Firmly Connect enables merchants to quickly become “agentic commerce-ready” within hours to sell across AI shopping agents, platforms, and publishers, which are widely projected to become a $3–5 trillion agentic commerce economy within the next five years Firmly Connect is now embedded as enterprise infrastructure as Aurus becomes the first omni-commerce gateway with native agentic commerce […]

The deal combines a decentralised search engine, a privacy browser, and a distributed VPN into one integrated product for everyday users — and Timpi Search is now open to the public Two privacy-focused technology companies have merged their products to take on Big Tech’s grip on search and browsing — without the tracking, ad profiling, or centralised […]

New AI agent helps marketing teams analyze performance, generate strategic recommendations, and act on unified measurement insights Lifesight, a leader in unified marketing measurement, announced the launch of Mia, a new marketing intelligence agent designed to help ecommerce and retail marketing teams analyze performance data, generate strategic recommendations, and act faster on insights across channels. […]

Hundreds of millions of developers, analysts, and policy professionals can now access structured legislative and regulatory intelligence from within ChatGPT-powered workflows and custom GPTs FiscalNote Holdings, Inc. , a global leader in AI-driven policy and regulatory intelligence, announced that the PolicyNote MCP has been approved and listed in the OpenAI App Store. The listing enables […]

Sabio Holdings announced that its owned-and-operated network, Creator TV® has entered a partnership with Convergence, a Los Angeles-based creator management, media development, and venture studio based in LA, to bring new and innovative creator-led show concepts to television. “We’re excited to partner with Convergence on bringing dynamic creator-led storytelling to the forefront of entertainment,” said Charlie Ibarra, […]

On March 17, 2026, Google retired some of its Google Ads policies on Ad format requirements. These are specific to “old ad formats that are no longer in use are also being retired," Ginny Marvin of Google.

Google added a new section to the “Understand available performance metrics" within the Google Business Profiles help documentation. The new section added a section on offer data and it shows the number of times customers viewed and clicked on offers on your Business Profile.

Google is testing showing a call to action in the search results that says, “Skip digging, start guided research" which drives users to a Web Guide-like results page.

There is new data out from Newzdash that shows just how often AI Overviews appear within Google across new sections. And while AI Overviews shows 60%+ of the time for health queries, when it comes to breaking news and major headlines, it shows less than 6% of the time.

Marketers focus on first-party data promised control. But ownership didn’t solve identity accuracy, activity visibility or customer truth.