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Last updated: 19 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google Chief Scientist Who Helped Build Modern Search And AI Steps Away
Google loses Jeff Dean, who helped build Google Search and AI, replaced by DeepMind's Demis Hassabis as Chief Scientist.
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AI Referrals Are Recreating The Oldest Mistake In Conversion Optimization
If you run CRO or SEO, the oldest mistake in your discipline just came back wearing a new referrer string. Here's the fix.
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The Future Of Discoverability
Articles alone stopped being a viable product. A discoverability framework for publishers: passive, active, owned – plus the intent-led journalism that gets you there.
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When AI Takes The Click, Click Worthiness Should Guide Your Strategy
Search volume told you what people want to know. It no longer tells you whether they need you after AI answers. Click Worthiness does.
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Microsoft Advertising Adds AI Visibility Insights, PMax Testing, And Creative Preview Updates
Microsoft Advertising expands AI Visibility, Performance Max testing, and Ad Preview Hub with new reporting, experimentation, and creative review capabilities.
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Microsoft Advertising adds excluded content terms for Audience Ads
Microsoft Advertising is rolling out Excluded content terms, a new brand safety control that lets advertisers stop Audience Ads from appearing alongside specific page…
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Does topical focus make your brand more visible?
Should you keep your content strategy focused on a few core topics, or can you go broad to really widen the “funnel”? In Does topical authority matter in AI Search? , I…
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10 SEO use cases for auditing your accessibility tree for AI search
Have you ever checked what your website looks like to something that can’t see it? AI agents don’t admire your hero image or your brand colors. They read the…
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Google tightens Ads policy for government document providers
Google is tightening its Government documents and services policy, introducing stricter requirements for advertisers that promote government-issued documents and…
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Kroger’s AI shopping assistant has ads at launch
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . Kroger has made advertising part of its AI shopping assistant on day one, following the implementation…
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Why brands like Gap Inc. and Staples are inviting their employees to be creators
Employee creator networks are the new creator networks. Last week, Gap Inc. announced it was opening up its creator program to its employees across Old Navy, Gap,…
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OpenAI brings product carousels to ChatGPT ads
OpenAI is launching an ad carousel. The format, which has been seen via screenshots and verified by Digiday, shows a product carousel that allows multiple products to…
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Media Briefing: The case for and against markdown for AI bots
This week’s Media Briefing unpacks the rise of markdown as an AI optimization strategy for publishers, and why not everyone is convinced it’s necessary. The markdown…
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Instagram shares tips on video creation
How to make engaging content using Meta’s Edits app, according to the platform.
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The app is letting more subreddit managers use its artificial intelligence-powered Rules Hub while also restricting access for users who don’t log in.
Read on our siteCan the apps stop AI slop?
Social platforms have been overwhelmed by artificial intelligence-generated content, but companies encourage AI use even as they try to stem the tide.
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The licensing deal will allow creators on the app to use characters and content across brands including Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars in their own videos.
Read on our siteSnapchat tries to teach brands to be funny
The app released guidance on how marketers can connect with younger users through humor and offered tips on effective comedy writing.
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Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases
Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
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Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.
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Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google
Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
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Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
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