When a measurement company pays $2.15 billion in cash for a verification provider whose revenue grew 3% last quarter, it is not buying growth. It is buying a strategic position. Nielsen is acquiring DoubleVerify at $13.60 per share, a 30% premium to the 60-trading day average, with a close expected
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Welcome to the Pulse: updates impact who can crawl your site, what an AI index records about your pages, and how Google will compare your campaigns with similar businesses. Here’s what you need to know for your work. Cloudflare’s AI Blocking Will Cover Googlebot In September Starting September 15, 2026,
The ad tech public era is over. Not literally, of course. A handful of scaled, still-growing platforms remain public. There just aren’t many of them, and the slower-growth, utility-margin names are dropping out one by one. Nielsen agreed to buy DoubleVerify for $2.15 billion in cash last week (August 6),
It could be argued that imperfection is more important than ever – a notion that Hudson wholeheartedly agrees with. Despite being a perfectionist himself, he explains, “the whole reason I’m full-time at Clay is because I bring imperfection to the brand,” or, at least, an organic, natural imperfection. “As the
ChatGPT’s page-fetching bot is disallowed by more sites than any other AI bot of its kind. It also reached disallowed pages on more sites than any other bot. OpenAI says robots.txt rules may not apply to it because a person asked for the page. TollBit’s latest State of the Bots
The ex-WPP executive suing his former employer for retaliation in a high-profile case alleging he was fired after trying to expose an illegal media rebate scheme now alleges that WPP client Sony came to the same conclusions after conducting an independent investigation. In 2023, Chinese authorities detained (and later convicted)
Game developers have big expectations for Unreal Engine 6, the next major evolution of Epic Games’ real-time engine, but so do filmmakers and VFX artists. Now an early glimpse at a new tool shows one of the ways that it could change the game. The main Unreal Engine 6 news
Google has added Gemini 3.7 Flash as a selectable model in AI Mode, one day after the model’s initial release for coding and agent tasks. Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, announced the rollout on X, writing that the model is “better at following instructions + understanding your
Many of the assumptions that have guided B2B marketing planning for the past decade are becoming less reliable. Buyers were increasingly visible, engagement signals helped indicate interest, channels were manageable, and buying journeys could be observed, influenced, and measured. Today, buyers are harder to observe, AI is reshaping discovery and
