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Last updated: 30 September 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Google updates Merchant Center with cross-platform reporting
Google is updating Merchant Center performance reporting to align metrics more closely with Google Ads and YouTube, giving merchants a more consistent view of how…
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Google to migrate Travel campaigns to Search campaigns for Travel
Google will begin migrating Travel campaigns to Search campaigns for Travel starting in Q3 2026, automatically moving advertisers to the new campaign type while…
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OpenAI Allows Some Health & Finance Ads In ChatGPT
OpenAI's ad rules now allow some health and finance advertisers in ChatGPT, while placement restrictions still apply to sensitive conversations.
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Query templates: Expanding the scope of topical authority
Topical authority isn’t built by covering a topic alone. It also depends on how well your content covers the different ways people search for that topic. Query templates…
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Cloudflare Gives AI Agents Wallets That Pay For What They Access
Cloudflare announced wallets and optional identity handles for AI agents on August 4, extending paid access past crawlers to any caller and any resource.
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How to use MCP to get more data from the tools you already use
Model Context Protocol (MCP) makes it easier to work with the data already sitting inside your SEO and marketing tools. Instead of digging through reports, exporting…
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The new search journey changes how SEO and PPC should work
SEO and PPC have traditionally been managed as two channels that share a results page. The coordination questions were about overlap: Should paid bid on terms the site…
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Community signals are AI’s largest third-party source
Across a sample of 35,000 ChatGPT citations, user-generated content (UGC) platforms hold more of the cited-domain share for SaaS-related prompts than review sites and…
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Google Is Ending Target Overperformance – What to Fix Before August 17
Google Smart Bidding changes August 17. Learn which Target CPA and Target ROAS campaigns to audit and what to update before the deadline.
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Automattic Fires Back At WP Engine’s Motion For Sanctions
Automattic rebuts WP Engine, says Matt Mullenweg's "personal communications with romantic partners" has "nothing to do with this case."
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Anthropic adds AI text watermarking to Claude models worldwide
Anthropic said it will begin embedding machine-readable watermarks into text generated by new Claude AI models worldwide. This fulfills commitments the company made…
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Meta expands access to Creator Studio
IOS users in the U.S. and Canada can now access the artificial intelligence-driven app to help manage content and get audience insights.
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Future of TV Briefing: In TV ad market’s swing to streaming, cheap inventory is in demand
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how TV and streaming companies’ advertising businesses fared in the second quarter of 2026. Quarterly report Streaming’s…
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Lifestyle brand Stanley 1913 adapts its marketing for the AI search era
Adapting to AI search is a muscle memory problem, not a hacking problem — at least that’s how Stanley 1913 sees it. The brand could chase quick wins the way some…
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Walmart finally lets advertisers exclude certain search terms
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . Walmart’s advertising platform is giving brands more control on where they show up in searches, marking…
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Build or buy: Inside indie agency Mod Op’s AI infrastructure
Mod Op says it dodged a $3 million AI bill. Sort of. The independent marketing agency estimates it avoided roughly $3 million in potential licensing costs by building…
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Meta’s lack of consumer trust could derail its AI plans
Owner Mark Zuckerberg’s latest manifesto outlined his vision of an artificial intelligence-enabled future, but the company first needs to restore its reputation.
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The platform said users begin to make holiday plans early and many look for discussions in the app before booking.
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How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures
Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal cases.
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Why Sandbar thinks it’s voice-enabled ring can avoid the AI hardware graveyard
AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to…
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Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features
From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.
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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year
Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.
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Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last
The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux
OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.
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