Admitted Last-Click Attribution Is Broken on Its Own Platform. Unified Attribution Is the Patch.

Ipsos Just Told Marketers the Cost-of-Living Crisis Has Killed Persuasion. Proof Is the Only Pitch Left.

Google's Second Core Update of the Year Just Started Rolling Out. Most Sites Will Not Get a Warning.

Reddit Just Pointed at the Industry's Favourite Lie. Last-Click Was Missing 97% of Its Value.

The 'You Need Clean Data Before You Use AI' Argument Just Got Demolished. Most Brands Are Going to Hate the Implication.

Anthropic Is Paying xAI $1.25 Billion a Month for Chips. The Cost Curve of AI Marketing Tools Just Came Into View.

Heaps Normal Built a Non-Alcoholic Beer Brand Worth Watching by Turning a Brewery Into a 'Health Club'. The Retail Lesson Is Bigger Than the Beer.

WordPress 7.0 Just Shipped With Native AI Built Into Core. Forty Per Cent of the Web Now Has a Standardised AI Layer.

Snap Just Admitted Advertisers Do Not Trust Its Numbers. Every Other Platform Should Be Watching the Reaction.

An Australian Marketing Diagnostic Just Plugged Itself Into ChatGPT and Claude For Free. The Pre-Launch Audit Industry Has a Cheaper Version Now.

The Creator Economy Just Got Its First Industry-Backed Qualification. 84% of UK Brands Are Already Spending More on Creators in 2026.

AI Referrals Convert Better Than Anything Else. They Also Walk Away Fastest If You Cannot Explain Why You Were Recommended.

The IAB Just Published the Five Regulatory Changes Every Australian Marketer Needs On Their Calendar.

BYD Just Took the Number One EV Spot in Australia. The CMO Is Spending More Time Fixing the Word 'Chinese' Than Selling Cars.

M&S Posted a 24% Profit Drop and Doubled Down on Value. The Cyber Hit Did Not Change the Strategy.

Most Google Ads Budgets Are Leaking Into Brand Searches They Already Owned. The 70-20-10 Fix Costs Nothing.

The Comms Industry Just Got a Rulebook for Measuring AI Visibility. Marketing Should Steal It.

Google Just Added an AI Audit to Chrome. Then Said You Probably Do Not Need It.

Google Just Folded a Full Creative Agency Into Asset Studio. The Brief Goes In, Video Comes Out.

Pinterest Wants Users to Spend Less Time on Pinterest. "Designing the Exit" Just Called Out Every Other Platform.

DoorDash Just Named an Ex-Leo Australia CEO Its Global CMO. The Amazon-Marketing Playbook Goes Global Next.

AI Search Cites Listicles More Than Anything Else. Sixty-Three Per Cent of All Citations Go to "Best X for Y" Pages.

Mutinex Just Beat Google to Self-Serve MMM. The Australian Measurement Story Got Better Overnight.

Disney, Netflix, NBCU and Fox All Bought Into Agentic TV This Year. The Buy-Side Has Not Caught Up.

Adding Out of Home Lifted ROI by 39% in Analytic Partners' Two-Decade Study. The Pure Digital Media Plan Is Underperforming.

eBay Just Killed Seller Fees in Australia. The Resale Economy Is Now a Three-Player Market.

Nine in Ten Brands Are Invisible to AI Search. The Window Is Open. Most Will Miss It.

X Just Built an AI Tool That Picks Your Influencers for You. The Creator Economy Is Being Disintermediated Again.

IAB Australia Just Drew the Rules for Gen AI in Advertising. Most Marketers Still Do Not Have a Policy.

Microsoft's Top Ad Boss Just Walked. LinkedIn Now Owns the B2B Media Plan Inside the Same Company.

Google Bet Its Next AI Wave on Agents That Live Inside Your Inbox. Marketing Automation Just Took a Step.

AI Shopping Engines Have Started Ignoring Your Brand and Reading Your Reviews. The CX Gap Just Became a Revenue Problem.

Google Just Made AI the Front Door of Search. Australian SEO Built for Ten Blue Links Is Done.

Google Just Made Itself the Cart for Every Shopping Trip on the Internet. Australian Checkout Lands in Months.

One in Five Australian Shoppers Abandon Checkout for Predictable Reasons. The Fix Is Three Clear Rules.

Anthropic Just Bought the Company That Built OpenAI's and Google's SDKs. The Implications Are Bigger Than the Headline.

The Trade Desk Now Lets You Brief a Campaign in Plain English. Claude Builds the Rest.

Thoughtworks Says 95% of Generative AI Pilots Fail. Australian Retailers Need to Hear It Now.

Half of Marketers Now Say Video Is Their Most Important Content Type. TikTok Is Out-Engaging Reels by Four to One.

