The Marketer's Playbook

🗞 Raids, Fines, and $400B in Revenue

Platforms face regulators while their revenues and AI budgets keep climbing.

🗞 Users Are Leaving. Jobs Are Gone. The Trial Has Begun.

🗞 TikTok Tracks You. YouTube Clones You. X Admits It’s Broken.

From GPS data to AI likeness tools, this week changed how platforms treat users.

🗞 Ads, Lawsuits, and the AI Power Shift

Inside OpenAI’s ad plans, publisher lawsuits, and the fight over who controls AI revenue.

🗞 230M Health Questions and the AI Regulation Moment

From wellness chats to app store bans, this week shows how fast AI is moving into regulated territory.

🗞 $15M to Fix Addiction, AI Safety Failures, and the End of the Instagram Aesthetic

From Grok’s safety lapses to Instagram’s shift away from perfection, here’s what changed this week.

🗞 $1T in Ad Spend, Meta's Leaked Documents and Teen Targeting

A breakdown of the data, the documents, and the decisions shaping 2026.

🗞 $14B, Paid Links, and the End of Free Reach

Platforms are rewriting the rules for 2026

🗞The Algorithm War Escalates

This is the week platforms, media, and AI openly fought for control.

🗞 Hollywood Up for Sale, Social Feeds Up for Reinvention

Netflix buys big, Reddit kills r/popular, and OpenAI hits the gas.

🗞 The Ad War No One Asked For and a Black-Friday Surge

Are ads coming to ChatGPT? Meta faces heat, and Meta–Google talks reshape the AI chip race

🗞 $37B Creator Boom Meets a Major Legal Break

Spending surges, AI gets throttled, and Meta walks free