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Does My Product Page Copy Still Matter If Agents Read Feeds And Schema? – Ask An SEO

Product page copy builds shopper trust and fills gaps in AI feeds, giving customers the details they need to buy.

3 Predictions For 2027, And Why You Won’t Be Able To Check Them

The surface that ranks and the surface that earns are decoupling. Three predictions for Google in 2027, plus one about whether you'll know.

Google Search Profile Badges Expose The Publisher Traffic Crisis

Google published guidance for adding a Search profile badge as Search becomes a destination for following creators and publisher.

Google UCP Update Lets Merchants Enable Cart Transfer To Site

Google is rolling out cart transfer and checkout testing in the Merchant Center UCP hub, plus a YouTube ads beta and wider AI insights.

It Was There A Minute Ago

A model can know the right answer and still defer to a wrong tool result. What does that mean for your visibility report?

Social & Advertising

Google’s ad tech remedies decoded: what changes, what doesn’t and what will take years

Google monopolized online advertising and the remedy is a code of conduct. Seventeen months of post-verdict wrangling brought the industry to this point. Judge Leonie M.…

Should brands swerve, or steer as F1’s U.S. viewership adapts to new coverage?

This article has been updated to reflect information from Formula 1 about its Apple TV performance. Between the disruption of its racing calendar caused by the war in…

Nearly all luxury resale transactions on TikTok Shop US now come from livestreams

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Livestreaming is proving to be big business for TikTok Shop’s burgeoning resale economy. Year-to-date, 94%…

Media Briefing: Overheard at the Digiday Publishing Summit, Sept. ‘26 ‘Google Zero’ edition

This week’s Media Briefing recaps what publishers said about search traffic declines, opaque AI licensing contracts and monetizing AI visibility during closed-door town…

Inside the complex anatomy of agency AI bills

The makeup of an agency’s AI bill is getting more complicated. Agency execs say AI costs are growing and metered model usage is becoming a trend, forcing execs to take a…

Why WPP isn’t the biggest casualty in the PepsiCo-Coca-Cola-Publicis shuffle

WPP is set to win Coca-Cola’s global media, data and tech business. For CEO Cindy Rose, the timing couldn’t be better. A year into t rying to fix the holdco, a win of…

Why advertisers should stop treating verification like a receipt

The advertising industry has spent years treating verification as a relatively narrow exercise, asking only, “Was the impression viewable? Was there invalid traffic? Was…

Social Media TodaySep 17, 2026

X adds in-stream stock trading

Users in the U.S. can now tap through Cashtag partner listings to buy or trade stocks in-stream, furthering the platform’s ambitions to provide financial services.

Social Media TodaySep 17, 2026

Report highlights the value of creator-led collabs on Instagram

Creator-published brand collaborations outperform brand posts and brand-published collaborations, according to a new study from Emplifi.

AI & Automation

Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia

Huawei is accelerating the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip as it pushes to compete with Nvidia and close China’s AI computing gap with the U.S.

2 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Last day to book your exhibit table at Disrupt is September 18. Two days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders on…

Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls

People can use these assistants to make restaurant reservations and cancel subscriptions.

Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers

A new coalition that includes Google, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Emerald AI wants to find 100 GW of grid capacity for new data centers.

Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform

Treble's voice simulation platform is used by voice AI model developers and AI wearable and robotics companies,

Your startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent: Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain what that changes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

This session will explore how early-stage companies are building teams where humans and AI agents work alongside each other — and how founders can do that without…

Snap tries to make the case again for its $2,200 smart glasses

Since Specs' debut earlier this year, Snap has clearly been looking for an opportunity to explain why the smart glasses deserve to exist.

Al Gore says the real AI risk isn’t data centers

In an interview with TechCrunch, Al Gore suggested he isn't losing sleep over AI data center emissions — he's more worried about the AI industry's own warnings about…

Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?

Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight…

After accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera

Can Meta dodge the "pervert glasses" accusations with a new camera-free product?