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Last updated: 19 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
AI Visibility Measurement: What To Track & What To Ignore
Citations, sentiment, and LLM referral traffic make poor KPIs. Here are the AI visibility metrics that actually connect to leads, pipeline, and revenue.
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What happens when AI Overviews contradict paid search ads?
For months, the search industry across SEO and PPC has been bracing for the ultimate SERP fusion: an all-in-one AI panel where your sponsored ad, your organic citation,…
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Why paid search could be your AI search advantage
Ask most marketing teams how they plan to stay visible in AI search, and you’ll most commonly hear: content strategies, SEO audits, and schema projects. What rarely…
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Google Assistant to be discontinued on Android starting September 4
Over a year ago, Google told us that Gemini would be replacing the Google Assistant . Well, we finally have an official date for when Gemini will replace Google…
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Reddit Wants To Be The Destination, Not Just The Source Behind Search & AI
Reddit's Q2 call laid out the daily destination strategy and the participation problem standing in its way. What marketers should do now.
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Why the F.A.C.T.S. model is the key to search everywhere optimization by SOCi
For years, Google has used the E-E-A-T framework to assess the quality of web content. The acronym stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and…
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Google releases help doc for Performance Max pay-per-lead goals
Google has published three new Help Center pages explaining how Performance Max campaigns with pay-per-lead goals will work, following its announcement that Local…
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Google launches secure API access pilot for manager accounts
Google is piloting a new security feature for the Google Ads API that gives manager account owners greater control over which applications can perform sensitive API…
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Reddit CEO Intends To Show More Reviews And Recommendations
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman revealed intent to leverage the platform's vast amount of evergreen content on recommendations and reviews.
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Digiday+ Research: The 2026 guide to holiday marketing strategies, including A-Frame Brands, Mastercard and Ritual
As the 2026 holiday season approaches, advertisers are planning their marketing strategies amid an uncertain economy. Consumers continue to grapple with higher prices…
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Sony is scaling up its Playstation advertising ambitions
Gaming’s next battleground isn’t consoles or subscriptions, it’s ad budgets. Electronic Arts and Xbox have already started chasing marketers. Now Sony’s lining up to do…
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Future of TV Briefing: Why Aéropostale is investing in creator-led episodic shows
This week’s Future of TV Briefing features a Q&A with Catalyst Brands evp and chief customer and marketing officer Marisa Thalberg about Aéropostale’s recent creator-led…
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Inside the indie agencies founded by Omnicom and IPG’s former staffers
New Mexico is a long way from Madison Avenue. Far enough that there’s space for alternative ways of thinking about advertising, and how it’s made, to emerge. Bennie…
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The Rundown: Google’s legal woes with ad tech rivals
Teads has filed suit against Google’s ad tech practices, bringing the sum total of such cases to four as the industry awaits the looming remedies ruling from Justice…
Read on our siteMeta ads introduces stablecoin payment options
Following the demise of its ill-fated Libra experiment, the company is offering third-party cryptocurrency options for creators and advertisers.
Read on our sitePinterest leans on AI to drive improved performance in Q2
The company added 9 million monthly active users but platform growth was down in Europe and flat in the U.S. and Canada.
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Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and…
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MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store
MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
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SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.
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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open…
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Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
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Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you
Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.
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Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
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