https://marketingnewsroom.com/media/audio/bmg-concord-merger-completed-bertelsmann/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T19:55:00+00:00BMG and Concord finish their merger under the BMG namehttps://marketingnewsroom.com/brands/creative/google-mrbeast-deal-gemini-fitbit/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T19:18:22+00:00Google signs MrBeast to promote Gemini and Fitbit in a multi-year dealhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/media/tv-streaming/rtl-ai-made-court-show-das-strafgericht/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T18:22:00+00:00RTL airs an AI-made court show for five days from 7 Septemberhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/data-measurement/analytics/google-analytics-data-gap-1-september/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T17:50:00+00:00Google Analytics data gap: no traffic recorded for 1 Septemberhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/ai/regulation/us-government-backs-openai-new-york-times/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T17:18:49+00:00US government backs OpenAI against The New York Timeshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/x-money-only-payout-us-creators/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T16:05:00+00:00X makes X Money the only way US creators can get paidhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/seo-ai-search/ai-search/google-gemini-3-8-flash-ai-mode/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T15:37:14+00:00Google adds Gemini 3.8 Flash to AI Mode, its third Flash model in six weekshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/ecommerce/retail-media/ace-hardware-redvest-weather-triggers-doordash/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T14:07:00+00:00Ace Hardware retail media adds weather triggers and a DoorDash tie-inhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/ecommerce/youtube-shopping-affiliate-germany-mediamarkt-kaufland/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T13:44:00+00:00YouTube brings shopping affiliate to Germany with MediaMarkt, Saturn and Kauflandhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/brands/branding/vw-plans-end-seat-brand-2029/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T13:37:51+00:00Volkswagen plans to end Seat brand by 2029https://marketingnewsroom.com/media/tv-streaming/zdf-adds-themed-channels-to-streaming-app/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T12:25:00+00:00ZDF adds more than 15 themed channels to its streaming apphttps://marketingnewsroom.com/media/print/saturday-evening-post-ends-print-after-205-years/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T11:55:00+00:00The Saturday Evening Post ends print after 205 yearshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/agencies/news/wpp-cuts-1000-more-jobs-in-2026/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T11:24:58+00:00WPP job cuts: up to 1,000 more roles go by the end of 2026https://marketingnewsroom.com/brands/branding/tauron-volleyball-sponsorship-replaces-plusliga/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T09:50:00+00:00Tauron volleyball sponsorship ends the PlusLiga name after 19 seasonshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/media/print/harpers-bazaar-poland-returns-336-page-issue/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T09:17:37+00:00Harper’s Bazaar Poland returns with a 336-page first issuehttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/platforms/tiktok-nfl-partnership-renewal-pulse-premiere/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T08:45:00+00:00TikTok renews its NFL deal and opens club content to advertisershttps://marketingnewsroom.com/data-measurement/reports/krrit-report-children-in-advertising-2026/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T08:20:00+00:00Polish regulator checked 2,000 ads with children and found 50 problem spotshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/data-measurement/measurement/adsense-counts-impressions-only-after-render/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T07:23:07+00:00Google AdSense will stop counting ads that never appear on the screenhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/agencies/pitches/pepsico-global-media-goes-to-publicis/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T06:30:00+00:00PepsiCo global media goes to Publicis after 25 years with Omnicomhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/pr-comms/public-affairs/sports-direct-ad-ban-over-rrp-claims/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T06:26:43+00:00Sports Direct ad ban over RRP claims. The retailer calls the ASA out of touchhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/performance/programmatic/google-ad-tech-case-ends-without-breakup/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-03T06:15:05+00:00Google ad tech case ends without a breakup. Judge orders rule changeshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/ai/ethics/brands-sell-humanity-as-ai-distrust-grows-and-even-ai-companies-are-joining-in/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T12:39:59+00:00Brands advertise being human as people grow uneasy about AIhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/ai/deployments/tvn-warner-bros-discovery-launches-zoku-an-ai-driven-shop-the-show-service-on-player/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T12:29:32+00:00TVN Warner Bros. 