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Last updated: 28 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
The AI hours nobody on your marketing team is counting
Your marketing team has never spent more hours working in, on, and with AI. I (Kevin) think every marketer, especially every SEO, has this backlog of tools or shortcuts…
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The AI Citation Mistake: Optimizing For Google, Not For Sources
Page-one rankings don't earn AI citations. Learn which sources ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini trust in your industry, and how to get published by them.
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AI Visibility For Local Businesses: How To Get Recommended By ChatGPT & AI Overviews In 90 Days
Explore the significance of AI visibility for local businesses. Learn what makes some businesses stand out in AI searches.
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Google Ads Introduces Local Customer Optimization
Google Ads brings Local Customer Optimization to Performance Max and easier Store Sales measurement to help retailers drive and measure in-store purchases.
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Google Rolls Out Redesigned Search Results Across The EEA
Google rolled out redesigned Search results in the EEA, reworking aggregator units and adding supplier units for hotel, flight, transport, and product queries.
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UK Site Loses 98% Of News Search Visibility After .com Move
A UK news site's trending-query visibility collapsed after moving from .co.uk to .com, and the new domain didn't pick up what the old one lost.
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Google Says Old Low-Value Pages May Affect Site Recovery
John Mueller says Google's systems may still judge a site by its old low-value programmatic pages, and that showing value again takes time and effort.
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SMX Now: Find the entity gaps holding back your content strategy
Your schema tells search engines what your brand is. But that doesn’t mean Google’s systems understand it the same way. That gap can reveal where your content strategy…
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Google Ads AI Dashboards start appearing in advertiser accounts
Google Ads’ new AI-powered Dashboards are rolling out to some accounts, letting advertisers create visual performance reports with simple text prompts. Driving the news…
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Microsoft Advertising removes Max CPC from new standalone bidding campaigns
Microsoft Advertising will stop allowing advertisers to set Max CPC limits on new campaigns using several standalone automated bidding strategies starting Oct. 1, as the…
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InMotion Cloud Debuts Fixed-Price Managed Cloud
InMotion Cloud launches a fixed-price Managed Private Cloud built on bare metal, with predictable monthly rates, fixed egress, and U.S.-based support.
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How 11 retail media networks are trying to differentiate themselves to advertisers
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . After the launch of many different retail media networks over the past few years, all these new…
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Future of TV Briefing: Where have all the cord-cutters gone?
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at recent data indicating that people may be getting rid of their cable boxes but they’re not exactly getting rid of cable TV.…
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WTF is a ghost creator?
Forget AI-generated creators. There’s an army of people making content based solely on briefs. These “ghost creators,” or creators-as-a-service, are suddenly under the…
Read on our sitePinterest renames campaign objectives to simplify ad focus
The updated terminology aims to clarify the purpose of each campaign type.
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Will removing algorithmic sorting improve social media?
A move by Australia’s government to switch feeds to chronological defaults may prove to be a trial balloon for other markets to gauge impact and effectiveness.
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ShopMy, Google and WordPress VIP are among this year’s Digiday Technology Awards finalists
This year’s Digiday Technology Awards finalists reflect an industry adapting to a rapidly changing digital landscape, with AI-ready infrastructure, first-party data,…
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ShopMy, Google and WordPress are among this year’s Digiday Technology Awards finalists
This year’s Digiday Technology Awards finalists reflect an industry adapting to a rapidly changing digital landscape, with AI-ready infrastructure, first-party data,…
Read on our siteAustralia moves to enable algorithm opt-outs
New regulations will require social platforms to allow users to set chronological feeds as the default.
Read on our siteYouTube expands Watch With to more creators
The livestreaming commentary feature allows for real-time reactions to broadcasts, with viewers able to see the combined videos from any device.
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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers
Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.
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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market
Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.
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Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?
Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major…
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OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
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