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Kantar's Media Reactions 2026 finds 75% of marketers plan more AI-assistant investment, yet only a quarter of consumers trust AI product recommendations.

Berlin transit operator BVG and agency GUD stationed bodybuilders at a U-Bahn station to help exhausted Berlin Marathon finishers down the stairs.

Lavazza-owned coffee brand Carte Noire has appointed agency Heaven for social media and influence, building a creator 'crew' across Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

Sephora has launched Project Hearts Not Hate, its first-ever global corporate cause tackling appearance-based hate, backed by striking data on its scale.

Coinbase has received CFTC Derivatives Clearing Organization approval, letting it run a USDC-native clearinghouse and completing its full derivatives stack.

Aztec Labs has relaunched zk.money, a self-custodial wallet for private USDC, USDT and DAI transfers on its Ethereum layer 2, capped at $2,500 per transfer.

Cboe and S&P Dow Jones Indices extended their S&P 500 options licence 25 years to 2051 and said they may explore blockchain-based tokenised options.

Blockchain.com is preparing a US IPO to raise about $500 million at a valuation of $4-6 billion by the end of 2026, having filed confidentially with the SEC.

At its HOOD Summit, Robinhood unveiled AI trading agents, leveraged crypto perpetual futures and weekend stock trading in a bid to win active traders.

Best Buy Ads is launching CTV inventory, multi-touch attribution and AI tools, positioning itself as 'the next generation of commerce TV'.

Amazon has launched Amazon Ads Agent, merging its DSP and ads console so AI can plan, buy and optimise sponsored, display, video and audio in one place.

Gartner says 18% of marketing leaders have already cut roles to AI, and predicts most top teams will eliminate traditional entry-level jobs by 2030.

Marketing Week's 2026 State of Brand in B2B survey finds 80.8% of B2B firms invest in social media for brand building, well ahead of events and PR.

British watch brand Sekonda has launched 'any. second. now.', its first work with VCCP Blue and VCCP Media, targeting Gen Z with affordability over status.

WPP Media has appointed Laura Ryan, previously global CEO of IPG's Orion Worldwide, as its new chief media officer overseeing global investment and partnerships.

The ASA has banned Instagram and YouTube ads for Huel after ruling that an athlete anecdote implied its shakes could responsibly replace all conventional food.

In short: Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) runs your search ads across Bing, Yahoo and Microsoft's Copilot-powered surfaces — reaching an audience that skews older, more affluent and, on UK desktops, far larger than Bing's headline market share suggests. For many small businesses it means cheaper clicks and less competition than Google, and you can import your existing Google Ads campaigns in minutes to test it with barely any extra work. Why Microsoft Ads is worth a

A MEXC user lost about $340,000 via an API key the exchange allegedly failed to revoke — and MEXC has now confirmed the loss and compensated the user in full.

BitMine bought another 17,362 ETH (~$47m), pushing its treasury past 6 million ETH — about 4.9% of Ethereum's supply — cementing it as the largest corporate ETH holder.

Hedera's HBAR-powered IDTrust identity product has been added to the IBM Cloud catalog, positioned to verify AI agents — sending HBAR sharply higher.