220 Sites Scaled AI Content. Forty Are Already Bleeding Up to 95% of Their Traffic. The Pattern Is Familiar.

Eighty-Five Per Cent of Ads Never Hold Attention Long Enough to Be Remembered. The 2.5 Second Rule Says Why.

Australian Business Owners Are Putting an AI-Generated PM on Their Social Posts. The Backlash Has a Real Tax Number Behind It.

Four in Five Australians Believe the Supermarkets Are Ripping Them Off. Trust Has Become a Pricing Issue.

AI Visibility Dashboards Cannot Prove ROI on Their Own. Here Is the Five-Layer Measurement Stack That Can.

Amazon Quietly Cut Affiliate Commissions by Up to 50%. The Publisher Economy Just Lost a Pillar.

Google Ads Got 7% More Expensive and 7% More Effective in 2025. The Median Advertiser Is Still Falling Behind.

Jo McAlister Just Left a Top Media Agency to Run a Publisher's New Storytelling Unit. The Direction of Travel Is Obvious.

Publicis Just Spent $2.2 Billion to Own the Identity Layer. The Agency Business Will Never Look the Same.

91% of Marketers Don't Trust the Numbers Their Ad Platforms Show Them. They Are Still Spending Anyway.

Microsoft Clarity Now Tracks How AI Cites Your Content. The Metric Nobody Had Is Now Free.

Marketing Week Asked Whether Training Makes Marketers Better or Just Makes Them All the Same. Both Answers Are Uncomfortable.

Cannes Lions Just Added 7 New Things for 2026. The Creative Brand Lion Tells You Where the Industry Is Heading.

Every Business SMS in Australia Gets Marked 'Unverified' From 1 July Unless You Register. The Deadline Is Six Weeks Away.

Digiday's Programmatic Summit Gave Teams $6K and AI Agents. The Results Tell You Where Media Buying Is Heading.

Private Label Just Hit $46 Billion in Australia. Gen Z Is Spending More on Home Brand Than Boomers.

Walmart Has 73% of Marketing AI-Enabled. The Brands Winning at AI Started With Process, Not Tech.

NZ Auto Ad Spend Jumped 53% in a Month. The Fuel Crisis Is Rewriting Media Budgets in Real Time.

ChatGPT Can Now See Your Bank Balance. OpenAI Just Made Every Fintech App Nervous.

Bots Now Generate 53% of All Web Traffic. Your Analytics Are Lying to You.

The Metric That Matters Most in B2B Marketing Now Lives Inside a Black Box. That Is the Point.

Google Killed FAQ Rich Results. Ahrefs Data Shows Schema Is Not Your AI Search Strategy Either.

Google Just Extended Its Spam Rules to Cover AI Search Manipulation. The GEO Loophole Is Closed.

Only 16% of Brands Can Act on Customer Data in Real Time. SAP Says the Personalisation Gap Is an Execution Problem.

Australian Retail Property Investment Hit $12.7 Billion Last Year. The Money Is Chasing Foot Traffic Again.

Barbeques Galore Is Out of Administration and Back in Private Hands. The Brand Survived Because Australians Do Not Stop Grilling.

WebMCP Is Coming and It Will Change How AI Agents Interact with Your Website. Start Preparing Now.

Google Product Packs Are Becoming the Primary Sales Channel for E-Commerce. Your Product Feed Is Now Your Storefront.

Enero Group's Share Price Holds Steady Despite Losing the BMF Brand. The Market Says the Numbers Matter More.

Custom Visuals Boost Organic Traffic by 110%. Stock Photos Are Dead Weight in Your Content Strategy.

Amazon Rebuilt Alexa as a Shopping Agent. The Voice Assistant Is Now a Conversion Machine.

Sir Martin Sorrell Says AI Transformation Only Happens When the Business Faces an Existential Threat.

Sprout Social Found That 75% of Social Insights Never Reach a Decision-Maker. The Data Dies in the Dashboard.

Only 7% of Australian Businesses Are Broadly Using AI. Andrew Leigh Thinks That Number Needs to Move.

Google Is Killing Offline Conversion Imports as You Know Them. The Data Manager API Takes Over in August.

Burberry Says Marketing Was the Turnaround Lever. Revenue Is Up 4% and Full-Price Sales Are Rising.

One in Four North American Agencies Has Moved to Fixed-Fee Pricing. The Billable Hour Is Losing Ground.

Endeavour Group Drops BMF and Loses Its CMO in a $100 Million Cost-Cutting Blitz

Two Million Australians Watched Women's State of Origin. The Media Buying Implications Are Obvious.

Google Just Published the Official Playbook for Ranking in AI Search. It Says Stop Overthinking It.

MrBeast Is Building a Creator Platform. It Is Bigger Than Influencer Marketing.

Xero XeroForce: The Accounting Platform Just Built an AI Agent Builder

Google Overtakes Apple as the World's Most Valuable Brand. Claude Enters the Top 100.

Microsoft Is Putting LinkedIn Targeting on Connected TV. That Changes the B2B Media Plan.

