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Meta Delays the Terms That Let It Crawl Business Websites
A crawling right attached to using Meta for business reaches every website behind an ad account, not just what companies post on Meta.

Meta Puts the Risk of Its AI Ad Edits on Advertisers
Liability for AI-made ad content no longer depends on whether the advertiser chose to use the AI.

Meta Product Browsing Is On by Default in Existing Ads
Meta is moving more of the path from ad to purchase onto its own apps, where it controls what shoppers see.

Meta Tests Aggregated View Time to Measure Weekly Attention
Meta argues that judging video ads by a single long view is a television habit that short-form viewing does not follow.

Meta Adds 15 Always-On Topics to Reels Trending Ads
Meta is turning a single trending-content placement into inventory brands can pick by moment, and later by audience.

Facebook Tests First Impression Ads for the Top Feed Slot
Meta says advertisers have asked for the first position in Feed for years, and one brand a day means it is still measuring that demand.

Meta Opens Ads Super Burst for Reserved Brand Windows
Meta is selling brands guaranteed blocks of time again, a buy that sits closer to television airtime than to the auction.

Facebook Opens Feed and Reels Ranking to Typed Requests
Meta is adding stated interest to Facebook ranking that has long relied on behaviour, bringing over a control it first built for Instagram and Threads.

Meta’s Muse Fills Most Shopping Picks From Sites It Browses
A product catalog gets a brand considered by Meta’s agent, but on Profound’s numbers the pages the agent opens itself decide most of what a shopper is shown.

Meta Connects Its Muse Agent to Ad Accounts and Shopify
Meta is moving from selling ad inventory to small businesses toward selling them software that runs the work.

Meta Puts Scheduling and Links Behind a Subscription
Charging per asset turns every extra brand account an agency runs into a recurring line on its budget.

Meta Advantage+ Creative Now Rewrites Text on Ad Images
Meta’s ad system pushes advertisers to supply many creative variations, and few can produce that volume by hand.

Half of UK brands are advertising on Meta without a single proven winner
New data reading 5,460 live UK Meta ads finds that most brands are spending week after week without one ad that has stood the test of time.

Meta Rolls Out Muse Image To Generate Ad Images
Meta Superintelligence Labs built the model in-house, and Meta is now routing it into the creative and shopping tools businesses rely on.

Meta Is Turning Product Data Into a Core Ad Signal
With Meta's AI assembling each ad in real time, feed quality and raw creative become the two levers advertisers still control.

WhatsApp Rolls Out Usernames: How to Reserve Yours
The update lets users connect without revealing their phone numbers, which was previously the default way users connected on the app.

Instagram Is Building Long-Form Video for the Living Room
The platform is pushing past short-form Reels into the lean-back, streaming-style viewing that YouTube and Netflix dominate on CTVs

Meta Launches AI Tools for Creating and Testing Ads
The company is testing AI tools that generate ads from campaign performance data

Meta Launches Forum, a Reddit-Style Groups App
Forum is the latest in a run of niche standalone apps from Meta, reflecting Zuckerberg's stated plan to use AI efficiencies to ship many more products

Meta Rolling Out Live Video Ads to Instagram
The push deepens Meta's bet on live commerce, a market TikTok Shop and Amazon reached first, and lands days before the company's Cannes Lions appearance
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