NMS Editorial Team

NMS Editorial Team

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OpenAI's Ad Roadmap Just Leaked Through Three Job Listings

OpenAI is building image, video, native, conversational and interactive ad formats for ChatGPT, according to three engineering job listings posted to its careers page and reported by Digiday on July 1, 2026. The live ad today is still just a headline, an image and a link. The roadmap those roles

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Apple MPP Broke Your Open Rate. Four Metrics That Still Tell the Truth.

Apple Mail Privacy Protection pre-loads every tracking pixel, counting an email as opened whether or not a human ever saw it. One study found total open rates jumped from 22.6% to 40.5% after MPP rolled out, nearly doubling without a single extra person reading anything. With Apple Mail

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AI Overviews Cut Clicks 39.8% in the First Randomized Test (Paid Untouched)

A randomized field experiment of 1,065 US desktop users found that Google AI Overviews cut organic clicks by 39.8% and pushed zero-click searches up 34.5% when a summary appeared. Sponsored clicks barely moved. It is the first causal test of AI Overviews rather than another before-and-after correlation,

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Google's Search Chief Blames Your Paywall for the Traffic AI Took

Liz Reid, Google's head of Search, told the AI Inside podcast in late June 2026 that paywalls, not AI, cause most of the traffic drops publishers keep complaining about. Her exact response to sites that add a paywall and then watch clicks fall: "yes, that is what

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Google Folded Enhanced Conversions Into One Toggle (Watch the June 15 Cutoff)

Google Ads is collapsing enhanced conversions into a single on/off toggle in June 2026, removing the old choice between the Google tag, Google Tag Manager, and the Ads API. The catch sits underneath the simplification: starting June 15, 2026, the legacy Google Ads API stops accepting offline conversion imports

Noble Mobile Turned "Use Us Less" Into Its Entire Growth Strategy

Noble Mobile, the wireless carrier founded by Andrew Yang, just bundled the minimalist Light Phone III into a plan that pays customers up to $5 for every gigabyte of data they do not use. The product mechanic is the marketing. Instead of bidding for a slice of someone's

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California's Loud-Ad Ban Lands on Advertisers, Not Just Netflix

California's SB 576 makes it illegal on July 1, 2026 for any streaming service operating in the state to run ad audio louder than the program it interrupts. The headlines pinned this on Netflix and Hulu, but the compliance work runs upstream into the creative itself: a spot