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NYSE suspended trading in Getty Images on 29 September and began delisting after shares closed at 12 cents. Note interest falls due around 1 October.

Meta launched Forum, a separate app for Facebook Groups, in the US on 29 September. It brings an AI Ask tab and Top Voice labels.

Rakuten France stopped taking orders at midnight on 30 September. Customer numbers fell 33% and traffic 42% in ten years, and no buyer was found.

Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on 30 September. Security teams get it first, then paid API customers and AI Ultra subscribers, at $2 per million input tokens.

AppLovin asked a San Francisco court on 29 September to stop Unity's Ad Quality tool collecting data on ads AppLovin wins. Unity calls it retaliation.

The Very Group named Beckie Crane-Stanion, Frasers Group CMO from 2020 to 2024, marketing director. Andrew Ford joins from AO as group head of data.

The ASA upheld four complaints against a Huel video with Julian Hearn and Spencer Matthews. It said the ad encouraged replacing all food with Huel.

Google said on 29 September that three Google Analytics cross-channel reports now count app conversions. App credit only goes to Google paid channels.

RTL AdAlliance opened a sales office in Spain on 29 September 2026, led by Artur Kobryn and backed by Atresmedia Publicidad.

Oliver Ramm becomes executive creative director of Mutabor Advertising on 1 October 2026, replacing co-founder Kathi Walter.

Omnicom Media Group takes over media planning and buying for L'Oréal in Germany, Austria and Switzerland from January 2027. The budget is put at about 350 million euros.

Market America said on 28 September 2026 that it has sold the Shop.com domain to Shopify. The company had held the address since 2011.