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Last updated: 19 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google’s Documentation Refresh Offers Ideas For SEO Content Updates
Google's updated documentation refresh shows where to focus on when updating your own content for SEO.
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What Opting Out Of Google’s AI Search Features Means Now
Google's AI search opt-out is rolling out as Top Stories appear inside AI Overviews. What the control covers and what businesses can measure before deciding.
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Google publishes its first dedicated guide for YouTube audio ads
Google has released its first standalone help page explaining how to create YouTube audio ads, giving advertisers an official reference for the format’s specifications…
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Google Analytics adds campaign diagnostics for missing aggregate identifiers
Google is giving marketers a new way to spot attribution problems before they distort campaign reporting. What’s happening . Google Analytics has introduced a new…
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D+ Research: Marketers navigate a changing CTV landscape
This is an excerpt from our Digiday+ Research report “ The marketers’ 2026 guide to a shifting CTV landscape, including YouTube, Peacock and Roku ,” which analyzes the…
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Who owns the creative brief? Brands and creators are renegotiating the relationship
Brands used to treat creators like media buys, spending ad dollars to rent their audiences. Now, they’re prodding creators to help them shape concepts, influence…
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Media Buying Briefing: The latest lures holding companies are using to grow principal media
Principal media once again finds itself in headlines, at least in Digiday. That’s because it seems the agency holding companies are throwing any and everything they have…
Read on our siteLinkedIn reports solid Q2 revenue growth
Microsoft doesn’t release many performance details, but LinkedIn CEO Daniel Shapero said there was also double-digit member growth.
Read on our siteMeta shares holiday 2026 tips for small businesses
The company offered guidance on how to plan for ad spending and promotional budgeting ahead of the upcoming shopping season.
Read on our siteReddit’s user base grows to more than 130M daily actives
The company’s Q2 performance update also showed robust revenue growth despite what CEO Steve Huffman called “choppy” search referrals.
Read on our siteSnapchat will no longer recommend AI slop
The platform is updating its Spotlight feed to promote human-made content and downgrade anything wholly created by artificial intelligence.
Read on our siteLinkedIn offers the option to report AI slop
The platform is testing a new feature that allows posts and comments to be privately flagged as being generated by artificial intelligence.
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Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman is calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."
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Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps
Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.
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YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’
Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."
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Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT
This isn’t the first time a tech CEO has promised that AI can shield users — and specifically users’ morning commutes — from the messiness and inefficiency of human…
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This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps
This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.
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OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.
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India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them
India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.
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Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation
A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
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Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of…
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Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content
Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI…
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Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users
Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.
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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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