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A daily digest of what's happening in search, social, AI and advertising — curated headlines linking to the original sources, refreshed every morning.
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Last updated: 08 July 2026, 00:40 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Local Marketing Is Too Complex: What the Data Says & What To Do
Learn how multi-location brands fix complex marketing & GBP challenges with an AI layer and a 4-step local optimization framework.
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Hydration and SEO: How it works and why it matters
If your site runs on a framework like Next.js or Nuxt, hydration shapes how your pages become interactive, but it’s rarely explained in terms that matter to SEOs. It’s…
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Google Search Console Adds Social & Video Platform Properties
Google is adding platform properties to Search Console, letting creators track how their Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube posts perform in Search and Discover.
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Used or cited: The two ways brands appear in AI search
Ranking within Google’s traditional search results provides diminishing returns. Ads, AI Overviews, and other search engine results page (SERP) features push organic…
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Google merchant listings support sale duration and product category
Google has updated its merchant listing structured data to support sale duration and product category property. This is to more align the merchant listing structured…
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Performance Marketing Meets AI: How To Build An Experimentation Framework That Scales
AI made experiments cheap to run but no easier to trust. A framework for fewer, sharper bets and the discipline to kill the losers fast.
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How to get the most from Microsoft Advertising campaigns
If you’re struggling to scale performance with Microsoft Advertising, you may be treating it as a place to replicate a strategy developed elsewhere. Import can get you…
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Google Search Console gains reporting on social and video platforms
Google Search Console has released what it calls platform properties , which is a way to see how well your social and video content is performing within Google Search.…
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Building a brand worth finding: Signals that fuel discovery
For most of the past decade, organic marketers have operated with a clear north star: visibility. Get on Page 1. Get in the featured snippet. Get seen. That north star…
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Dentsu strikes Meta deal to build plumbing for mass influencer activation
Major advertisers marshal increasingly large hosts of influencers to support their marketing goals. But many lack the necessary internal scaffolding to connect creators…
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Ad Tech Briefing: Corporate America finally buys into soccer as a mainstream sport; shadier elements of the ad industry are obliging
The FIFA World Cup 2026, co-hosted across North America for the first time, has spelled out what some in U.S. media circles have known for some time: association…
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“Brands recognize the cultural dominance of podcasts”: global podcaster Mel Robbins talks AI, ad budgets and audience ownership
Mel Robbins is one of the world’s most listened-to podcasters, and the woman behind the “Let Them” theory — the simple idea about relinquishing control over others that…
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Dollar Shave Club’s bet: AI makes agencies optional, not obsolete
Dollar Shave Club already makes 90% of its advertising in-house. Its new brand boss wants AI to close the rest of the gap. “We are 90% in-house,” said Dollar Shave…
Read on our siteX rolls out updated video editor, including green screen recording
The company also launched multi-language captioning as part of a wider feature rollout that gives the tool new functionality.
Read on our siteWhatsApp adds green dot live status indicators
The feature replaces a previous text label and is available in iOS and Android.
Read on our siteReddit reports more than 23 million daily spam views
The platform’s updated artificial intelligence systems are preventing about 25,000 spam posts and comments each day.
Read on our siteYouTube expands access to supervised kid accounts
The platform has extended its parental oversight for younger children to the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
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In Graphic Detail: The state of streaming highlights the power of creators
Halfway through 2026, the state of streaming underlines just how dependent the category has become on big, personality-driven creators. Streaming platforms like Twitch…
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Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web
With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.
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Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.
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The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine
Forterra has deployed more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs in conflict zones in Ukraine.
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The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human
An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up…
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US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom
SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO, expected to take place on Friday.
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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents
"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.
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You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta
The update is part of Apple's broader effort to make Siri feel more natural and personal, as it rebuilds the assistant around generative AI.
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Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
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If you use Google, you’re training its AI. Here’s how to opt out.
Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and…
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