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Last updated: 19 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Q3 AI Visibility: AI Citations, Brand Mentions & Content Refreshes That Work
Five articles explain why AI citations fluctuate, where they come from, what makes them persist, and how to audit content for stronger AI visibility.
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89% Of AI Search Demand Has No Clear Owner: Use This Before The Window Closes
Kevin Indig's data across 1,094 categories shows that only 15.2% have a clear ChatGPT owner, and citations barely predict which brand gets named.
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AI halftime report: H1 2026
Every six months, I take a sharp look at the latest developments in AI and Search. Based on how quickly things are developing, I would almost need to increase that…
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European Search Strategy Goes Beyond Google & Bing
Treat Europe as one Google market, and you'll miss Seznam, Ecosia, Zalando, and a regulatory layer that can close a door overnight.
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Google Opens Search Console Social Reporting To Everyone
Search Console platform properties are now open to everyone worldwide, and Google has published a guide to reading your social and video search data.
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How SEO scope creep happens and 7 ways to prevent it
Scope creep doesn’t show up as just one bad conversation. Instead, it creeps in through a dozen small ones. Each unbilled request is easy to say yes to — until a…
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Google Ads Bidding Strategies: Where To Spend Your Time In 2026
Lead-gen and ecommerce managers: two Google Ads bidding changes landed this summer. Here's what shifts, what doesn't, and which campaigns to audit first.
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Ghost citations: Why AI search cites your content, not your brand
Across roughly 16 million brand appearances, new data from Writesonic found that around 40% of AI citations didn’t name the source brand in the generated answer. On…
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Google Search Console Platform properties are now globally live
Google has now rolled out the Platform properties feature globally to all Google Search Console accounts. This feature lets you track the performance of your social…
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How to scale SEO content updates with Claude Code
SEO teams spend plenty of time creating new pages while existing pages quietly lose rankings, clicks, and revenue. Updating those pages can recover performance, but…
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Inside Unilever’s 300,000 creator network: the logistics behind the headline number
By now, the Unilever creator story is a familiar one. Last year, the conglomerate announced plans to center creators in its marketing , and has since built an army of…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT reaches the coupon stage of building an ad business
OpenAI just hit the coupon phase of building an ads business. It’s the stage every platform before it has run through, whereby they hand advertisers credits to get them…
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Media Briefing: Threatening to quit Google’s crawlers is just publishers’ new hope
This week’s Media Briefing looks at why publishers are flirting with the idea of breaking up with Google — and what’s stopping many from finally walking away. Why most…
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Time has begun serving ads to AI bots. Ally Bank and Project Management Institute are among the first buyers. Strange as that sounds, it’s also logical. To understand…
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Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
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Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years
As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.
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Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its…
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Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents
On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and…
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Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
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Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.
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The Hugging Face break-in explained
Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)
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Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.
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Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents,…
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Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
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