NMS Editorial Team

NMS Editorial Team

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Every Google-Certified CMP Failed the Opt-Out Audit (All 11 of Them)

webXray scanned 7,634 California websites in March 2026 and ran every page twice: once with the Global Privacy Control opt-out signal enabled, once without. Eleven Google-certified consent management platforms were in the sample. All 11 failed. Advertising cookies fired on every site regardless of the GPC flag, exposing roughly

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Google's 80% Cut in False Ad Suspensions Came From Moving the Enforcement to the Ad Level

Google blocked 8.3 billion bad ads in 2025 and suspended 24.9 million advertiser accounts, according to its 2025 Ads Safety Report published April 16, 2026. Gemini-powered review cut incorrect advertiser suspensions by 80 percent year-over-year. The same week, a London agency saw more than 1,500 ads disapproved

Liquid Death's Pop-Tarts Carnage Is Nostalgia Arbitrage

Liquid Death and Pop-Tarts launched Pop-Tarts Carnage on April 16, 2026, a limited-edition Frosted Strawberry iced tea packaged in Liquid Death's death-metal tallboy can, first reported by Adweek. It is the fourth major Liquid Death collab in roughly eighteen months, after e.l.f. Corpse Paint, the Spotify

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Yelp's 15% Trust Number Is the Data SEOs Should Use to Defend Their Budgets

Yelp commissioned a Morning Consult survey of 2,202 U.S. adults between February 26 and 28, 2026, and found that 65% had used AI-powered search in the past six months while only 15% trust the results "a lot." The gap matters because 63% of respondents said they

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AI Cut 13% of Entry-Level Hiring and Marketing Isn't Budgeting for 2031

Entry-level US workers ages 22-25 saw employment fall 13% in the most AI-exposed jobs from late 2022 through mid-2025, according to Stanford's Digital Economy Lab. Boston Consulting Group now estimates 90% of marketing manager tasks face some level of AI disruption. Teams cutting junior hires today are quietly

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AI Shoppers Outconvert Humans by 42% on Retail Sites (Up From 38% Worse)

AI-referred traffic to US retailers grew 393% in Q1 2026 and now converts 42% better than non-AI traffic, according to Adobe Analytics. A year earlier, that same AI traffic was converting 38% worse than human visitors. The fix most retailers still have not made: roughly 34% of product pages are