Perplexity blocked all markdown advertising on Time.com from influencing its AI agents and search results, calling the practice deceptive, per Digiday's August 11, 2026 report. Time's program, run wit…
Perplexity has begun blocking ads served to AI agents on Time's website, warning publishers that running such 'deceptive advertising' could result in downranking in its search index. The ads, created …
Perplexity has blocked Time's markdown ads from influencing its search index, calling them 'deceptive advertising,' less than two weeks after Time began serving ads to AI agents. Perplexity's chief co…
Time magazine has begun serving ads specifically aimed at AI agents, converting its webpages to markdown and using AI to generate FAQ-style sponsored content, with brands including Ally Bank and Proje…
TIME is serving AI crawlers a stripped-down markdown version of its website with ads embedded, while human visitors receive the full HTML page, according to a test by an unnamed researcher. The markdo…
Adtech startup Mobian and publisher Time are serving 'Agent Ads' to AI crawlers on text-only webpages, with brands including Ally Bank and the Project Management Institute participating, sparking deba…
Time has begun serving ads to AI bots, with Ally Bank and Project Management Institute among the first buyers, using AI-powered ad tech platform Mobian to convert its pages into markdown and generate …
Time has begun serving ads to AI agents, with Ally Bank and Project Management Institute among the first buyers, using AI-powered ad tech platform Mobian to convert pages into markdown and generate FA…