Hershey Is Using AI Agents to Run Media Mix Modelling Across Its Entire Portfolio

Cerebras IPO Pops 108 Per Cent on Day One. The AI Infrastructure Bet Is Real.

Kantar BrandZ: The Brands Growing Fastest Are the Ones That Mean Something

CTV Ad Fraud Has Surged 140 Per Cent. Here Is What to Watch For.

Coca-Cola Built a Universal Media Measurement Standard. It Took Seven Years.

Google Analytics Now Tracks AI Assistant Traffic as Its Own Channel

Condé Nast CEO Says Plan for Zero Search Traffic. He Is Not Wrong.

Inside ChatGPT Search: How It Queries the Web and What It Means for Your Content

AI Agents Are Entering Programmatic Advertising. The Guardrails Are Coming With Them.

Meta Is Projected to Hit $240 Billion in Ad Revenue This Year. Here Is Where That Money Comes From.

Netflix Ad Tier Doubles Its Geographic Reach and the Implications Are Bigger Than You Think

The Middle of Creative Production Is Disappearing. Here Is What Fills the Gap.

Temple and Webster Hit Historic Lows and Changed CEOs. Consumer Confidence Is the Story Underneath.

Good Content Is No Longer Enough to Rank on Google. Here Is What Changed.

Google AI Overviews Are 44% More Likely to Criticise Your Brand Than ChatGPT

The Ad Tech Stack Behind OpenAI Is Taking Shape. Here Is Who Is Building It.

Getting Into AI's Recommendation Set Is a Two-Stage Problem. Most Brands Fail at Stage One.

HubSpot Lost 19% of Its Market Cap in a Day. The Reason Matters More Than the Drop.

Adobe Says AI-Referred Retail Traffic Grew 393%. The Conversion Numbers Are More Interesting.

Coles Just Lost a Federal Court Case Over Down Down Pricing. Penalties Coming June.

ANZ Retail Media Just Shifted From Building to Proving. Here Is What the Report Card Shows.

79% of Brands Think They Understand Their Customers. 44% of Customers Disagree.

Google's Search Query Reports Might Not Show What You Think They Show

YouTube Just Turned Your TV Into a Shopfront. Most Brands Aren't Ready.

TikTok Just Gave AI Agents the Keys to Your Ad Account

oOh Media Cut 82 Jobs and Walked Away From Retail Media. Here Is What That Tells You.

Amazon Australia Is Quietly Building a Retail Media Network. Most Brands Are Not Ready for What That Means.

LinkedIn Just Passed 18 Million Australian Members. Here Is Why That Number Matters Less Than You Think.

TikTok's Australian E-Commerce Push Is Accelerating. The Platform Wants to Be Where You Buy, Not Just Browse.

Meta Just Reported A$1.8 Billion in Australian Ad Revenue. Here Is Where That Money Actually Went.

The Cairns Crocodiles Are Back in the NBL. The Rebrand Is a Case Study in Regional Sports Marketing.

Xero Went Down Twice in a Week. If Your Clients Noticed Before You Did, That Is the Problem.

Perplexity Is Coming for Your Search Traffic. Google Is Not Your Only Problem Anymore.

Half of Australians Scroll Out of Pure Habit. Your Content Strategy Probably Relies on It.

Last-Click Attribution Is a Participation Trophy. Here Is What to Measure Instead.

Ad Standards Just Slapped White Fox Boutique. Every DTC Brand Should Be Watching.

IAB Australia Just Published a Guide to Prompting LLMs. It Is Better Than You Would Expect.

Budget 2026 Just Landed. Here Is What Actually Matters for Australian Small Businesses.

Dentsu Has Killed Merkle in Australia and New Zealand. The Salesforce Team Is Being Sold Off.

A Brazilian Site Lost 90% of Its Traffic to Soft 404s. It Took a Year to Notice.

Google Ads Just Got Gemini-Powered Dashboards. The Days of Manually Building Reports Are Numbered.

Amazon Can Now Change Your TV Ad Based on Whether You Have Already Seen It. Dynamic TV Creative Is Live.

Google Ads Will Auto-Link Your YouTube Channel in June. You Have Weeks to Decide If That Is What You Want.

56% of CMOs Say They Cannot Afford Their Own Strategy. Gartner's New Survey Exposes the Budget Reality.

OpenAI Launched a Self-Serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT. The $50K Minimum Is Gone.

Google Now Evaluates Core Web Vitals as a Single Composite Score. Here Is What Changes for Your Site.

Threads Just Opened Ad Verification to IAS and DoubleVerify. Brand Safety on Meta's Twitter Killer Just Got Real.

Meta Just Made Pixel and CAPI Setup Zero-Code with AI. The Tracking Barrier Just Dropped.

Heineken Just Consolidated Its Global Creative into One Agency Network. The Efficiency Play Has a Cost.

