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March 13, 2026 — Mountain View, California Google Labs and Google DeepMind have expanded their free AI marketing tool, Pomelli, to over 170 countries and territories, enabling small businesses worldwide to generate customized, brand-matched marketing content. The expansion, announced via Google Labs’ X post around March 9-10, follows the tool’s initial public beta launch in … Read more

March 10, 2026 — The IAB Tech Lab released the Content Monetization Protocol (CoMP) Specification v1.0, proposing new payment rules for AI content access by enabling publishers and AI systems to signal permissions and commercial terms prior to crawling or use. The protocol addresses publisher traffic declines exceeding 50% from search referrals and establishes a … Read more

March 10, 2026 — New York IAB Tech Lab released the Content Monetization Protocols (CoMP) Specification v1.0 for public comment, proposing a standardized framework to ensure AI systems like large language models secure commercial agreements with publishers before crawling or using their content.[https://iabtechlab.com/press-releases/iab-tech-lab-announces-comp-framework-to-ensure-llms-have-commercial-agreements-with-publishers-before-content-crawling] The initiative addresses publisher traffic declines exceeding 50% from AI and search … Read more

March 6, 2026 — Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola is expanding AI use in marketing and product development to foster persuasion-led growth amid slowing price hikes, as detailed in a Marketing Tech News report. The global beverage giant is embedding AI across its marketing pipeline for consumer behavior analysis, campaign production, localized adaptations, and performance testing, while … Read more

March 9, 2026 — Mountain View, Calif. Google Labs announced the expansion of its experimental AI marketing tool, Pomelli, to over 170 countries and territories, making Google’s Pomelli AI tool expansion now free for small businesses in 170+ countries with certain regional restrictions. The rollout, confirmed in an official X post from @GoogleLabs, responds to … Read more

March 12, 2026 — A March 2026 analysis by Graphite.io CEO Ethan Smith reveals that AI assistants now account for 56% of global search engine volume, generating 45 billion monthly sessions worldwide and matching more than half of traditional search traffic based on combined web and mobile data from Similarweb. The study, titled “AI Is … Read more

March 9, 2026 — Mountain View, Calif. Google Labs announced the expansion of its experimental AI marketing tool Pomelli to over 170 countries and territories, providing small businesses worldwide with free access to AI-generated, brand-customized marketing content. The expansion, shared via an X post by Google Labs, stated: We’ve heard you and… it’s happening 🙂 … Read more

March 12, 2026 — Mountain View, Calif. — Google Labs announced the expansion of Google’s Pomelli AI Marketing Tool for Small Businesses to over 170 countries and territories on March 9, enabling more small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to generate on-brand marketing content using AI. Launched in late October 2025 in partnership with DeepMind, Google’s … Read more

March 12, 2026 — Mountain View, Calif. Google Labs, in collaboration with Google DeepMind, has expanded Pomelli, its free AI-powered marketing tool for small businesses, to over 170 countries and territories following its public beta launch on October 28, 2025. The tool analyzes a business’s website URL to extract brand elements like colors, fonts, tone, … Read more

March 12, 2026 — Meta Platforms has announced Meta hikes ad prices in six countries to offset Digital Services Taxes, introducing location-based fees of 2-5% on ad costs effective July 2026 in Austria (5%), France, Italy and Spain (3%), Türkiye (5%) and the UK (2%). These fees, previously absorbed by Meta, will now pass regulatory … Read more