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market grows 14% to A$19.8 billion as video nears a thirdhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/data-measurement/consumer/one-in-four-sports-fans-cant-find-the-game-gracenotes-six-country-study-finds/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T11:47:43+00:00One in four sports fans cannot find the game, Gracenote study in six countries findshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/data-measurement/measurement/snap-takes-unified-attribution-global-letting-app-advertisers-optimize-on-mmp-data/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T11:37:16+00:00Snap opens Unified Attribution worldwide, letting app advertisers use outside datahttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/marketers-admit-creator-fees-are-guesswork-and-the-industry-cant-agree-on-a-fix/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T11:26:49+00:00Marketers say creator fees are guesswork, and the industry cannot agree on a fixhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/instagram-will-throttle-ai-generated-profiles-that-dont-label-themselves/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T11:16:21+00:00Instagram will show fewer people AI profiles that do not label themselveshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/later-folds-mavely-into-its-brand-as-creator-payouts-pass-300-million/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T11:05:54+00:00Later drops the Mavely name as payments to creators pass 300 million dollarshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/youtuber-markiplier-becomes-gopros-largest-shareholder-and-the-stock-doubles/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T10:55:27+00:00YouTuber Markiplier becomes GoPro’s biggest shareholder and the share price doubleshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/platforms/tiktok-reaches-189-million-eu-users-while-shrinking-its-human-moderation-team/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T10:44:59+00:00TikTok has 189 million EU users and fewer human moderatorshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/platforms/reddit-adds-15-second-engaged-video-views-goal-for-longer-form-ad-creative/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T10:34:32+00:00Reddit adds a 15-second video view goal for longer adshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/ecommerce/google-and-shopifys-agentic-commerce-protocol-adds-grocery-3d-secure-and-split-payments/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T10:24:05+00:00Google and Shopify update AI shopping rules for food and paymentshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/seo-ai-search/seo/polish-regulator-delays-ruling-on-google-publisher-fees-as-second-group-files-claim/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T10:13:38+00:00Polish regulator delays Google news fee ruling to Decemberhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/seo-ai-search/seo/google-sets-terms-for-rivals-to-license-its-european-search-data-from-september-17/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T10:03:10+00:00Google sets rules for rivals to buy its EU search datahttps://marketingnewsroom.com/pr-comms/public-affairs/polands-olympic-body-on-defensive-as-crypto-sponsor-deal-leaks-after-presidents-arrest/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T09:52:43+00:00Polish Olympic body defends leaked crypto sponsorship dealhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/media/tv-streaming/california-and-writers-guild-fight-paramounts-1-88-billion-bond-demand-in-wbd-case/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T09:42:16+00:00States and writers oppose Paramount’s $1.88 billion bond requesthttps://marketingnewsroom.com/ecommerce/retail-media/mall-giant-simon-launches-its-own-retail-media-network-built-on-foot-traffic-data/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T09:31:49+00:00Mall owner Simon starts selling ads using visitor datahttps://marketingnewsroom.com/agencies/m-and-a/dentsu-to-take-it-arm-dentsu-soken-private-with-itochu-in-1-4-billion-deal/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T09:21:21+00:00Dentsu and Itochu to take Dentsu Soken off the stock markethttps://marketingnewsroom.com/pr-comms/media-relations/pabst-turns-a-stolen-beer-truck-into-an-earned-media-win-with-18-day-amnesty-offer/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T09:10:54+00:00Pabst offers thieves 18 days to return its stolen beer truckhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/media/tv-streaming/apple-tv-raises-us-price-to-14-99-a-month-its-fourth-increase-since-launch/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T09:00:27+00:00Apple TV price in the US rises to $14.99 a monthhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/media/ooh/digital-out-of-home-grows-27-6-in-poland-as-overall-ad-market-slows-to-5-6/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T08:49:59+00:00Digital outdoor ads in Poland grow 27.6% as market slowshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/ai/regulation/polish-ad-industry-sorts-out-who-labels-ai-content-as-ai-act-transparency-rules-bite/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T08:39:32+00:00Polish ad industry works out who labels AI content under new EU ruleshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/agencies/news/wpp-asks-new-york-court-to-sanction-whistleblower-richard-foster-and-remove-his-lawyers/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T08:29:05+00:00WPP asks New York court to fine Richard Foster and remove his lawyershttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/platforms/poland-asks-eu-to-fine-meta-e250-million-over-scam-ads-as-company-pledges-new-checks/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T08:18:38+00:00Poland asks EU to fine Meta €250 million over scam ads as Meta adds checkshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/pr-comms/esg/sec-moves-to-scrap-rule-14a-8-the-tool-behind-decades-of-esg-shareholder-proposals/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T08:08:10+00:00SEC moves to scrap Rule 14a-8, the rule behind shareholder proposalshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/media/print/former-wirtualna-polska-chief-pawel-kapusta-takes-over-polands-rzeczpospolita-daily/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T07:57:43+00:00Paweł Kapusta takes over as editor-in-chief of Poland’s Rzeczpospolitahttps://marketingnewsroom.com/brands/creative/chipotle-hands-its-national-ad-campaign-to-100-creators-and-uses-no-brand-shot-footage/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T07:47:16+00:00Chipotle gives its national ad campaign to 100 creators and films nothing itselfhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/ai/deployments/warsaw-developers-build-towarowa22-brand-campaign-entirely-with-generative-ai/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T07:36:49+00:00Warsaw developers make Towarowa22 brand campaign entirely with AIhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/agencies/m-and-a/mission-group-folds-krow-into-bray-leino-as-creative-chief-darryl-george-exits/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T07:26:21+00:00Mission Group merges Krow into Bray Leino as creative chief Darryl George leaveshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/community/australia-weighs-giving-users-a-legal-right-to-switch-off-social-media-algorithms/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T07:15:54+00:00Australia may give users a legal right to switch off social media algorithmshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/seo-ai-search/ai-search/eu-puts-chatgpt-in-the-same-regulatory-bucket-as-google-search-and-bing/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T07:05:27+00:00EU treats ChatGPT like Google Search and Bing under its online ruleshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/pr-comms/internal/tim-cooks-last-memo-as-apple-ceo-leans-on-culture-and-steve-jobs-echoing-his-2011-debut/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T06:54:59+00:00Tim Cook’s last memo as Apple chief echoes the one he sent in 2011https://marketingnewsroom.com/media/publishers/california-passes-per-journalist-tax-credit-worth-up-to-40-million-a-year-for-newsrooms/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T06:44:32+00:00California passes tax credit of up to $40 million a year for newsroomshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/media/ctv-video/sony-turns-the-playstation-5-into-an-ad-supported-tv-channel-with-live-tv-on-ps5/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T06:34:05+00:00Sony adds free ad-supported TV channels to the PlayStation 5https://marketingnewsroom.com/ai/tools/optimizely-gives-marketers-ai-teammates-with-job-titles-and-its-own-marketing-models/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T06:23:38+00:00Optimizely launches AI helpers with job titles and its own marketing modelshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/agencies/pitches/booking-com-hands-global-creative-account-to-72andsunny-amsterdam/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T06:13:10+00:00Booking.com picks 72andSunny Amsterdam as its global creative agencyhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/data-measurement/measurement/nielsen-switches-on-one-minute-qualifier-and-three-other-local-tv-ratings-changes/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T06:02:43+00:00Nielsen makes four changes to how it measures local TV in the UShttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/dr-squatch-hides-1-million-with-ishowspeed-instead-of-buying-ads/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T05:52:16+00:00Dr. Squatch hides $1 million in a treasure hunt with IShowSpeedhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/social-creators/video/ftc-prepares-deception-case-against-youtube-over-its-content-moderation-practices/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T05:41:49+00:00US regulator prepares a case against YouTube over how it polices videoshttps://marketingnewsroom.com/data-measurement/analytics/google-finishes-global-rollout-of-ai-overviews-reporting-and-opt-out-in-search-console/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T05:31:21+00:00Google finishes worldwide rollout of AI Overviews reporting in Search Consolehttps://marketingnewsroom.com/pr-comms/crisis/callaway-drops-good-good-and-pledges-1m-after-ad-backlash-then-gets-blamed-by-partner/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T05:20:54+00:00Callaway ends Good Good deal and pledges $1 million after advert backlashhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/media/audio/howard-stern-takes-his-siriusxm-show-to-hbo-max-as-live-schedule-shrinks-to-one-day-a-week/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T05:10:27+00:00Howard Stern show comes to HBO Max as live radio drops to one day a weekhttps://marketingnewsroom.com/performance/programmatic/openai-says-chatgpt-ads-hit-1-billion-run-rate-as-self-serve-buying-opens-in-europe/Marketing Newsroomen2026-09-02T05:00:00+00:00OpenAI says ChatGPT ads now run at $1 billion a year as Europe gets self-serve buying