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Last updated: 19 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google Ads will use generative AI to resize Performance Max video ads
Google Ads is rolling out an asset optimization upgrade for existing Performance Max video ads. The update uses generative AI to extend videos into missing aspect…
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ChatGPT draws more paid clicks from Google than any other top destination
iPullRank analyzed 13.1 billion search events from 9.1 million opted-in users, covering October 2024 through December 2025, to understand how Google users behave when…
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YouTube Changes How It Counts Views On Long-Form & Live
YouTube is changing how it counts views on long-form videos and live streams.
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Google Search Console Generative AI Performance Report in Search data bug
Google has confirmed the reports of a bug in the Search Console performance reports, specifically with the Generative AI in Search performance report. There is a data…
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The AI Conversations Leaking Into Your Search Console
Search Console records what people say to AI Mode. Here's how to pull those fragments out and sort them into seven buckets.
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Ginny Marvin on Smart Bidding, AI and why PPC fundamentals still matter
Watch this video on YouTube Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin, joined me this week on PPC Live The Podcast for a very interesting episode of her sharing mistakes, lessons…
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Google Lets You Turn Off Visible Watermarks In Gemini
Google Gemini allows users to disable the visible watermark on AI-generated images, videos, and music, while SynthID and C2PA marks stay embedded.
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Google Search pauses AI-generated images within AI Overviews
Google has paused an experiment within Google Search to create AI-generated images within AI Overviews for recipe results. Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google, replied…
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SMX Now: The target bidding apocalypse and how we’ve been here before
Google’s upcoming changes to Smart Bidding have sparked one of the biggest debates the PPC industry has seen in years. With the rollout scheduled to begin on August 17,…
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Llms.txt V2 Adds Formal Markdown Linking For AI Agents
A v2 update to the llms.txt spec has shipped, adding formal link relations that help AI agents locate Markdown versions of pages.
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Ad Tech Briefing: TV measurement’s competitive reset gathers pace (with more job cuts)
The TV measurement market has compressed several months’ worth of developments into little more than a week, prompting fresh debate over whether the sector is entering…
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How DTC startups are using AI to scale more efficiently
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. During a panel discussion at eTail Boston last week, several founders and executives shared how they are…
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How Unilever detergent brand Persil measures sports sponsorship impact
Brand spending on sports sponsorship is rising, but tracking the impact of those sponsorships is an increasingly heavy burden for the marketers tasked with getting the…
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Marketers embrace AI across workflows, but questions over guardrails and job impacts remain
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Marketers are handing over more of the marketing process to AI tools. Rather than operating within specific rules and guardrails,…
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Sport is marketing’s greatest opportunity — and its greatest activation challenge
Nikolaus Beier, svp of media and marketing services, Sportradar In today’s attention economy, few channels or forms of entertainment capture the imagination quite like…
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Meta’s true AI costs exceed previous accounts
A report from the Wall Street Journal found that the company’s future obligations could amount to nearly $700 billion in unreported expenditures.
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Features include a simplified interface, new voice message gestures and improvements to message drafts.
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A report from Business Insider outlined what the app’s recent source disclosures mean and how to work within the system.
Read on our siteYouTube is changing how it counts views
The platform said that all formats will soon align with Shorts methodology and measure views the moment a video starts playing.
Read on our siteTikTok owner ByteDance signs Motion Picture Association deal
The agreement protects the film and television industry against intellectual property infringement stemming from artificial intelligence-generated content.
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Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.
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AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.
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Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
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Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
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