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HubSpot Lost 80% Of Its Traffic – CMO Kipp Bodnar Explains Why Revenue Kept Growing

HubSpot's traffic collapse shows why SEOs need to measure revenue per visit, track AI referral conversions, and build audiences beyond Google.

Google Recommends Using Custom 404 Error Pages

Google says missing pages aren't a ranking threat, but what visitors encounter after a 404 can matter to a business.

Technical SEO Audit For AI Search: Watch Us Do It Live [Webinar]

Watch our team audit a real website live with Loren Baker and Vahan Petrosyan, and learn which technical SEO & AI-readiness checks your audit needs.

Google Says Lower AI Mode Monetization Weighed On Search Growth

Google Search revenue growth slowed for a second straight quarter, and lower AI Mode monetization was one reason given.

WordPress Announces Another Security Release: Version 7.1.4

WordPress announced security release version 7.1.4 that fixes 22 vulnerabilities, including one that affects its updater.

Google Gives Restaurants Direct Control Over Ordering Providers

Restaurants can now turn off specific third-party ordering providers in the Business Profile dashboard instead of waiting on each provider to remove them.

AI-Cited Pages More Often Got Straight To The Answer

Pages cited by AI often answered a question in their first lines, though the gap was smaller against pages AI pulled up but didn’t cite.

79% Of Consumers Quit Social Links That Land On A Homepage – Bitly Data

Bitly's survey shows why SEOs should look beyond short links to fix mismatched landing pages and rethink what click-through rates reveal.

Social & Advertising

The Times of London is gearing up to test ‘macro payments’

The Times of London has spent years behind a hard paywall and with roughly 680,000 loyal digital subscribers, it has little reason to regret it. Now it wants the readers…

Why the 2026 midterms could mark a turning point for influencers in political campaigns

Political campaigns are taking a page out of the brand marketing playbook for the upcoming midterms, hiring creators to reach voters across an increasingly disjointed…

Retailers are still figuring out how to tie AI goals to executive compensation

This story originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. One prominent retailer recently made a change to executive payouts, highlighting how much the industry’s…

Media Briefing: Publishers are selling more subscriptions to smaller audiences. The midterms are the next test.

This week’s Media Briefing looks at how publishers are gearing up to turn U.S. midterm election interest into paying subscribers as declining referral traffic raises the…

Social Media TodayOct 29, 2026

Meta says its expanded processing capacity is driving ad results

New insights from the company point to how its artificial intelligence enhancements are powering clicks and conversions.

Social Media TodayOct 29, 2026

Reddit introduces For You feed

The platform’s algorithm-defined feed is designed to improve in-app discovery with tailored recommendations and updates.

Social Media TodayOct 29, 2026

Meta’s Muse AI agents are now available to users in Singapore

The expansion marks the next step in Meta's plan to get billions of people using its AI agents.

AI & Automation

Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists and subscriptions and update delivery instructions

The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions.

Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion

Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in…

Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows

The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.

Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It…

Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on…

Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying

The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.

Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites…

The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites…

TechCrunch AIOct 28, 2026

Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill can now dig through your Gmail to fill out forms

The autofill update lets Chrome pull flight confirmations, tracking info, order details, and other information from your inbox, with your permission.