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Last updated: 19 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
The Scenic Route To ROI: Mastering Non-Linear Targeting In Google Ads
Six real non-linear campaigns showing which adjacent Google Ads segments actually reach restricted or niche audiences.
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Google investigates Merchant Center outage
Google is investigating an issue affecting Google Merchant Center, though the company has not yet disclosed the cause or the impact on advertisers. The incident could…
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Yelp brings restaurant reservations and waitlists to ChatGPT
Yelp is deepening its partnership with OpenAI by bringing Reservations and Waitlist directly into ChatGPT, allowing users to book restaurant tables without leaving the…
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Technical SEO testing: How to build a stronger experiment
Technical SEO changes are often evaluated with a simple before-and-after comparison. A change goes live, performance is measured over the following weeks, and any…
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Google brings new AI agent capabilities to Ads and Analytics
Google is expanding its AI assistant, Ask Advisor , with new agentic capabilities across Google Ads and Google Analytics, aiming to help marketers uncover insights…
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Google Announces Campaign Benchmarking In Google Analytics
Google announced that its Ask Advisor AI agent will compare campaign performance in Google Analytics against anonymized averages from similar businesses.
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Why the traditional link building model no longer works for AI search
Traditional link building agencies had an incredible run. The pitch was easy to sell: “We build you links from high-DR sites with commercial anchor text, your rankings…
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Microsoft Clarity Now Separates Branded And Non-Branded AI Citations
Clarity now splits AI citation queries into branded and non-branded. The two mean different things, and only one counts as discovery.
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How to run ChatGPT ads: A step-by-step guide from early campaigns
What could become one of the most important ad platforms of the next decade is live, and most advertisers still haven’t run a single campaign on it. OpenAI’s self-serve…
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Common Crawl Published A Manual For Being Visible To AI, I Automated It
Check captures, robots.txt history, block fingerprints and a live CCBot probe for any domain, free, straight from Common Crawl's own archives.
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How customers build confidence across the search journey
Every week, there’s another headline about the future of search. Google is losing ground. ChatGPT is growing. Reddit is becoming the place people trust. TikTok is…
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How To Remove Negative Content From Google Before AI Answers Cite It
Can you remove negative content from Google? Uncover the truth about suppression and overcoming unfavorable online articles.
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Meta adds dedicated ad exclusion audiences
The option will help brands avoid reaching people who don’t want to see their promotions or people who legally cannot be targeted.
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Users in the U.S. and the U.K. turn to the platform’s communities for advice and recommendations and often trust people on the app more than family or friends.
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Meta faces a raft of social media addiction lawsuits
The company is fighting to protect itself from liability in multiple cases of social media addiction and a potentially crushing wave of payouts.
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Meta supports Texas data center guidelines
The company released a statement upholding Governor Greg Abbott’s standards amid widespread backlash against unfettered development.
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The Meta owner published a 6,500-word essay outlining his hopes for the future of artificial intelligence and taking aim at critics and policymakers.
Read on our siteYouTube announces changes to creator monetization
Beginning in February 2027, the company will double watch hour requirements for new channels looking to enter the program.
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OpenAI is coming for SMB advertisers
Want to know where OpenAI’s ads business is headed? Check its job listings. Smaller advertisers are next. The platform is currently building out a dedicated SMB ads…
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Zoom relies on creators to boost AI search results
Zoom has a brand awareness problem, but not in the way that you think. The tech company is trying to convince people that it’s an end-to-end, AI-first work platform…
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Meet the interior design creator who made a reluctant pivot that paid off
Like many creators, Julie Sousa’s journey first started during Covid, when she began uploading educational interior design videos to TikTok. She already had a successful…
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Why Georgia-Pacific bet the future of programmatic on supply, not demand
Georgia-Pacific didn’t set out to prove a point about programmatic’s future in 2024. It set out to stop wasting money on 30-odd SSPs that all appeared to be selling more…
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Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision
Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can…
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Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.
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