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Cory Booker and John Kennedy launched the Senate Creators Caucus on 16 September 2026, with six creators on the opening panel.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google Ireland €403 million on 21 September 2026, over three location settings.

The beep you hear when your ticket is scanned at a concert has been redesigned. Sonic Gateway, created by the agency Soundize for the Polish ticketing platform eBilet, won the audio branding category at the International Sound Awards 2026 in Hamburg.

Instacart launched the brand campaign Turn any idea into an order on 18 September, using food scenes from Shrek and Scooby-Doo to introduce its Clementine assistant.

Zalando's Erfurt logistics centre closes at the end of September after fourteen years, with more than 2,000 dismissals and 109 claims at the labour court.

New Balance sued Decathlon in the District of Massachusetts over the logo on Kiprun running shoes, asking for an injunction, a recall and damages.

The verified u/hbomax account on Reddit was taken over and used to run 108 fake ad variants for about two days before the platform locked it.

IAB published a survey of 2,200 AI shoppers on 9 September: 56% prefer shopping answers that draw on creator reviews, but only 34% of boomers do.

Google rewrote its explicit content guidance on 17 September and now asks shops to label adult products in the Merchant Center feed or in page markup.

Meta's Oversight Board overturned two decisions on 17 September and told the company to remove AI-made videos of a Scottish councillor and a Muslim campaigner.

IAB Europe published a second draft of its in-store retail media standards on 17 September. The industry can comment until 23 October.

Documents unsealed on 17 September in the New York Times copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft quote staff at both firms on the risk to news publishers.