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Google is discovering that the legal protections built for search engines may not extend to AI-generated answers, as European courts and regulators move to hold platforms accountable for the information their systems create and present. A German court has ruled Google can be held directly liable for false or defamatory claims generated by its AI Overview feature.

Instagram is ramping up its efforts to attract more viewers on television in a way that may look very, well, old-school.

Truthset's Data Rated Audiences are now embedded in Magnite's platform, giving buyers deterministic identifiers to activate premium inventory with validated data across CTV and open web.

OpenX has announced the launch of OpenX IQ, a suite of proprietary AI and machine learning capabilities to give buyers quality, control, and performance across every stage of the media workflow.

The annual study finds social media and video platforms have, for the first time, surpassed news organizations’ websites and apps as the most widely used source of online news worldwide. A majority (54%) of respondents say they access news through social or video platforms, compared to 51% who use news websites and apps. Younger audiences are driving much of that change.

Cheap reach has become marketing's biggest blind spot, with new research suggesting brands are sacrificing growth by optimising for low-cost impressions that consumers see but rarely remember.

Campaigns that include audio deliver significantly stronger business outcomes than those without it, according to a global effectiveness study. Unveiled at Cannes Lions by marketing consultant Mark Ritson (pictured), the research further found that audio’s profit contribution scales with media spend at an average of +75% across all campaigns.

New research found that large majorities of consumers are less likely to trust ads made by AI and less likely to buy from brands that use AI-generated ads.

PP Enterprise Solutions has signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), deepening its role as a commerce and customer experience partner helping enterprise brands move generative and agentic AI initiatives from experimentation to large-scale deployment