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Meta is about to pass Google in worldwide ad revenue — the identity-data trade finally closing the loop
eMarketer's projected crossover marks the endpoint of a decade in which behavioural data outsold search intent.
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Local Consequences
The Ohio Supreme Court just ordered Trenton to put a citizen data center ban on a specia…
The unanimous ruling rejected the council's interpretation that 'electors' meant all 8,197 registered voters rather than the 1,277 who actually cast…
World
73% of marketing teams used generative AI in Gartner’s 2024 survey — and 45% of CMOs had…
Gartner's survey of 418 marketing leaders, reported by Search Engine Journal, pairs mass AI adoption with a spike in mid-flight terminations.
World
Google’s spam update isn’t broadly targeting AI content — reports point to m…
Domains with prior genuine engagement are surviving the August rollout; template-shaped publishers producing 400 articles a week are not.
World
Snap’s $2,195 Specs bet the billboard will become a stackable AR surface
Evan Spiegel unveiled wireless glasses with a 51-degree field of view at Augmented World Expo.
Inside You
There’s a difference between loving animals and preferring them to people — one is…
Preferring animals to people is often misread as love for animals. More often it is what remains after decades of emotional work that never came back.
World
Google Analytics’ bot filter only catches the bots polite enough to identify thems…
The 2014-era checkbox screens declared crawlers on the IAB list while residential-proxy traffic sails through as users.
World
Falling renewals, more emails: the doom loop inside subscription engagement dashboards
A Bangalore product marketer describes three teams sending the same person four emails a week from different personas.
World
The postal meter on the counter is a loss leader — the software subscription behind it i…
Servitization has turned office hardware into a wedge for cloud contracts, data pipelines, and vendor lock-in that procurement teams rarely see.
World
ABM’s 2026 reckoning: AI tools compound returns only when the account list is righ…
Vendors sell personalisation at scale, but three common failure modes still break the math.
Local Consequences
Dougherty County, Georgia just extended its data center moratorium another 180 days on a…
The extension follows a July zoning review and unresolved disagreement over whether small-scale facilities fall inside the freeze.
World
Analytics Insight credits Deep Brew with a 15% engagement lift — the decade of identity…
The algorithm can be bought; ten years of joined loyalty, location and purchase records cannot.
World
Smart home tech is widespread in the US, but cost, privacy and reliability concerns pers…
OnePoll finds 80%-plus penetration but sharp divides on cost, glitches and anxiety, heaviest at the ends of the age distribution.
World
Smart appliances send up to 19MB of data a week — regulators are watching the wrong scre…
Consumer Reports found a Samsung appliance streaming that data volume home while lawmakers focus on children's phones.
World
In 2021, one Chinese live streamer sold $1.9 billion in goods in a single day
Trust, entertainment and checkout collapsed into one feed at a scale no ad campaign has matched.
World
Same campaign, different math: impressions showed 2:1 while one value model showed 8:1
Engagement, one-year UGC rights, gifting-survey intent signals and SKU-level sell-through change the composite return without changing the spend.