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AI Search Only Feels New If Your SEO Was Shallow via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic
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AI Search Only Feels New If Your SEO Was Shallow
Two different races, almost the same training. Why arguing over GEO, AEO, or SEO is easier than admitting you skipped the fundamentals.
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Google Ads adds dedicated reporting for new customer acquisition
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Google Ads adds dedicated reporting for new customer acquisition
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Google Ads adds dedicated reporting for new customer acquisition
Google now lets advertisers measure new customer acquisition without affecting bidding, replacing a reporting workaround.
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YouTube tests image ads during horizontal mobile playback
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YouTube tests image ads during horizontal mobile playback
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YouTube tests image ads during horizontal mobile playback
YouTube is overlaying static image ads during landscape mobile videos, potentially giving advertisers a new placement.
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Meta faces $567 million abatement order over teen harm in New Mexico
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Meta faces $567 million abatement order over teen harm in New Mexico
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Meta faces $567 million abatement order over teen harm in New Mexico
Under-18 accounts get a 90-hour monthly ceiling across Facebook and Instagram, plus notification blackouts. Judge Biedscheid refused every algorithm remedy.
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Prebid.js gains DevTools MCP module letting AI agents read live auctions
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Prebid.js gains DevTools MCP module letting AI agents read live auctions
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Prebid.js gains DevTools MCP module letting AI agents read live auctions
Merged after 19 commits and 109 passing checks, the module lets publishers query header bidding state from Chrome. Still experimental, still behind a flag.
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IAS blocks 800 Papyrus domains faking $1 million a month in ad traffic
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IAS blocks 800 Papyrus domains faking $1 million a month in ad traffic
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IAS blocks 800 Papyrus domains faking $1 million a month in ad traffic
Novel-reading apps hid browser windows that clicked and scrolled on their own, lifting eCPM roughly 4x and attention scores 13%. Optimization data now suspect.
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Meta Tests Sequenced Events and Preferred Lead Answers for Lead Quality
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Meta Tests Sequenced Events and Preferred Lead Answers for Lead Quality
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Meta Tests Sequenced Events and Preferred Lead Answers for Lead Quality
Meta is testing Sequenced Events and Preferred Lead Answers to help advertisers improve lead quality from instant forms.
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Amazon.de gains PayPal installments up to €10,000 at 11.49% APR
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Amazon.de gains PayPal installments up to €10,000 at 11.49% APR
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Amazon.de gains PayPal installments up to €10,000 at 11.49% APR
Terms run 3 to 48 months, with 36 and 48 exclusive to Amazon buyers, and more than 40 million PayPal accounts qualify. Does checkout data follow the credit?
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What did the first week of August change in digital advertising?
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What did the first week of August change in digital advertising?
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What did the first week of August change in digital advertising?
A $2.15 billion acquisition, a brutal earnings split, fresh lawsuits and forced automation reshaped digital advertising between August 3 and August 8, 2026.
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Google faces bipartisan brief urging tougher remedy over 21% AI model share
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Google faces bipartisan brief urging tougher remedy over 21% AI model share
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Google faces bipartisan brief urging tougher remedy over 21% AI model share
Filed August 4 in the D.C. Circuit, a 34-page brief says three firms hold 88% of AI model API revenue. At stake is whether Mehta's remedy survives the appeal.
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Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak
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Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak
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Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak
Monthly peak hit 207,204 in March 2014. The whole of 2025 produced 108,981 questions, under one peak month. What now happens to the corpus that trained AI?
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PatronView blocks Amazon's AI crawler after 117,000 daily page reads
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PatronView blocks Amazon's AI crawler after 117,000 daily page reads
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PatronView blocks Amazon's AI crawler after 117,000 daily page reads
Anthropic's crawler hit a 35,000 to 1 crawl ratio, and CAPTCHA solve rates measured just 0.24%. The findings show why small operators are locking down servers.
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AI’s Impact Is Outrunning Measurement: The Trust And Attribution Gap Facing Brands via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
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AI’s Impact Is Outrunning Measurement: The Trust And Attribution Gap Facing Brands via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
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AI’s Impact Is Outrunning Measurement: The Trust And Attribution Gap Facing Brands
Kevin Indig's AI Halftime Report found 91% of AI citations appear on just one platform, so single-engine rank tracking leaves H2 2026 strategy blind.
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Peacock ad revenue per subscriber rises 43% to $4.98 a month
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Peacock ad revenue per subscriber rises 43% to $4.98 a month
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Peacock ad revenue per subscriber rises 43% to $4.98 a month
Advertising reached 37.8% of the service's $1,895M revenue line and costs climbed 28% to $1,706M. Media earnings outside Peacock fell 34%. Can it hold in Q3?
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Shopify GA4 tracking gains 4 events August 17 - only purchase is server-side
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Shopify GA4 tracking gains 4 events August 17 - only purchase is server-side
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Shopify GA4 tracking gains 4 events August 17 - only purchase is server-side
Merchants get view_item_list, remove_from_cart, view_cart and add_shipping_info three years after GA4 migration. Do ad blockers still break the session thread?
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PropellerAds says NIKO campaigns gain 2-4x revenue over manual setup
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PropellerAds says NIKO campaigns gain 2-4x revenue over manual setup
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PropellerAds says NIKO campaigns gain 2-4x revenue over manual setup
Internal tests also place first campaign drafts 11 times faster across push, popunder and Telegram formats. No independent verification has been published.
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Chavez says enterprise data cannot be removed from an LLM once trained
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Chavez says enterprise data cannot be removed from an LLM once trained
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Chavez says enterprise data cannot be removed from an LLM once trained
Two decades after publishers handed inventory to Google, a super{set} co-founder says the same bargain now faces firms. Can a company audit what a model kept?
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KPMG finds 49% cut AI agent rollouts when costs outran value
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KPMG finds 49% cut AI agent rollouts when costs outran value
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KPMG finds 49% cut AI agent rollouts when costs outran value
Established ROI sits at 7% while planned AI spending holds at $188m across the 2,145 leaders surveyed. Cost visibility now separates the firms seeing returns.