• ArsTechnica - DOJ confirms it wants to break up Google’s ad business

• Bloomberg - Google places ads inside chatbot conversations with AI startups

• AdWeek - Amazon’s Shop the Show makes a splash with expansion on Prime Video

• Variety - Roku to Acquire Streaming Service Frndly TV for $185 Million, Q1 Revenue Jumps 16%

• The Verge - Meta’s ChatGPT competitor shows how your friends use AI

• TubeFilter - TikTok beats Twitch to become the #2 most-watched streaming platform on the net–and says creators are making $10 mil a day

• Fast Company - WhatsApp’s new Netflix doc on F1 is a master class in turning advertising into entertainment

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• Digiday - The winners and losers of Google’s third-party cookie reversal

• TechRadar - I’ve seen ChatGPT’s new shopping features in action, and this could be the game changer we’ve been waiting for

• EnGadget - Perplexity is building a browser in part to collect customer data for targeted ads

• The Guardian - Producer of Peaky Blinders and Big Brother ‘drafts bid’ for ITV

• Marketing Dive - Media usage poised to dip in 2025: Here’s what the numbers say

• The Drum - Meet the adtech startup trying to reintroduce music fans and online publishers

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• The Tech Outlook - OpenAI and Shopify Could Soon be Announcing Their Partnership: In-Chat Shopping Strings Spotted on ChatGPT

• BBC - Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules

• AdWeek - Meta Is Racing for Retail Media Budgets

• Sports Business Journal - Sources: YouTube TV, Amazon, WBD bidding on mini-NFL rights package for 2025

• TechCrunch - A new kids’ show will come with a crypto wallet when it debuts this fall

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• Digiday - The cost of tariffs visualised: What 5 charts say about the future of ad spend

• The Media Leader - Expanded programmatic capabilities at Sky Media ‘will democratise live sport’

• Reuters - Meta to use public posts, AI interactions to train models in EU

• Retail Brew - Is retail media recession proof?

• BBC - MPs call for streaming levy to help UK TV industry

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• CX Dive - AI regulation is ‘inevitable.’ Are CX leaders ready?

• Decode TV - ITV extends targeted advertising capabilities

• Digiday - The Home Depot adds another acronym - 'ROMO' - in next phase of negotiating retail media network measurement

• The Hollywood Reporter - Vimeo Wants to Let Every Creator Launch Their Own Netflix

• TechCrunch - Amazon’s new AI agent will shop third-party sites for you

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• Retail Week - TikTok Shop lunches in Europe

• The Wrap - QVC cuts 100 staffers in pivot to live social shopping

• Sky - Sport draws nearly a billion hours of viewing, while nearly half of under 35s tune into podosphere for news

• Roblox - Roblox Launches Rewarded Video Ads, Partners With Google to Scale Immersive Advertising

• The Wrap - YouTube could be worth $550 billion as analyst crowns platform “New King of All Media”

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This week:

• Adobe Blog - Traffic to U.S. retail websites from Generative AI sources jumps 1,200 percent

• Forbes - S4 Key Takeaways From NVIDIA’s GTC 2025 That Will Reshape Your Business

• The Hollywood Reporter - Top YouTube Creators to Hold Their Own Upfront Event in Bid for TV Ad Dollars

• The Hollywood Reporter - In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies