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Last updated: 07 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
GEO Is A Distraction: Here’s Where The Real Opportunity Is
Universal Cart, UCP, WebMCP, intelligent eyewear: the agentic web is arriving. Marie Haynes maps the opportunities most businesses are ignoring.
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The Junior Hiring Gap Your 2027 Marketing Budget Should Name
Make junior hiring an explicit part of your 2027 SEO budget, with defined learning roles and a scorecard that tracks unfilled seats.
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How Rank Trackers Say They Handle Suspect Google Results
Rank trackers describe how they check suspect Google results, what customers see during checks, and what they say about reprocessing and past results.
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Do Comparison Posts, Roundups & Listicles Still Have Any Value? – Ask An SEO
Roundups and comparison posts can still win customers, build trust, and grow audiences when you create them for readers instead of rankings.
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Inside ChatGPT’s Ad Auction: How Relevance, Bids, And Memory Decide Placement
OpenAI explains how a custom LLM orchestrator interprets multi-turn conversations, nominates ads for auction, and drops placements that miss response deadlines.
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Creators say it’s difficult to make money from news — with platform rules and brand guidelines
Nearly 60 percent of Americans regularly get their news from social media rather than traditional media networks, according to a recent Syracuse University study . But…
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AI boosts discovery but reviews still seal the deal, new research shows
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . This holiday season, shoppers aren’t blindly trusting AI assistants to do their shopping on their…
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Future of Marketing Briefing: Advertisers have more ways than ever to choose a holdco, and free holdcos to choose from
There’s no longer one way to pitch for a big account, and the holdco earnings calls keep proving it. Asked about it on Havas’ earnings call last week, CFO and COO…
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Omnicom lands Coca-Cola’s North American media business, as WPP retains its global remit
The cola wars have a new front and it runs straight through Omnicom. Weeks after PepsiCo ended a relationship with the holding company that had lasted almost 30 years,…
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Omnicom said its integration of IPG is nearly done, and the results are starting to show it
In announcing its solid third-quarter earnings on Thursday, Omnicom appears to be on track to wrap up its integration of Interpublic Group, which it closed on buying…
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Why holiday returns demand fresh thinking from retailers
Tony D’Onofrio, president, Sensormatic Solutions The holiday season is a time to unplug. Schedules become more flexible, families come together and many workplaces shift…
Read on our siteMeta says shopping is Muse’s primary use case
On a third quarter earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg touted the artificial intelligence agent’s download numbers and outlined its benefits.
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Alongside its third quarter earnings, the company revealed usage notes and engagement data for Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
Read on our siteSnapchat says some AI users are willing to trade privacy for utility
A new study examines the evolving attitudes about artificial intelligence tools and data collection.
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Meta hit with $25B fine over privacy breaches
A New Mexico judge ordered the company to pay damages after a jury found Meta guilty of exposing user data, per Reuters.
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Meta hit with $25 billion fine over privacy breaches
A New Mexico judge ordered the company to pay damages after a jury found Meta guilty of exposing user data, per Reuters.
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Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony AI and Nvidia
The company plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
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Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
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OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
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1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
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OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
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Canva releases its first image generation model
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
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Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models…
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Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
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