The worst thing about the ad fraud scheme IAS published this week is not that it stole money. It is that the stolen traffic looked better than the real traffic.
Most brands find out how AI describes them by typing their own name into a chatbot and reading whatever comes back. That is a sample of one, on one day,
A channel with 40,000 subscribers, publishing faceless AI narration videos about pensions and savings accounts, is exactly the kind of channel that now has a monetization problem. Not a takedown
If you moved your daily research into ChatGPT Atlas over the past few months, here is the part that matters this week. On 9 August the browser stops working, and
You open Search Console, find a report you have not seen before, and there it is: a number labelled AI impressions. The first instinct is almost always the same. Divide
CVE-2026-8457 lets an attacker log in as any administrator on sites running WooCommerce Social Login 2.8.7 or lower. The twenty minute check, what to do if you find something, and the habit that prevents the next one.
New York has required disclosure of AI-generated synthetic performers in ads since 9 June 2026, and it applies to anyone advertising into the state. What counts, what does not, and the hour of work that covers you.
ChatGPT Ads now supports conversion-optimised bidding, geo exclusions and bulk campaign tools. Here is a four week test design, the number that will mislead you, and when the channel is not worth trying at all.
Two things happened in the last seven days that change what a marketing team should be doing, rather than just what it should be reading about. Both are about the
