
Google Data Studio comes out of beta
Google’s two-year-old free reporting and data visualization platform, Google Data Studio, is now generally available. Integrations and...

YouTube gives more creators option to monetize channels
YouTube is dropping the number of required subscribers for access to Channel Memberships to 50,000, a reversal from the 100,000...

Google debuts Shoppable Image ads, video in Shopping Showcase ads
Google’s Shoppable Image ads can show on third-party sites (left) and in Google Image search (right). This week, Google announced two new...

Top tech firms call for pro-business updates to federal data privacy laws
called for updates to federal data privacy legislation on Tuesday. Updates at the federal level could potentially overide the newly...

Expert management of Bing Shopping Ads just got easier
History has a knack for repeating itself. More than 100 years ago, Ford dominated with mass-produced automobiles until GM, and others...

YouTube to end Director onsite services on October 31
YouTube is retiring its Director onsite services as of October 31 and has stopped accepting any new video ad production projects. First...

As Google opts out of Senate Intelligence hearings, group sets up Google account posing as Russian t
While Google was conspicuously absent from a Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday, a research group announced it had once...

Google, IAB Europe still negotiating GDPR Consent Framework implementation
In May, the company said that it would likely start using the framework by August. The IAB Europe only released the framework for public...

New report: Facebook and Google among tech firms lobbying Congress for ‘kinder’ federal
reported that the US government was finally starting to move toward adoption of a federal data privacy law, a move that has been long in...

YouTube gives users more ways to track the amount of time they spend on the app
YouTube is rolling out more features designed to help users “take charge” of their digital well-being. Starting today, the ‘Watch...

Chrome browser to update to material design ‘across all operating systems’
Based on Google Chrome enterprise release notes, The Verge reported that Google’s browser will get a “new design across all operating...

Google faces potential class action, FTC penalties for ‘surreptitious’ location tracking
A California resident named Napoleon Patacsil has filed a lawsuit against Google in federal court (Patacsil v. Google, Inc.) seeking...

Google’s political ad transparency report & library offers more accountability around ele
Google is building more transparency into the political ads and advertisers running campaigns on its ad networks. After updating its...

Report says Google to launch own smart display in time for holidays
Out of more than 50 million Alexa devices sold, fewer than 500,000 have been the Echo Show, according to Canalys. That’s partly because...

Sizmek unveils unified ad serving platform it says can replace Google’s walled garden
scooped up Rocket Fuel’s demand-side programmatic ad platform (DSP) last summer, Executive Chairman Mark Grether said the merger would...

Google clarifies it does capture location data after Location History is turned off
Earlier this week, the AP reported that Google continues to collect user location data even when user Location History is turned off. In...

Who’s really winning the smart speaker market, Amazon or Google?
Earlier this week, Strategy Analytics released its Q2 global smart speaker shipments report. The data showed Amazon still as the global...

Report: Google continues to gain global smart speaker share
Consistent with earlier data, Strategy Analytics reported that Google is gaining global share in the smart speaker market. It’s also...

AP: Google collects location data when ‘Location History’ is turned off
Yesterday, the AP reported that Google collects user location data regardless of user Location History settings: Google wants to know...
