BCG Says Agentic Customers Are Already Here. Most Businesses Are Still Marketing to Passive Ones.

AI Marketing Startups Have Raised $3.7 Billion in 2026 So Far. Most of It Is Chasing the Same Problem.

Retail Media Is About to Surpass Total TV Ad Revenue in Australia. The Power Shift Nobody Planned For.

Australia's Privacy Act Is About to Cover 100,000 More Businesses. Most of Them Are Not Ready.

Meta Cut Its Engaged-View Window to 5 Seconds. Your ROAS Just Went Up Without Anything Changing.

Meta Just Replaced Post Engagement with Maximize Interactions. Here Is What Changes.

Australia's Ad Market Is Heading for $30.7 Billion. Where the Money Is Actually Going.

Google Preferred Sources Is Now a Global Ranking Signal. Brand Recognition Just Became Measurable.

Google Is Adding More Links to AI Search. It Is Still Not Giving Publishers Click Data.

Google AI Overviews Now Surface Reddit Quotes and Label Your Subscriptions. The Click Game Just Changed.

The Martech Landscape Hit 15,505 Products and Basically Stopped Growing. The Shakeout Is Here.

WPP's US President Just Stepped Down. The Elevate28 Restructure Is Getting Real.

Pinterest Just Crossed $1 Billion in Quarterly Revenue. Performance+ Is the Reason.

Monks Just Launched an AI Creative Engine in APAC. Here's Why the Timing Matters.

White Fox Got Caught Promoting Binge Drinking. Then Ignored the Ruling.

The $20,000 Instant Asset Write-Off Is Now Permanent. Here's What It Means for Your Marketing Budget.

Country Road Group Just Moved Five Brands to Shopify. Unified Commerce Is No Longer Optional.

An Ex-Woolworths AI Lead Just Launched a Marketing Decision Engine. It's Worth Watching.

JB Hi-Fi Is Turning 207 Stores Into an Ad Network. Retail Media Just Got Physical.

Ahrefs Tested Schema Markup for AI Citations. It Barely Moved the Needle.

Google Ads Is Deleting Your Historical Data. You Have Weeks to Act.

The Brands Are Fed Up With Black-Box Ad Platforms. Now What?

Memes Are Not a Side Channel Anymore. They Are a Marketing Strategy.

The Agent Runtime Wars Have Started. Cloudflare, OpenAI and Google Are All Building the Infrastructure for Agentic AI.

NYT Digital Ad Revenue Grew 32% in Q1. The Playbook Is Not What You Think.

Budget 2026: Treasury Warns Super Rules Are Discouraging Startup Investment in Australia

SEO's New Goal Is Not Rankings. It Is Recognition.

AI Search Traffic Converts 42% Better Than Traditional Search. The Catch Is Volume.

AI Adoption Is at 73%. AI Excitement Is at 19%. That Gap Is the Story.

Monash Research: Most Australians Fear Data Misuse but Fewer Than One in Five Understand How It Happens

The Boulder Problem: Marketers Are Spending More While Consumers Have Less

Amplitude Acquires Statsig's Code and Team for $16M ARR. OpenAI Keeps the Customers.

Gmail's AI Inbox Is Quietly Redefining Email Deliverability

72% of Australians Are Concerned About AI-Generated Advertising. That Should Change How You Use It.

Cloudflare Says AI Made 1,100 Jobs Obsolete. The Productivity Gains Are Real. So Is the Displacement.

Google Ads Now Surfaces Tag Manager Controls Inside the Platform. That Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds.

Google Just Killed FAQ Rich Results. Here Is What That Actually Means for Your Traffic.

Brands Are Financing Feature Films Now. The Cairns Crocodiles Just Showed How It Works.

A WOOH Board Member Warns That an Advertising Ban Could Trigger a Domino Effect Across Other Categories.

Rising Petrol and Delivery Costs Are Making Click and Collect Australia's Most Efficient Fulfilment Model. The Data Backs It Up.

NordVPN's Australian TV Ad Got Pulled for Showing a Motorcyclist Touching Their Phone. The Real Problem Is Deeper.

The Iconic Called a Creative Pitch. Dentsu Walked Away After Four Years and a 34% Brand Awareness Lift.

CTV Now Accounts for 51% of Magnite's Revenue. The Company Says Agentic AI Will Increase Its Volume, Not Replace It.

Marketing Week Says Humour Works in B2B. The Data Agrees, but Most B2B Marketers Still Will Not Try It.

VFC and Omnicom Are Running Australia's Most Extensive Attention Study. The First Target Is Streaming Ad Frequency.

InMobi Just Bought MobileAction and Its Dataset of 90 Million Ad Creatives. The iOS Intelligence Gap Is Closing.

MNTN's QuickFrame AI 3.0 Generates TV-Quality Ads in 12 Minutes. It Just Posted 25% Revenue Growth.

