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Last updated: 08 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Is top-of-funnel content still worth it in 2027?
Organic search clicks have fallen 42% since AI Overviews began expanding in Google Search, while LLMs continue to fully answer users’ informational queries in-platform.…
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Meta Ads: Why creative diversity matters more than volume
From building lookalikes to stacking interests and creating dozens of ad sets for different segments, advertisers on Meta have long focused on audience targeting. Those…
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How To Advertise In Google AI Mode For Ecommerce
Google generates AI Mode ads directly from your product feed, not your ad copy. Here's which Merchant Center attributes decide whether your products get chosen.
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Has Google demoted listicles?
Aren’t listicles dead? Brands have been writing self-serving listicles as a classic SEO play for years, and many have ramped up production at the start of AI Search due…
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Wix Introduces Symphony, An Easy Way For Local Businesses To Use AI Agents
Wix introduced Symphony, an easy and safe way for small to medium size local businesses to use AI agents.
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.Org Sites Are 34% Likelier To Generate Ecommerce Revenue Than .Com
Data shows that alternative domain extensions show stronger performance over traditional .com domains.
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Digiday+ Research: The marketers’ 2026 guide to retail media marketing, including The Home Depot, Milani Cosmetics and Tinuiti
Keeping the complexities of marketing channels in mind, Digiday+ Research has analyzed strategies and challenges across leading marketing channels — like creator…
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USA Today Co. is reformatting content to attract more AI licensing deals
USA Today Co. is testing different ways to reformat its website content for an AI bot audience to attract AI content licensing deals. “We recognize that we have to…
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Future of TV Briefing: Which agency team(s) should be responsible for YouTube Shorts?
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how agencies are sorting out which teams take the lead for buying YouTube Shorts ads. ‘A very big jump ball’ YouTube’s Netflix…
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Why more celebrity-led brands are shutting down
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . Shortly before this summer’s World Cup, where Lionel Messi made a global splash at the tournament, his…
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Dentsu expands and consolidates its commerce and retail media offering under new leadership
As it works under new corporate leadership at a holding company level and regionally in the Americas, Dentsu is narrowly focusing on expanding and consolidating its…
Read on our siteTikTok expands public placement opportunities for advertisers
The company continues to introduce Out of Phone promotion expansions as it brings in-app content to billboards, in-store displays, cinema promos and more.
Read on our siteMeta tests auto-DM response for Instagram ad comments
A similar Reply to Keywords feature is already available via inbox automation and Meta Business Agent options.
Read on our siteYouTube enables users to create multiple custom feeds
YouTube is giving users more direct input into their feed preferences.
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Instagram launches First Draft for Reels
The new option allows users to generate a single video by automatically picking out the best parts from existing clips.
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Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.
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Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
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QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
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Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
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Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
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Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
Runable says 60% to 70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.
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India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
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Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
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OpenAI loses a top data center exec as stream of high-profile departures continues
In a statement to TechCrunch about Malone's departure, OpenAI said it had "recently reorganized" its "infrastructure organization to support the scale and pace of our…
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