This week, the paid media world focused less on new tools and more on what’s changing beneath the surface. Google expanded Performance Max into a new channel and offered long-awaited reporting visibility. Microsoft took a firm stance on brand safety by requiring Clarity across its publisher network. And one viral
At the end of every week, we look at the key stories, offering our view on what they mean for you and the industry. From Diageo’s appointment of Dave Lewis to Waitrose’s rom-com starring Keira Knightley, it’s been a busy week. Here is my take. In good spirits Investors in
It’s a chewy subject, but this issue delivers on the task of answering these age-old questions in photographs that pack a lot of information into simple, beautiful compositions. In A Glint of Possibility by Tyler Mitchell, a man dangles from a tire swing just close enough to the water to
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With its latest slew of updates, Beehiiv is pushing beyond a newsletter hosting platform and positioning itself as a place where creators can build full websites, sell digital products, integrate podcasts and YouTube feeds and research audience analytics. Creators have largely welcomed the new set of business tools, revealed on
Need a more portable workstation? Apple‘s popular Mac mini desktop is currently $100 off over at Best Buy, down to just $499 for the M4 model. This is a great price and one of the best offers we’ve seen on this mini PC since it launched almost exactly a year
OpenAI is experiencing a widespread outage affecting two systems, APIs and ChatGPT. The outage has been ongoing for at least a half an hour as of publication date. ChatGPT API Jobs Stuck Outage The first issue is that batch API jobs get stuck in the finalization state. There are twelve
Walmart’s new CEO is a longtime veteran of the retailer. John Furner, who oversaw the giant’s U.S. business since 2019, will become President and CEO of Walmart starting Feb. 1, becoming the company’s fifth CEO since the days of founder Sam Walton. Furner succeeds Doug McMillon, who is retiring and
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This week’s news in SEO brings changes and questions about control. Google’s shopping AI moved from showing where to buy to completing purchases directly. Google added structured data for merchant shipping policies. OpenAI released GPT-5.1 with personality controls. And the EU opened an investigation into Google’s site reputation abuse enforcement.
