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FTC Sues Amazon Over Alleged $20 Billion Advertising Surcharge Scheme via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
FTC and 22 states sued Amazon over alleged changes to its ad auctions that the agency says overcharged advertisers by more than $20 billion. The post FTC Sues Amazon Over Alleged $20 Billion Advertising Surcharge Scheme appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Good Good CEO says he’s fired the people responsible for driver ad, and he’s mad at Callaway, too
Good Good CEO Matt Kendrick says the company has “removed people responsible” for its disastrous Callaway driver ad. He also told Front Office Sports that he didn’t see the ad before it went out on socials. In case you’ve somehow missed all of this, a quick tl;dr: Good Good, one of YouTube’s most well-known golf […] Visit Tubefilter for more great stories.
Top 50 Most Viewed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/30/2026
The channel with more YouTube views than any other also got the most YouTube views during the final week of August. T-Series regained its rightful place at the head of the Global Top 50 by picking up 778.8 million weekly views. That sum brought T-Series up to 353.2 billion lifetime views on YouTube. As per usual, T-Series' lineup consists of music videos, movie trailers, and other forms of entertainment catered to South Asian audiences. Over the years, however, the company founded by Gulshan Kumar in 1983 has added new content types to keep up with the shifting appetites of digital viewers. Visit Tubefilter for more great stories.
Top 50 Most Subscribed YouTube Channels Worldwide • Week Of 08/30/2026
For the third week in a row, Lucan Pevidor finished first in the Global Sub Top 50. The Brazilian creator has been on a roll in August, and he rounded out the month by adding two million weekly subscribers. Pevidor's channel thumbnail image shows him pimping his blinged-out play button, and if he keeps up this pace, he'll have many more awards to show off in the near future. Another Brazilian creator, however, is on our radar this week. Extreme sports content has become a reliable niche for creators all over the world, and as that scene continues to expand, YouTube Shorts is still a powerful outlet for thrill-seeking stars. Visit Tubefilter for more great stories.
Rank Math SEO Plugin Pauses Controversial Feature. Says It Will Return via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Rank Math paused its controversial feature, acknowledge a serious consent failure, and explains why it's coming back. The post Rank Math SEO Plugin Pauses Controversial Feature. Says It Will Return appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Stellantis’ Olivier Francois Steps Down, But Hasn’t Driven Off Into the Sunset Yet
The auto company's long-serving CMO will continue on in an advisory role
WPP’s Alleged Global Rebate Scheme, Told Through Three Court Cases
The cases all separately tie the advertising giant to an alleged global kickback scheme
FTC Claims Amazon Pocketed Over $20 Billion By ‘Manipulating’ Its Ad Auctions
What marketers need to know from the agency's lawsuit.
Sheri Herman, Pioneering Cable and Digital Executive With E! Entertainment, AEN, Dies at 71
Sheri Herman, a cable and digital media pioneer who helped launch E! Entertainment TV, died of heart failure Aug. 6 in Florida. She was 71. Born in Philadelphia, Herman graduated Temple University and started out at the Madison Avenue ad agency AC&R. After working as a commercials producer, she joined The Entertainment Channel and then […]
ChatGPT Is Now A “Very Large Online Search Engine” In The EU via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
ChatGPT is now a very large online search engine under the EU Digital Services Act after OpenAI reported about 159.1 million average monthly search recipients. The post ChatGPT Is Now A “Very Large Online Search Engine” In The EU appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Search Console AI Reports Rolled Out Worldwide via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google says Search Console's generative AI performance reports, which track AI Overviews and AI Mode impressions, have now rolled out to all sites worldwide. The post Google Search Console AI Reports Rolled Out Worldwide appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Amazon sued by FTC over claims it misled advertisers on pricing
Amazon faces a federal lawsuit from the FTC and 22 state attorneys general claiming it gave advertisers inadequate disclosures on pricing for three sponsored ad products.
Factor Serves Up a GLP-1 Meal Plan in New Serena Williams Ad Spot
The meal kit brand’s “Let’s Eat Real” campaign depicts the tennis star preparing for the US Open.
Callaway and Good Good’s Ad Was So Bad, Even AI Audiences Sounded the Alarm
The frustrating thing about the Good Good ad is that the warning signs weren't particularly difficult to find.