A Major CTV Publisher Botched Its UID2 Setup. The Trade Desk Didn't Catch It.

Vodafone's Ali Wong Ad Breached the AANA Code. The Regional Australia Backlash Was Predictable.

PubMatic Has Run 30 Fully Autonomous Ad Campaigns. Every Advertiser Came Back for More.

Allianz Australia Ran a Fully AI-Generated TV Ad. It Cost Half the Price and Took 10% Less Time.

News Corp's News Division Lost 55% of Its Profit. Its AI Licensing Deals Keep Growing.

McDonald's CEO Says Marketing Does More Than Create Buzz. The Q1 Numbers Back Him Up.

Google AI Max Is Replacing DSA. Advertisers Are Losing Landing Page Control and Nobody Is Talking About It.

Fishburners Just Went Into Administration. Australia's Oldest Startup Hub Could Not Solve Its Own Business Model.

Canva Copped a $792,000 Fine for Filing Its Financials 11 Months Late. The Compliance Cost of Hypergrowth.

OpenAI Just Launched Three Voice Intelligence APIs. The Conversational Interface Is No Longer Optional.

Musk Dissolved xAI Into SpaceX. Every Co-Founder Has Left. That Tells You Everything.

Kraft Heinz Increased Marketing Spend by 37% in Q1. The CFO Called It an Investment, Not a Cost.

Vibe-Coded Apps Are Shipping With Customer Data Exposed. The Security Bill Is Coming.

Regional Australia Is a $250 Billion Market. Most Marketers Are Still Treating It Like an Afterthought.

Amazon and LinkedIn Just Built a B2B Targeting Layer for Connected TV. That Changes the Media Plan.

ElevenLabs Opens a Sydney Office. The Voice AI Race in Australia Just Got Real.

The Trade Desk Posts $689 Million in Revenue. Its Chief Strategy Officer Left for OpenAI the Same Week.

ARN Lost $26 Million in Ad Revenue Because of Kyle Sandilands. The Brand Safety Reckoning Is Real.

Google Just Made Bidding Aware of the Entire Customer Journey. Most Advertisers Are Not Ready.

OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads to Five New Markets. Australia Is Already in the Pilot.

Adobe Builds an AI That Learns Your Brand Better Than Your Team Does

Platypus Shoes Bets Its Loyalty Program on Gigs, Not Discounts

Perplexity Dropped Ads Entirely. Now It Is Chasing $650 Million on Subscriptions Alone.

Agencies Are Complicit in Australia's Abusive Pitch Culture. TrinityP3 Says So.

Australia's Only Privacy Code Gets an AI Overhaul

Criteo Has a $75 Million Hole and No Agentic AI Revenue to Fill It

Google Analytics Data API Now Exposes Cross-Channel Conversion Data

Google Just Made Incrementality Testing Open Source. Meridian GeoX Changes the Measurement Game.

The CPC Pain Is Real. Google's AI Max Has Pushed Search Costs Up 15 to 25% in Its First Year.

Google AI Overviews Will Now Quote Reddit Directly. The Citation Landscape Just Shifted Again.

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5 Instant as the Default ChatGPT Model. Hallucinations Drop 52%.

Woolworths Puts Its $8 Million Creative Account Up for Pitch. M+C Saatchi Is Not Defending.

Video Advertising Hits 29% of Australia's Online Ad Spend. The Planning Cycle Is Getting Shorter.

Dentsu Kills Carat and iProspect in Australia. The Holding Company Rebrand Is Complete.

Two-Thirds of Australian Businesses Now Sell Through Social Media. PayPal Has the Numbers.

Programmatic DOOH Investment Is About to Surge 44%. Here Is Why It Matters for Digital Marketers.

Apollo.io Just Launched Inside ChatGPT. Your SDRs Will Never Open a Browser Tab Again.

The CRO Software Market Is Heading for $23 Billion. AI Testing Is the Reason.

SAS Just Launched an Agentic AI Accelerator and an MCP Server. Enterprise Marketing AI Is Getting Real Infrastructure.

AI Search Referral Traffic Converts 22% Higher Than Traditional Organic. A New Channel Is Forming.

Meta Just Made Server-Side Tracking a One-Click Setup. Every Small Advertiser Should Pay Attention.

Outreach Rebranded to Outreach.ai and Launched AI Agents That Can Run Your Sales Pipeline. The Agentic Sales Stack Is Here.

Australia's Ad Market Will Hit $30.7 Billion This Year. Here Is Where the Money Is Actually Going.

Threads Now Has 400 Million Users and Global App Ads. Meta Just Built a New Paid Channel Overnight.

93% of AI Mode Queries End Without a Click. The Zero-Click Problem Just Got a Lot Worse.

Over 90% of CTV Ad Spend Is Now Programmatic. The Last Manual Holdout Is Falling.

Google Is Killing Dynamic Search Ads in September. Here Is Your Migration Playbook.

