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Last updated: 08 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
USA TODAY overhauls audience strategy, citing search pressure
USA TODAY is reorganizing its audience team after telling employees that search traffic is under pressure and platforms are increasingly keeping users from clicking…
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The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14,…
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Getting Your Product Into ChatGPT Isn’t The Hard Part, Getting It Through Checkout Is
Getting surfaced in ChatGPT is the easy half. Three checks every retailer should run before connecting a fourth agentic commerce protocol.
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SEO and PPC are sitting on each other’s best insights
Having both SEO and PPC doesn’t mean you have a search strategy. It means you have two channel strategies. That’s very different, and the gap between them is where…
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How To Measure Your Brand’s Visibility In AI Answers (And Fix What You Find)
Explore how to improve your brand's visibility in AI search results and understand ranking discrepancies with traditional methods.
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Limited Ad Serving: Why Google Ads suddenly show less often
Google Ads can limit how often your ads appear without disapproving them or suspending your account. The Limited Ad Serving policy restricts an account’s eligibility to…
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People Aren’t Leaving Google For AI. They’re Using Both
Research shows how people can keep using Google while making fewer traditional searches and clicking through to fewer websites.
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How to build a defensible SEO budget for 2027
The simplest way to defend your SEO budget has been to point to growth indicators like improved rankings and increased organic traffic. Usually, the story was simple…
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Google’s New Weather AI In Search Continues Shift Away From 10 Blue Links
Google's latest Search integration is another step to a future where users get things done without traditional search results.
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Product Pages Get 24% Of AI Citations, Reddit & YouTube 4%
Ten Speed's citation study shows product pages beating Reddit nearly six to one for B2B buyers, verified only after six pointed fact-check questions.
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Media agencies build audit tools to prevent AI agents from overcharging
Media agencies deploying AI to speed up their planning and buying practices are discovering that the tech won’t deliver savings if it’s left to run by itself — it has to…
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Marketers say usage rights are driving up the price to work with creators
Creator pricing is a problem , and everyone is trying to determine the best solution. But one of the biggest hurdles that creators, their agents and the creator…
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Future of Marketing: Brands want creators who can win over humans and machines at once
Two things drive creator spending now. Whether they move audiences and whether they move algorithms inside AI platforms. The second piece is moving fast enough that…
Read on our siteWhatsApp adds bill payment in India
App owner Meta has been working to create a messaging platform similar to China’s WeChat, and this new functionality is a step toward that goal.
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The platform is running a new local affiliate shopping test and clarifying some of its language around sponsored acknowledgments.
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Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.
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Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a…
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Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library
Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra…
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Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event
Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and make your mark in the Silicon Valley scene. Apply before the application closes…
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The sameness problem behind those unappetizing AI-generated menus
While restaurant owners might look to generative AI as a shortcut to sprucing up their menu, customers can viscerally sense that something is wrong with the food.
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Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
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Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
The high-profile startup's annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.
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Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve…
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Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model
For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, Meta is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about 95% for users who "contribute"…
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