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Last updated: 30 July 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Why you should opt out of Google Search Partners
Watch this video on YouTube If you’re running Google Ads in 2026, you’ve probably heard of “Search Partners.” It’s often checked by default in your…
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Why most original data never gets cited
Part 1 tackled those all-important third-party citation signals , while Part 2 made the case for publishing original data : It is the strongest…
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5 questions to ask AI vendors before buying a tool
There are many ways to use AI in marketing, and it feels like for every smart initiative, 10 AI vendors have cropped up with a tool to address it. At…
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5 Ways To Make Your Marketing Channels Work Together
Turn disconnected marketing channels into a coordinated growth strategy with practical advice on attribution, AI, and measurement.
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How to make your SEO strategy more commercially aware
The SEO industry has become extraordinarily good at improving its technical craft, making strides in crawl architecture, Core Web Vitals, content…
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How to build an AI-powered content gap analysis workflow
You can publish consistently, follow SEO best practices, and still watch competitors outrank you. More often than not, the problem isn’t content…
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Reclaiming Brand Sovereignty In The AI Era
Stop publishing more content. Start organizing knowledge into a machine-readable layer every AI, protocol, and interface can consume.
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The future of performance marketing isn’t more vendors. It’s making your stack work harder. by Rokt mParticle
Performance marketing is under more pressure than it’s been in a decade — budgets are flat or reduced, expectations are rising,, and AI is raising…
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An Easy Digital PR Strategy For AI SEO
Marketing a brand online for AI Search can be easier than you think. Here's a strategy to get you started.
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You Can’t See How AI Ranks You, So Build What It Can Read
Open AI Overview rankings won't change the work. What a machine can read, parse, and verify on your site is what matters now.
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AI Search: Is Your Content Strategy Accidentally Recommending Your Competitors?
Explore why listicles may recommend your competitors instead of your product, revealing new tactics in AI search strategy.
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SEO Study: 5 Lessons From Running AI Agents Across Every Search
Last year, 2.5% of Writesonic’s leads came from AI search. As of March, 35% do. Samanyou Garg, Founder and CEO of Writesonic, showed the system…
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Google adds AI-powered Video Remix option
The option, available in Google Photo, allows users to generate stylized, realistic elements using the company’s Gemini Omni artificial intelligence…
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Advertising’s confidence problem, according to the man who used to price its stocks
At an IAB Europe forecast panel yesterday (July 7), Ian Whittaker — a former City equity analyst who now runs Liberty Sky Advisors — dropped the kind…
Read on our siteCriteo is subject to a takeover bid, further proving private equity’s continued interest in ad tech
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How Bandit Running is expanding internationally while staying hyperlocal
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Glossy . Despite competition from some of the biggest companies in the world, including Nike and…
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What’s really driving Europe’s €131 billion ad boom
Another forecast, another reminder that ad spend is running its own race, economy be damned. This time it’s IAB Europe’s latest AdEx Benchmark…
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Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents
Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.
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These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates
There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.
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Your gaming data could be the secret to AGI, according to this Bezos-backed startup
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude…
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Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.
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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
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Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities.
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