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Last updated: 08 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google makes the Preferred Source button more seamless
Google is offering a new Preferred Source button for publishers that makes the subscription process smoother while keeping readers on your site. Now when a user clicks…
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Google Discover lets you customize your feed using conversational search
Google Discover will allow you to use conversational search to customize your feed to content that better matches your desired topics. Google wrote , “you’ll be able to…
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Meta AI can now analyze and optimize Meta Ads campaigns
Meta is expanding Meta AI for small businesses, giving advertisers the ability to connect their Meta ad campaigns and Google Workspace data directly to the AI assistant…
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How to improve Google Ads lead quality with CRM data
After years of auditing Google Ads accounts, one thing continues to surprise me. So many customer relationship management (CRM) tools still aren’t talking to Google Ads.…
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The Conversion Setup Errors That Break Smart Bidding
Smart Bidding problems often trace back to broken conversion tracking, not bidding strategy. Seven silent setup errors that corrupt the data feeding your campaigns.
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3 phases to build authority and earn AI citations
There’s plenty of noise in the search industry about what does and doesn’t move the needle for AI visibility. Questions about FAQ schema, content volume, and llms.txt…
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Google adds new AI Max testing and planning tools
Google is expanding AI Max for Search campaigns with new testing and planning capabilities designed to help advertisers understand the impact of changing budgets, ROI…
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SEO priorities for 2027: Your guide to search success
You can rank well and still miss the search. A page can earn a top organic position while an AI Overview answers the query above it. Your brand can get mentioned in…
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Prompt Injections Just Proved Something SEO Has Known For 25 Years
Hidden white-on-white text was an SEO trick 25 years ago. Now, it tells AI models what to conclude about you.
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The next AI money grab: Charging for editorial corrections
A company contacts a publisher to correct an outdated author byline, job title, company description, or slogan. The publisher agrees. Kind of. They’re happy to make the…
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Why Reddit’s ChatGPT Citation Drop Isn’t Fully Explained
New Promptwatch data shows a sharp drop in Reddit's ChatGPT Search citations this month.
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Google Ads API v25.1 expands measurement and insights
Google released Google Ads API v25.1, adding new capabilities for conversion and brand lift measurement, competitive benchmarking, brand sentiment analysis and loyalty…
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Microsoft Advertising rolls out AI Max globally for Search campaigns
Microsoft Advertising has begun rolling out AI Max globally, bringing a new suite of AI-powered targeting, creative and landing page capabilities to Search campaigns.…
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Creators are moving into brands’ AI search playbooks
There’s a new deliverable on the creator brief: AI visibility. As more people start their shopping journey in AI chatbots, marketers are hoping creators can help put…
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Butler/Till extends agentic media buying tests into audio with iHeartMedia
AI media buying tests are expanding to audio. Rochester, N.Y.-based independent media agency Butler/Till and iHeartMedia have been testing the use of AI media buying…
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Target plans to lower prices after receiving almost $1 billion in tariff refunds
This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. Tariff refunds were a massive tailwind for Target last quarter that could help it continue to lower…
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Media Briefing: Ads for AI agents have a measurement problem
This week’s Media Briefing looks at the emerging race to measure and attribute ads served to AI agents — and why the industry is still far from agreeing on a standard…
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The winners and losers of YouTube’s view count and monetization overhaul
Earlier this year, YouTube made a major infrastructure play to help iron out the operational layer of the creator economy. In the last week, the platform announced two…
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Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast
Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of 10 hurdles the company must overcome to make a…
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Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
The company said that the dictation feature works across all apps, just like other tools such as Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue.
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Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
Binance's Agent OS works with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far…
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OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.
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Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup
SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in…
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