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Last updated: 18 October 2026, 04:30 IST
Search & Digital Marketing
Negative Signals, Positive Intent: PPC Leads Hiding In ‘Cancel’ Searches
Turn competitor complaints and cancellation searches into PPC leads with tailored offers that address customer frustrations and make switching easier.
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Your First 30 Days As A Growth Leader – The Challenge From Day One
Use your first 30 days as a growth leader to identify where B2B buyers lose trust and rethink the channels meant to engage them.
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Google Discover To Undergo Dramatic Changes
Google is planning to reinvent Discover to become an AI Concierge with a tighter integration with YouTube.
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Anthropic’s Thariq Shihipar Recommends Using Artifacts
Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar says Artifacts brings project information and agent activity into one interface, giving users more oversight.
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Google Is Hiring To Generate AI Content For Discover
Open job listings describe teams that generate and recommend AI content for Discover, plus a design lead to turn it into a proactive concierge experience.
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Anthropic Says Claude Bypassed Site Limits During Internal Tests
Anthropic cut live web access for internal evaluations after Claude submitted real forms and worked around website restrictions.
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Snapchat publishes 2026 holiday marketing guide
The overview offers statistics and tips on how marketers can connect with gift givers during the upcoming shopping season.
Read on our siteMeta acquires multiple VR patents from Sony
The two companies transferred 43 U.S. patents related to specific XR applications and displays, according to reporting from Road to VR and ZDNet Korea.
Read on our siteMeta launches advanced Muse Wonder AI models
The new series of artificial intelligence models are able to undertake more complex tasks, though risks remain in regards to privacy, data safety and human error.
Read on our siteMeta offers updated ad placement control guidance
The revised overview provides options for enabling some level of ongoing control as the company continues to automate its ad display systems.
Read on our siteThreads allows parents to see who their teens have blocked
The Meta-owned app has been steadily rolling out supervision tools designed to help protect younger users from harmful activity.
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Ad industry tallies early losses from Apple’s Safari tracking block
The online ad industry has been burned by Apple before, and it’s feeling the heat again. Its latest software update cut off some of the biggest companies that track…
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Welcome to Creator University: Inside the colleges building creator economy programs
Universities are beginning to formalize the creator economy In the past year, Arizona State launched a BA in content creation, Stanford introduced a graduate course…
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‘An important capability for us’: PepsiCo CEO on Publicis switch
At least one CEO wants to talk about advertising. PepsiCo’s Ramon Laguarta used a recent appearance in front of investors to champion the company’s decision to hand its…
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Media Buying Briefing: Synthetic audience adoption by agencies and clients takes off
More media planners, creative strategists and CMOs are basing marketing decisions on insights gleaned from the behavior of synthetic consumers. The latest example comes…
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For some publishers, agentic advertising is still a question of ROI
Many publishers execs say — despite the hype — agentic media buying remains a test-and-learn proposition, rather than a proven source of returns. That caution was clear…
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Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark…
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WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data
A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.
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Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company
Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?
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Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
Microsoft president Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
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This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes
Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts tomorrow: Your final chance to secure up to $100 ticket savings
Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins z— 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for three…
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Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background
One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if…
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Will the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?
Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date.
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