A Field Study Just Confirmed What Everyone Suspected. AI Overviews Cut Organic Clicks by 38%.

Hightouch Just Raised $150 Million to Build the Agentic Marketing Platform. The Valuation Says Everything.

Canva Just Bought an AI Agent Company and a Marketing Automation Platform. The Design Tool Era Is Over.

The Federal Budget Just Extended TV Broadcasting Tax Breaks for Two More Years

Personalised Video Marketing Is Growing Faster Than Most Teams Are Prepared For

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TikTok Just Plugged Into Vistar Media for Programmatic Billboards. Here Is What That Means.

Fake Reviews Are Eroding Consumer Trust Faster Than Platforms Can Fix It

You Spent $250K on an Agency Last Year. Can You Tie Any of It to Revenue?

Performance Max and Standard Shopping Are No Longer Competing. They Are Converging.

Anthropic and OpenAI Are Both Launching Enterprise Joint Ventures. The Target Is the Same.

Brand Authority Is Replacing Topical Authority in AI Search Results

Image AI Apps Are Surging Past Chatbots in Downloads. The Revenue Is Not Following.

Google Ads CTR Is Rising Across 21,000 Accounts. Conversions Are Not.

Coles 360 Just Hired a Product Lead From Target's Retail Media Network. The Retail Media Arms Race in Australia Is Accelerating.

Omnicom Oceania Is Putting a Thousand People Through the MiniMBA. That Is Not Training. That Is Infrastructure.

Pacific Equity Partners Just Lobbed a $747 Million Bid for oOh!media. The Out-of-Home Land Grab Is On.

The FTC Just Banned a Data Broker From Selling Location Data Tied to Clinics, Churches and Shelters. Every Marketer Using Location Targeting Should Pay Attention.

Google Just Admitted Search Console Data Was Wrong for Nearly a Year. Here Is What to Do About It.

Losing Traffic to AI Search? The Answer Might Be Video. Here Is Why.

Only 5% of Marketing Leaders Know Why Customers Choose Their Brand. The Other 95% Are Guessing.

Your Business Texts Will Say 'Unverified' From July Unless You Register Now. Here Is What ACMA Changed.

Sierra Just Raised $950 Million at a $15.8 Billion Valuation. The Enterprise AI Agent Market Is Not Slowing Down.

Coles and Woolworths Are Beating Amazon in AI Search Visibility. That Should Worry Every Other Retailer.

Dentsu Australia Just Posted a $77 Million Loss. The Agency Holding Company Model Is Cracking.

OpenAI Just Turned 200 Million Free Users Into an Ad Audience. Here Is What Marketers Need to Know.

The Oscars Just Banned AI Actors and AI Scripts. The Content Authenticity Debate Has a New Front.

Ask Jeeves Is Dead. After 29 Years, IAC Pulled the Plug on Ask.com.

2,500 Australian Retailers Are Running Their Industry From a WhatsApp Group. Here Is What They Built.

Your Website Is a Source Now, Not a Megaphone. Build It That Way.

An AI Startup Stole the 'This Is Fine' Meme for an Ad. The Creator Is Not Fine About It.

Click Frenzy Is Back. The Catch Founders Just Bought It Out of Liquidation.

Google and Microsoft Just Reported. Search Ad Revenue Is Accelerating.

Australia Is the Number One Destination for UK Businesses Looking to Expand. Here Is What That Means.

Kellanova Dumps Bastion After One Year, Returns Media to Zenith. The Publicis Gravity Well Strikes Again.

AI Is About to Make Bad Product Reviews Impossible to Hide. Your Marketing Cannot Outrun a Three-Star Rating.

Google Says Build Your Website for AI Agents, Not Just Humans. Here Is What That Actually Means.

Australia's Instant Asset Write-Off Could Become Permanent. That Changes How You Budget for Marketing.

Google's Preferred Sources Feature Just Went Global. Your Readers Can Now Boost You in Search.

Adthena Is Tracking 50,000 ChatGPT Ad Placements a Day. The Data Tells You Exactly Who Is Winning.

Google Ads API v20 Dies on June 10. If You Have Not Migrated, Start Today.

Two Thirds of Australian Businesses Now Sell Through Social Media. The Channel Has Graduated.

Marketers Are Spending More on AI Visibility Tools and Getting Inconsistent Results Back

Forrester Says Most B2B Buyers Pick Their Vendor Before You Even Know They Are Looking

Specsavers Changed Its Tagline for the First Time in 22 Years. There Is a Lesson in the Restraint.

Australia Post Is Hiking Parcel Surcharges Again. Ecommerce Margins Just Got Thinner.

Microsoft Ads Opens the PMax Black Box. You Can Finally See Where Your Money Goes.

Meta Just Posted $56 Billion in a Single Quarter. Here Is What It Means for Your Ad Costs.

Social Media Just Overtook Search in Australian Ad Spend. That Is Not a Blip.