AI Has Not Replaced SEO for Business Growth, Expert Says
Despite claims that artificial intelligence (AI) is making search engine optimization (SEO) obsolete, it remains essential, digital marketing expert finds. Husam Jandal, an internationally acclaimed business and digital marketing consultant, says search engine optimization (SEO) for business growth remains an essential practice despite recent shifts in user behavior tied to the use of artificial intelligence […]
Data Dynamics Launches Enterprise 2.0.5 at LEAP 2026, Bringing Governed AI to the Data Layer
With 60% of AI projects stalled due to data curation and AI readiness, Enterprise 2.0.5 puts governance where it’s actually enforceable, at the data itself. Data Dynamics, a global leader in data management, announced Enterprise 2.0.5’s general availability at LEAP 2026. The release closes a gap entities hit while scaling AI: models pointed at unmapped […]
Aurora Mobile’s Modellix Releases Beta Plugin for DeepSeek Harness, Adding Free LLM Models to the Fast-Growing Open-Source Coding Agent
Aurora Mobile Limited (NASDAQ: JG) (“Aurora Mobile” or the “Company”), a leading provider of customer engagement and marketing technology services, announced that Modellix.ai, its One Unified Platform for All AI Media Generation, has released dsh-modellix in beta — a plugin for DeepSeek Harness, the open-source AI coding agent that has drawn nearly 200,000 GitHub stars […]
Archive Launches Archie, the Agent That Vets Creators, Not Just Finds Them
Describe a campaign, and Archie returns a shortlist of creators already screened for competitor conflicts, dead accounts, and fake audiences, with the reasoning attached. That replaces the hours teams spend reviewing profiles one at a time Archive, the AI-native creator marketing platform used by more than 1,000 brands, launched Archie, an AI agent that handles […]
Digital Island and RingCentral Partner to Bring Agentic Voice AI Solutions to New Zealand businesses
Partnership leverages RingCentral’s Agentic Voice AI communications platform together with Digital Island’s signature local collaboration expertise and service framework Digital Island, one of New Zealand’s premier cloud communications and business IT service providers, and RingCentral, Inc., a global leader in AI-powered customer engagement, announced a strategic partnership to bring Agentic Voice AI solutions to New […]
LeanData Customer Research Reveals the AI Reckoning Unfolding in GTM Teams
70% of Survey Respondents Say Bad Data Is Undermining Their AI GTM Execution Problem: There’s a serious gap between the widespread adoption of AI, including AI agents, and improvement in GTM results, according to a survey of 157 GTM practitioners. Cause: Respondents named the top reasons that GTM AI initiatives underperform or stall: bad data, […]
Optimizely Introduces Virtual Teammates, Giving Marketers Role-Specific AI Coworkers
New digital coworkers retain context, proactively take on recurring work, and operate across marketing tools within defined identity and permissions Optimizely, the AI platform for marketing, announced Virtual Teammates, a new class of digital coworkers built to work alongside marketers across their day-to-day workflows. Unveiled at Opticon, Virtual Teammates can take on defined responsibilities, retain knowledge about […]
Deloitte Acquires the Business of Wavicle, Accelerating Data and AI Engineering Capabilities
Acquisition deepens Deloitte’s Databricks capabilities, bolstering Deloitte’s Artificial Intelligence and Data practice Deloitte announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Wavicle Data Solutions, a top-tier data and AI engineering organization with a market-leading Databricks practice. This acquisition accelerates Deloitte’s already robust capability to help clients build AI-ready data foundations that power […]
CrowdStrike Brings CLEAR’s Verified Human Identity into the Falcon Platform
Integration helps security teams distinguish trusted users from potential threats and act with greater confidence CrowdStrike and CLEAR announced a strategic partnership that integrates CLEAR1, CLEAR’s secure identity platform, with the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. Together, CrowdStrike and CLEAR connect threat detection with high-assurance, person-based verification, designed to enable organizations to verify the human behind unusual activity […]
authID Selected to Strengthen Workforce Security for Multi-National Manufacturing Automation Company
Global industrial automation provider deploys authID’s biometric identity verification to protect tens of thousands of employees and contractors across Microsoft Entra ID and ServiceNow platforms authID, a leading provider of biometric authentication solutions, announced it has been selected by a global leader in industrial automation. authID will secure the customer’s Microsoft Entra ID and ServiceNow […]