Podcasts Get Measurement Guidelines From IAB Tech Lab by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, July 21, 2026 IAB Tech Lab, the standards arm of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, has announced new rules to ensure that totals for podcast listeners and advertising numbers from downloads and clicks are calculated accurately. Podcasts rely heavily on the ability … Continue reading Podcasts Get Measurement Guidelines From IAB Tech Lab
What AI Engines Want From A Brand by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, July 17, 2026 Artificial intelligence (AI) engines want different things from one brand compared with another. Google AI Overviews uses social platforms for local and availability signals. Between 11% and 14% of its transactional citations are near-me and store-hours prompts, according to … Continue reading What AI Engines Want From A Brand
A bug in AWS has caused some customers’ bills to spike from a few cents to billions of dollars “The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges,” Amazon said. By Will Shanklin July 17, 2026 u/killpowa / Reddit If you’ve ever gotten an unexpectedly high bill, you know the panic that can … Continue reading A bug in AWS has caused some customers’ bills to spike from a few cents to billions of dollars
July 16, 2026 What is a micro-cap IPO—and why are they disappearing from the stock market? BY Jennifer Mattson We are at an inflection point, a moment when AI-driven mega IPOs are flooding the market—from SpaceX to the frenzy surrounding OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s upcoming initial public offerings. Meanwhile, smaller micro-cap IPOs are vanishing. Micro-cap IPOs are … Continue reading What is a micro cap IPO, and why are they disappearing from the stock market?
July 11, 2026 How Maison de Sabré built a cult business of bag charms from scraps BY Elizabeth Segran Maison de Sabré has spent nearly a decade building a reputation for colorful, beautifully crafted leather handbags. But lately, the thing that makes people fall for the brand isn’t a bag at all—it’s the charms. Its newest … Continue reading How Maison de Sabré built a cult business of bag charms from scraps
July 11, 2026 This airport wants to separate wealthy travelers from everyone else BY Taylor Hatmaker The epicenter of the tech boom will soon have a new luxe travel option for wealthy travelers keen to not mix with the masses. San Francisco International Airport plans to build a new terminal designated for the area’s many high-net-worth … Continue reading This airport wants to separate wealthy travelers from everyone else
Stagwell Discovers Where Agent Performance Comes From by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer, July 7, 2026 Stagwell’s global media business Stagwell Media Platform became the first to integrate Microsoft Copilot, which is powered by the open standard protocol Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP has been embedded into the paid-search workflow of Assembly Global, the network’s … Continue reading Stagwell Discovers Where Real AI Agents’ Performance Comes From
Alibaba gets a reprieve from US Chinese military ban The decision comes after Alibaba sued the government for violating its constitutional rights. By Steve Dent July 6, 2026 Robert Way/Shutterstock A judge has ruled that the Pentagon must not treat Chinese online retailer Alibaba as a Chinese military company with respect to new lobbying restrictions, … Continue reading Alibaba gets a reprieve from US Chinese military ban
June 18, 2026 Sleep Number Corporation stock will be delisted from Nasdaq after Chapter 11 bankruptcy; shares plummet BY Sarah Fielding Shares of Sleep Number Corporation will no longer be publicly traded after next week. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC), the embattled mattress and bedding company confirmed that its stock (Nasdaq: … Continue reading Sleep Number Corporation stock will be delisted from Nasdaq after Chapter 11 bankruptcy; shares plummet
AI agents that execute on the next best action are all the rage in CDP circles these days. By Mike Pastore Published on June 17, 2026 Customer data platform BlueConic announced today it was acquiring Blueshift, an AI-powered cross-channel marketing platform. The next wave of CDPs is looking more agentic than previous generations, … Continue reading BlueConic acquires Blueshift as CDPs move from data to action