Reddit Ad Revenue Jumped 74% in Q1. The Platform Most Marketers Ignore Is Quietly Scaling.

UK Ad Spend Hit £46.7 Billion in 2025. Social Was the Fastest-Growing Channel. Retail Media Grew 17.5%.

Retail Media Still Has a Measurement Problem. Every Network Measures Differently and Brands Are Paying for It.

Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Has Been Live Three Months. The Government's Own Data Says Platforms Aren't Complying.

Expedia Is Partnering with IShowSpeed. The Creator Economy Just Got a Fortune 500 Brand as Its Biggest Validator.

ChatGPT Uninstalls Are Up 132%. The App's Growth Story Has a Serious Crack.

OzTAM Launches Interactive Streamscape Dashboard. Q1 2026 Data Shows Broadcast Still Holds 62.6% of Australian Viewing.

Publishers Are Growing Traffic Through Push Notifications and Peer Sharing. AI Referrals Account for Less Than 1%.

Microsoft Copilot Has 20 Million Paid Users. The Enterprise AI Adoption Story Just Changed.

Can a Fake Brand Win in AI Search? Ahrefs Built One to Find Out. The Results Are Uncomfortable.

Meta Is Opening Its Ad Ecosystem to Third-Party AI Tools. Full Automation by End of 2026.

Snapchat Is Putting Brand AI Agents in Your DMs. 950 Billion Chats Say That Might Actually Work.

Gartner Says 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Cancelled by 2027. The Hype Cycle Just Hit a Wall.

WPP Australia Posts Sixth Straight Quarter of Decline. Publicis Grows 7.6% in the Same Market.

oOh!Media Gets $747 Million Takeover Bid from PEP. Australia's OOH Market Just Got Interesting.

Alphabet Q1: Search Revenue Up 19%, Queries Hit All-Time High. Search Is Not Dead.

Amazon Advertising Crosses $70 Billion. It Is Now Bigger Than YouTube, Snap and Pinterest Combined.

Dentsu Launches Content Engine, Reuniting Media and Creative Production

Canva Acquires Ortto and Simtheory, Enters Marketing Automation

Australia's Ad Market Forecast to Hit $30.7 Billion in 2026

AI Bot Traffic Surges 300% as Publishers Bear the Brunt

IAS Launches Total TV. CTV Measurement Finally Gets Linear-Like Transparency.

POSSIBLE Miami: The Ad Industry Agrees Agentic AI Is Real. Autonomous Buying Is Not.

Retail Media CPCs Fall for the First Time on Record While Spend Grows 27%

Omnicom Q1: Media Hits 52% of Revenue. Traditional Advertising Declines.

Netflix Ad CPMs Settle Into the Low $20s. The CTV Price War Has a Floor.

B2B Creator Marketing Investment Jumps 171%. LinkedIn Makes It Official.

Australia's Digital ID System Opens to the Private Sector From November

Daily Mail Australia Goes Live With Dynamic Paywall. Subscriptions Are Now Core.

Amazon Merges DSP and Ads Console Into One Campaign Manager

Meta Lets Advertisers Describe Their Audience in Plain English. Targeting Just Changed.

AI Chatbots Are Coming for Retail Media's $38 Billion Search Ad Market

WPP Revives ANZ CEO Role After Five Years. Rose Herceg Gets the Title.

Brands Are Putting AI Agents Inside Publisher Chatbots. Here Is What That Actually Means.

OpenAI Breaks Free From Microsoft. The AI Cloud War Just Got Real.

The ATO Is Coming for Your AI Tax Advice. Good.

PayPal Just Built the Ad Identity Graph That Google and Meta Can't

Pinterest Leaves the Platform. CTV Audience Extension Changes the Paid Media Map.

Sprinklr Ships Spring '26 Release: AI Agents Get Explainable, Copilots Get Proactive

OpenAI Launches Self-Serve Ads Manager with $50K Minimum Spend

Prophet Releases MMM 101 Guide to Help Australian Marketers Prove Impact to the C-Suite

TikTok Shop Closes In on $20 Billion as Social Commerce Crosses $100 Billion

Creator Advertising Crosses $37 Billion and Becomes a Permanent Media Line Item

Mondelez Hires a Global Lead for Agentic Commerce. The $3 Trillion Bet Is On.

TWE's In-House Agency Splash Wins Agency of the Year at IHAC Awards

Microsoft Launches AI Max for Search and Ads Inside Copilot Answers

The Trade Desk Launches Koa Agents: AI Takes Over Media Buying

Adthena Launches AdBridge: Convert Google Ads Campaigns to ChatGPT in One Click

Google Search Is Moving From Answers to Actions. SEO Must Follow.

The Non-Human Web Is Here. Nobody Builds the Page. Nobody Visits It.

42% of Australian Advertisers Increased Affiliate Spend This Year

Google PMax Gets A/B Asset Testing. Here Is How It Works.

