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October 23, 2026

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.

October 23, 2026

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.

October 19, 2026

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.

October 16, 2026

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.

October 16, 2026

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.

October 16, 2026

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.

October 16, 2026

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.

October 14, 2026

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.

October 13, 2026

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.

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September 29, 2026

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.

September 20, 2026

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.

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July 29, 2026

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.

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July 23, 2026

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.

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July 8, 2026

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.

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July 2, 2026

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.

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June 30, 2026

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.

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June 24, 2026

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

June 24, 2026

Meta Launches AI Tools for Creating and Testing Ads

The company is testing AI tools that generate ads from campaign performance data

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June 18, 2026

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

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June 18, 2026

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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