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YouTube Gave SiriusXM 212M Audio Listeners Because It Couldn't Monetize Them

YouTube handed SiriusXM Media exclusive sales rights to its US audio ad inventory starting fall 2026, covering 212 million monthly US listeners across podcasts, talk shows, and background music on the platform. The deal is Google quietly admitting that audio ads require a specialist sales desk it never built. For

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Meta Rewrote Click Attribution and Dropped the Engaged-View Window to 5 Seconds

Meta rolled out a new default attribution setting in March 2026, and the rollout is continuing progressively through April: 7-day click, 1-day engage-through, 1-day view, applied to campaigns optimizing for website or in-store conversions. Only real link clicks now qualify as click-through. Likes, shares, and saves moved into a renamed

Pinterest Hid the Retail Ad-Mix Data That Advertisers Needed Three Quarters Ago

Pinterest was sued on April 17, 2026 in federal court in California (case 3:26-cv-02745), naming CEO William Ready and CFO Julia Donnelly as defendants. The complaint alleges they hid how heavily the company's revenue depended on tariff-exposed retail advertisers while selling 421,903 shares for $13.5

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Netflix's Vertical Feed Puts Reels-Style Inventory Inside a $30 CTV CPM

Netflix confirmed on April 17 it is launching a TikTok-style vertical video feed in its mobile app at the end of April 2026, paired with GenAI-based recommendations. That feed arrives as Netflix chases a $3 billion 2026 ad target and readies Q2 interactive ad formats, creating inventory that looks less

Google Is Closing the Ads API Hijack Loophole With Mandatory MFA on April 21

Google is making multi-factor authentication mandatory for new Google Ads API OAuth 2.0 refresh tokens starting April 21, 2026. Existing tokens keep working, but the second credentials need re-auth, the TWO_STEP_VERIFICATION_NOT_ENROLLED error stops the job cold. Agencies running Google Ads Scripts, Editor, BigQuery Data Transfer,

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Bauer Killed Most of Its German Websites and Named AI Search the Culprit

Bauer Media Group will close Bauer Xcel Media Deutschland on September 30, 2026, pulling the websites for Bravo, Cosmopolitan, and Autozeitung offline and eliminating roughly 160 digital publishing jobs. The official April 14 announcement names AI search as the cause, citing Ahrefs data showing AI Overview results now correlate with

Meta's Suite of Truth Is a Measurement Framework Where Meta Grades Itself

Meta published "Building a Suite of Truth" on May 28, 2025, recommending advertisers combine rules-based attribution, MMM, and randomized experiments. The framework is backed by 307 Meta Conversion Lift studies and claims last-click attribution hides 31% of Meta's incremental conversions. All three measurement tiers, as Meta