Meta Wants Your TV. CTV Expansion Is Its Next Growth Play.

Google Ads Now Requires MFA for API Access. Check Your Tokens.

Harvey Norman Hit With Class Action Over Misleading Interest-Free Ads

Australia's Housing Crisis Is Coming for Your Marketing Budget

Adobe Kills Experience Cloud. CX Enterprise and AI Agents Take Over.

AI Overview CTR Shows Early Recovery After 18-Month Decline

Google AI Director Outlines Agentic Engine Optimisation Playbook

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5 Six Weeks After GPT-5.4 as Model Cadence Accelerates

Google Demand Gen Ads Hit by Week-Long Review Delays

Anthropic Tests Agent-on-Agent Commerce: AI Bots Closed 186 Real Deals

Cohere Acquires Aleph Alpha in $20 Billion Sovereign AI Merger

Meta Signs Multibillion-Dollar Deal for Amazon Graviton AI Chips

DeepSeek V4 Preview Drops: Open-Source Model Closes Gap with Frontier AI

ACMA Flags Rising AI Use in Australian Gambling as Harm Risks Mount

ChatGPT Ads Launch in Australia with University of New England as Early Pilot

Google Plans $40 Billion Investment in Anthropic at $350 Billion Valuation

Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs to Fund $135 Billion AI Infrastructure Push

ACCC Flags Rising Consumer Complaints in Electronics and Whitegoods

LinkedIn Declares B2B Marketing Has Entered the Outcomes Era at NewFronts 2026

ACCC Proposes New NBN Regulation to Lift Service Quality and Consumer Protections

Meta Made $16 Billion From Scam Ads. Now It Is Being Sued in Australia.

HubSpot Launches an Answer Engine Optimisation Tool

Google Ads Advisor Now Fixes Campaigns in Real Time

Meta Simplifies Pixel and Conversions API Setup to One Click

ChatGPT Ads Switch to Cost-Per-Click. CPMs Dropped 58% in 10 Weeks.

Shopify Products Are Now Discoverable Inside ChatGPT, Google AI and Gemini

Google's March 2026 Core Update Is Done. Here Is What the Data Shows.

Google Is Killing Dynamic Search Ads. AI Max Takes Over in September.

Shopify Launches Tinker: 100 Free AI Creative Tools in One App

Meta's AI-Powered Pixel Update Simplifies Tracking for Small Businesses

AI Overviews Now Appear on Up to 48% of Searches. Organic Click-Through Rates Are Dropping Fast.

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Google Ads Will Block Duplicate Lookalike Audiences from April 30

HubSpot Launches an Answer Engine Optimisation Tool. The AEO Era Is Here.

GA4 and Google Ads Data Controls Are Merging in June. Consent Mode Becomes the Single Source.

Google Is Force-Migrating Dynamic Search Ads to AI Max. Here Is Your Timeline.

Google's March 2026 Core Update Is Done. Strong Brands Won. Intermediaries Lost.

Google Ads Collapses Enhanced Conversions Into a Single Toggle in June

HubSpot Launches Answer Engine Optimisation Tool for ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity

Shopify Opens B2B Wholesale Features to All Plans at No Extra Cost

AI Overviews Now Appear on 25% of Google Searches. Organic CTR Is Dropping.

Meta Changes How Click Attribution Works Across All Ad Formats

Meta Overhauls How Ad Formats Are Selected. Manual Control Is Shrinking.

Google Brings Ads Into AI Mode Search Results

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Meta Overhauls Ad Format Selection: Single Ads Now Serve Multiple Formats

Google Ads Enforces Lookalike Audience Uniqueness Check on April 30

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Google March 2026 Core Update Complete: 55% of Sites Hit with Ranking Shifts

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Threads Rolls Out Global Ads With 400 Million Monthly Users

Salesforce Launches Headless 360: CRM Built for AI Agents

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Meta Set to Overtake Google in Digital Ad Revenue for First Time

ChatGPT Ad Pilot Expands: OpenAI Tests Ads Alongside AI Answers

GA4 Now Imports Meta Ads and TikTok Ads Data Directly

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Google Blocked 8.3 Billion Ads in 2025: Enforcement Is Shifting to AI

Shopify Products Now Discoverable Inside ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI

AI Overviews Now Trigger on 25% of Searches. Organic CTR Has Collapsed.

GA4 Loses Control of Your Ad Data in June: Consent Mode Takes Over

Google Kills Dynamic Search Ads: AI Max Migration Starts Now

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LinkedIn Now Commands 41% of B2B Ad Budgets

Klaviyo Launches RCS Messaging for Ecommerce

Google Ads AI Max Campaigns Get Text Asset Guidelines

Reddit Launches Collection Ads with Shoppable Tiles

Google Launches Universal Commerce Protocol for AI Shopping

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HubSpot Moves to Outcome-Based Pricing for AI Agents

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