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Last updated: 30 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
YouTube Views Rose While Long-Form Ad Revenue Fell, Data Shows
Metricool data shows views per long-form YouTube post increased while estimated ad revenue and average view duration fell.
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Google’s Illyes Unsure On Shifting unavailable_after Dates
Google's Gary Illyes said he would need to check whether pushing an unavailable_after date forward on every renewal causes problems. He gave a first read.
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AI Recognizes 96% Of Brands But Mentions Almost None, New Study Finds
Find out how AI accurately describes brands but struggles with visibility. Explore Victorious' findings in this insightful report.
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Google On SEO Impact Of URLs Injected By CMS Platforms
Google's John Mueller explains the SEO impact of random URLs injected into web pages by CMS platforms.
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AI Opt-Out May Cost Sites A Google Top Stories Spot
Google is putting Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews, raising the stakes on its new AI opt-out setting in Search Console.
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SMX Advanced expands in 2027: See you in San Diego and Boston
It’s official: There will be two SMX Advanced events in 2027. The shows are scheduled for March 17 to 19 in San Diego and Sept. 20 to 22 in Boston. This is the first…
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The Future Of Search & AI: What I Learned From Google’s Latest Earnings Call
Is Google still a search engine? Its Q2 2026 earnings call suggests the answer is changing, and website owners should plan accordingly.
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Google Search Results Still Rank Heavily AI-Flagged Pages
Data ties higher AI detector scores to lower positions and to fewer pages in Google's index, though heavily flagged pages still rank in top 10.
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Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web
Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site's anti-bot defense…
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Google rolls out AI content labels in asset studio
Google is rolling out AI content labels within asset studio, giving advertisers a new way to disclose when image and video assets have been generated or modified using…
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Google Ads appears to separate Target CPA and Target ROAS bidding strategies
Google appears to be changing how Smart Bidding strategies are presented during campaign setup, surfacing Target CPA and Target ROAS as standalone bidding strategies…
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Why Data Integrity Is The New Technical SEO: From Crawling To Trust
Agentic protocols are multiplying with no consensus standard in sight. Own the layers underneath instead of chasing a winner.
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Amazon Left US Google Shopping A Year Ago & Never Came Back
Amazon pulled out of U.S. Google Shopping in July 2025 and still hasn't returned. Here's what a year of auction data reveals for retailers.
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Kia takes a Reddit staple for a spin during WNBA All-Star Weekend
The brand’s AMA featured a claw machine of preselected questions answered live on video and generated 61,000 views in 72 hours.
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Future of TV Briefing: FreeWheel adds show-level reporting to tackle streaming’s transparency problem
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at Comcast-owned FreeWheel enabling streaming ad sellers to directly show-level reporting to programmatic ad buyers. Showtime…
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Omnicom CEO: ‘The marketplace hasn’t seen what the cost of this AI is’
Omnicom CEO John Wren just said the quiet part out loud: nobody’s actually priced AI yet. The admission came on the holdco’s Q2 earnings call yesterday, in response to…
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‘They haven’t been given the receipts’: Why one brand is auditing its DSPs for greater transparency
Buoyed by the shift of sports programming to streaming, ad spend on digital video continues to climb, but that growth comes with greater scrutiny around transparency and…
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Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
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Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
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MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea
Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.
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Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."
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Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid
The decision arrives as the breakneck pace of data center construction has grid operators scrambling to generate power.
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Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring…
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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon
Recursive’s emphasis on self-improving AI systems means much of the budget that would traditionally go toward headcount and operations is put straight into compute, as…
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