Made for Advertising (MFA) websites – auto-generated, low quality content that exists just to host advertising – have emerged as this summer’s favorite object of hand-wringing in some advertising circles.  If that’s what’s been keeping you up nights, you’ll be happy to hear that media buying agency GroupM is banning them from its inclusion lists, using Jounce Media’s MFA blacklist.  Now you can go back to worrying about shark attacks.

Twilio is kicking off its SIGNALS conference, which means we get a bouquet of product announcements.  Most relevant here is their hop onto the external data access bandwagon, with Zero Copy Architecture enabling direct access to data warehouse contents.  Other new features include generative AI-built customer journeys and support for new entities such as business accounts, subscriptions, and products.

Preliminary findings by the European Commission state that Apple and Google are in violation of the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Among the findings, Google Search is accused of prioritizing Google’s own products and services in results; Apple is instructed to improve interoperability between iOS and third-party devices. The companies now have an opportunity to respond.