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Last updated: 07 November 2026, 05:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Search Share Fell To 12% For North American Publishers: Chartbeat
Search's share of North American publisher pageviews fell to 12%, but a lower share alone doesn't show fewer search pageviews.
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A New Place To Look: Where Your Next AI Citations & Clicks Come From
CTM’s Lisa Salvatore and Brian Barranger show how to mine customer conversations for useful content, qualified-lead criteria, conversion feedback, and product-demand…
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Meta Drops Training From Its Crawl Clause And Keeps The Crawl
Meta removed training from the crawling clause in its upcoming Commercial Terms. The permission to crawl sites tied to business users is still in place.
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B2B Lead Generation: How To Choose Your 2027 Marketing Channels [Webinar]
Learn how to choose B2B marketing channels, fund a trial campaign and measure results with CallRail and Matter Made on October 29.
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How a fashion creator turned audience demand into a 500+ client styling business
Maddy Gustini built a following by telling men what to wear. Now she’s turning that audience into a styling business — and a stake in a fashion app. Gustini started…
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Forbes looks to Google AI pilot for insights as publishers seek value beyond the click
Forbes has joined Google’s paid News AI pilot that gives Google expanded rights to its content to test new ways of providing readers with context about stories before…
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Apple finally explains its Safari block, and identity companies are in its sights
A month after Apple started cutting off companies that follow people around the web in its Safari browser to target them with ads, the company has finally explained…
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Inside the post-Google playbook: Subscriptions, AI and team reorgs
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Publishers’ hemming and hawing over the Google Zero post-search era has reached a fever pitch. Now, they’re finally doing something…
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Ad Tech Briefing: Can flipping the ad auction wrest control of ad tech from Google?
Last week, one of the industry’s premier fall ad tech gatherings took place, where host Prebid offered a sneak peek of a bold vision: an open internet without Google’s…
Read on our siteYouTube tests new Shorts incentives
The platform is experimenting with bonuses for invited creators and expanding its shopping affiliates program, as well as updating shopping analytics.
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Pinterest adds Barbie pink to Restyle
The app’s artificial intelligence-powered design tool will allow Pinners to reimagine their homes as Barbie DreamHouses.
Read on our sitePinterest shares festive holiday brand guide
The overview offers tips for marketers to help prepare them for peak shopping season, including a checklist for promotional success.
Read on our siteThreads introduces NFL commentary team
The app is bringing in former athletes, veteran commentators and community members to provide insights and analysis and drive sports engagement.
Read on our siteInstagram Chief says stronger AI slop prevention is needed
Adam Mosseri said in both a weekly Q&A and in a separate Threads post that the company was actively trying to combat artificial intelligence content replication.
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Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant
Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that…
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Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and…
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Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal
If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.
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Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says
The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several…
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Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents that employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.
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Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some…
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Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life
AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
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Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and…
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Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
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