NMS Editorial Team

NMS Editorial Team

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Netflix Says VOID Is Just Research. Its $3B Ad Target Says Otherwise.

Brita's Singing Shark Made 'Be Unhinged' Look Like Lazy Advice

Brita produced roughly 150 pieces of social content per month throughout 2025 and earned 44 million organic views in a single month. The most visible formats feature a cartoon shark singing about hydration, a deadpan robot, and a kawaii kitten anthem. The strategy looks chaotic. The mechanics underneath are closer

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Gmail's AI Inbox Just Made Your Email Delivery Rate Meaningless

Mailbox providers accepted 97% of marketing emails in Q1 2026, according to Validity's benchmark data, but only 60% of those emails reached a location where a human could actually see them. The remaining 37 points vanished into spam folders, promotions sorting, and AI-driven suppression. That gap between "

Forbes pivots from traffic-dependent advertising to wine commerce as publisher search referrals decline 37% in Q1 2026

Forbes Lost 37% of Its Traffic and Responded by Selling Wine

Forbes lost 37% of its site traffic year-over-year in Q1 2026. Instead of publishing harder, the company is opening a wine vertical, a commerce shop, and a quarterly wine club. The signal for content marketers: if the publisher with arguably the highest domain authority on the internet can't

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Google Reversed Its Spam Report Policy After Six Years of Saying Otherwise

Google updated its spam report documentation on April 15, 2026 to state that spam reports "may be used to take manual action against violations." This reverses a policy Google explicitly set in July 2020, when it removed all language connecting spam reports to manual actions. The update also

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Meta Built One-Click CAPI to Fix Its Own Signal Problem

Meta released a one-click Conversions API setup in Events Manager on April 15, 2026, eliminating the server infrastructure and developer coordination that previously made CAPI a multi-week project. The feature targets roughly 40% of Meta advertisers still running pixel-only tracking, where ad blockers and browser restrictions cause 30 to 60%