The news from California and New Mexico confirms that the way forward is regulation. The ad industry has always opposed more curbs, but now there is no argument against them, writes Nick Manning.

The streaming giant unveilved new ad formats and tools in Ads Manager as it walks a tightrope between promoting and denigrating AI’s impact on audio consumption.

YouTube 5K (referred to by WPP’s media buying arm as YT5K) aims to make channel curation and creative versioning for YouTube more efficient.

Ozone Labs will operate as a “sandbox” alongside Ozone’s core business, serving as an area for its partners to experiment, build product prototypes, and try new business models.

Worldwide, momentum is growing against the traditional defence of tech billionaires that they provide neutral platforms, and that it is the responsibility of parents to police their children’s online habits.