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Last updated: 05 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Reddit Begins Testing Ads In Its Own Search Results
Reddit is testing ads in its own search results with select advertisers and may match ads to what people search for.
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Businesses Treat Your AI Agent 3 Different Ways
If a website cannot tell an AI agent from the customer, it cannot treat the agent differently. Three steps to fix that before agents arrive.
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Google AI Mode Adds Booking & Quote Links For Home Services
AI Mode now links home service searches to booking and quote pages. Here's how businesses reach those pages and what partners say about lead fees.
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Reach Is Losing As A Paid Media KPI: 4 Signals From Jupiter Festival Miami For 2027
Build your 2027 paid media plan around attention, creators, and streaming, while testing whether new metrics drive incremental sales.
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The 11 SEO Features Every CMS Should Ship With (Most Still Don’t)
Cut recurring developer tickets with essential CMS SEO controls, smarter automation, and safeguards against indexing and redirect mistakes.
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Reddit Is Going Logged-In Only – Brands Still Need To Be In The Conversation
Reddit conversations help shoppers validate purchases, giving brands a reason to stay engaged as login tests raise questions about search and AI access.
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WTF is scene-level targeting for CTV?
This WTF guide, sponsored by Wurl, explores how CTV advertisers are driving positive attention and improved performance across the entire funnel by aligning creative…
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Digiday+ Research 2026 Creator Marketing Index: A brand guide to social media campaigns
08 Introduction As creator marketing becomes a fixture in many brands’ marketing strategies, creators’ roles are shifting and expanding. Brands may pay creators to…
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What DoorDash’s Instacart acquisition says about the modern delivery platform pitch
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . These days, delivery platforms have to offer more than just delivery services to brands and retailers.…
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Future of TV Briefing: What it costs brands to fund long-form creator series
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the economics behind brands sponsoring creator-led long-form original video series. Premium programming Instagram’s creator…
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Case for and against – sticking with a Publicis-owned LiveRamp
In the months since Publicis Groupe announced its $2.2 billion deal to acquire LiveRamp , CMOs have been considering a crucial question: should I stay, or should I go?…
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Good ads have a new name, ‘entertainment-first’ and SharkNinja is using it for its holiday campaign
Entertainment-first has spent the year working its way into most conversations about marketing, including a fair few of Digiday’s. SharkNinja’s holiday campaign is the…
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Here are the questions on advertisers’ minds after the DoorDash-Instacart deal
It’s been almost a week since DoorDash officially announced its plans to acquire Instacart — a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. DoorDash’s takeover of Instacart…
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AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress — here’s how they fared
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.
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Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
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Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
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OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business…
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Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
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Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits.
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility.…
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DuckDuckGo pitches itself to schools amid backlash over Google’s AI policy
DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.
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Building on open source AI? Hugging Face’s policy chief on the costs, risks, and trade-offs
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility.…
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I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling
Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.
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Google faces backlash for plan that would turn off Search for schools that restrict AI
Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.
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TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Doors open at 9 a.m. ET in Boston
Today is the day to join TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston's SoWa Power Station. Register now to join this founder-focused conference today.
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