Slobodan Manic says AI is no longer waiting for us to come to it. It's coming to us. And websites are nowhere near ready.

Audioboom reports Q1 2026 revenue of $22.5M, up 30% year-on-year, as Showcase marketplace and video partnerships with Spotify and Apple drive record distribution.

The old model pushed outward from the brand. The new one was built inward from culture and that changes a lot.

Gen Z workers surveyed by Gallup said they would trust work done without AI over AI-assisted output by more than 2-to-1, with the gap widening.

Gemini-powered tools vastly improved our ability to stop deceptive ads, and we’re continuing to evolve to stay ahead of bad actors.

See the controls you have available to you with Google Ads brand guidelines to keep your automated campaigns generating on-brand assets.

Google Maps today uses Gemini to block fake place edits and stops review extortion scams pre-publication. Google removed 292M policy-violating reviews in 2025.

HubSpot today launched its Answer Engine Optimization tool to help marketers track brand visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, priced at $50/month.

Grocery TV and ABCS Insights launch third-party in-store sales lift measurement, using a 41 million-household panel combining receipt and card transaction data.

Intentsify reports 20% YOY revenue growth in Q1 2026, launches 700+ pre-built B2B audience segments in The Trade Desk and DV360, and expands to 90+ countries.

HuffPost UK selects Taboola's DeeperDive, a GenAI answer engine embedded directly on-site, to claw back readers and ad revenue lost to AI search platforms.

Yelp and Morning Consult surveyed 2,202 U.S. adults and found only 15% trust AI search platforms "a lot," with 51% describing results as a "walled garden."

New Ahrefs data shows Reddit pages appeared often in ChatGPT retrievals but rarely as visible citations.

Mediavine and Index Exchange today launched curated audiences in Index Marketplaces, making publisher first-party data and UID2 segments live via curated deals.

This week’s Meta Advertiser Field Notes covers one-click Conversions API, pixel updates, expanded audience labels, and more.

Google Chrome now has a new side-by-side mode, search across tabs, and multi-input tools.

Heading alignment and narrow answers drive citations, while long, broad content underperforms, study finds.

Criteo's Commerce Audiences pair with TripleLift's curation layer to deliver SKU-level purchase signals across web, mobile, and CTV with Deal ID activation.

An independent audit of 7,000+ California websites found Google, Meta and Microsoft setting ad cookies despite opt-out signals, with $5.8B in potential fines.

Microsoft is making it easier to expand Google PMax campaigns into Microsoft while gaining more visibility and control over performance.