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Last updated: 19 August 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
The data-backed case for publishing less content
Quality over quantity is a familiar saying, but it’s not always an easy sell to executives and decision-makers who still believe publishing more content leads to better…
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The 4-step health check for your target ROAS and CPA
Target ROAS and CPA aren’t optimization settings. They’re business decisions. Many accounts inherit a target from a previous agency, finance team, or account manager…
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Designing A Measurement Framework Before You Touch GA4
Transform your Google Analytics 4 data into actionable insights with a solid measurement framework as your foundation.
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Your DAM solved the library problem. The activation problem is next. by ImageKit
Your DAM is working. Assets are centralized. Metadata is applied. Roles and permissions are in place. By every standard measure of a digital asset management (DAM)…
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AI Overviews Now Answer Most Local Searches – How To Get Your Business Cited
AI Overviews are outpacing local packs across 15+ markets. Here is what location pages need to stay visible in AI-generated answers.
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Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Watch A Video And Learn Your Job
Anthropic's Claude Cowork can turn a video of a person doing a task into a skill so that it can do it too.
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Court Dismisses Google’s DMCA Claims Against SerpApi
A federal court dismissed Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi, ruling that blocking scrapers from public search results is not copyright circumvention on its own.
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Social insights fail to reach decision-makers: Here’s what the numbers say
Just 14% of social media professionals feel their organization is able to use social data properly.
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Looking to build an organic brand presence on Reddit? Follow these key steps.
Read on our siteSocial media is becoming less social
A new report suggests that people are feeling pressured to post online and have reduced their app activity as a result.
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The upfront market is nearly done, as sports acts as both negotiation driver and obstacle
The upfront marketplace, long in the making this year, is nearing completion, as the major holding companies and larger independent agencies wrap their negotiations with…
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Future of TV Briefing: The streaming ad industry finally has levers to pull on quality
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how the IAB’s Redefining Media Types Standard could address the streaming ad market’s call for quality controls. Quality check…
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Albertsons’ new ‘micro sitcom’ is a big deal for retail media
This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Retail media content is becoming more complex, with major brands making big investments in videos made…
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How Bloom Nutrition is expanding internationally
This podcast was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify For many U.S. retail startups, expanding international distribution…
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Mastercard is tapping foodie creators to drive awareness and adoption
Mastercard recently rolled out an episodic social series focused on foodie creators visiting restaurants to help create buzz and grow their small business. It’s yet…
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Fears of Big Tech bias underpin debates around W3C’s Attribution API
In a relatively obscure industry standards body, the World Wide Web Consortium, Big Tech players, including Apple, Google, Meta, and Mozilla, are making inroads to…
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Why agencies are taking a hybrid approach to synthetic audience research
Traditional research can be slow, expensive and hard to scale but agencies are increasingly testing AI-generated personas to supplement things like media planning and…
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Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US
Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners.
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Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
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Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide…
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The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
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Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
At last, a tech company has found a way to outsource humanity's oldest pastime: using our imaginations.
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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
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