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Cannes Briefing: Creativity is moving beyond the agency model
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Google Business Profile owners are seeing a message in their review dashboards that reads “You have no reviews yet,” even when their public listings still show hundreds of reviews. Complaint threads began to rise in the Google Business Profile Community forum on July 9, as people reported that the reply panel shows zero reviews, while the
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Top of the Ticker: As Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery proceeds into extra time (to borrow a soccer phrase), staffers at CNN are reportedly approaching their potential new owners with extreme apprehension. This week, two features addressed the trepidation many CNNers are feeling, with Variety’s Brian Steinberg reporting that incoming executives from the
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AI visibility tracking data isn’t entirely reliable. Because generative models often produce different responses, the citation shares and rankings on your dashboard are merely snapshots of a continuously changing target, not fixed facts. A difference between you and a competitor could be genuine or just fluctuation between measurements. A new IQRush paper due for release
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Ninety percent of CX organizations are now piloting or deploying AI, according to Five9’s “2026 Business Leaders CX Report.” Overall, the report found that organizations are largely aligned on adopting AI, but sharply divided on governance, deployment strategies, and how to use it in customer service without creating new complexity or eroding customer trust. AI
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Leo and Felipe let us in on what they are getting up to in their time off – from finding the best food spots in Rio to summer music festivals and the films on their watch list!
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WordPress released a minor maintenance release, version 7.0.1, that addresses 31 bugs, including one that improves PHP 8.5 compatibility and another that fixes a security-related function. What is not found in this release: No security fixes. No new developer-facing APIs. No improvements to website performance. No changes to how WordPress works. Nothing of high importance
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Marvel has its Avengers movies. Advertising has mediapalooza. Every few years the biggest media budgets get thrown into review, agencies scramble to hold their accounts, and the trade press reaches for the same nickname. And every time, the industry convinces itself this cycle will be the one that actually changes things. It never quite does.
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Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. The MM-500 headphone is the result of years of back and forth between 18-time Grammy-award-winning engineer Manny Marroquin and Californian audio company Audeze.
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Google’s guide now sets expectations for how long clustered pages take to re-evaluate after a content fix. Pages generally leave a duplicate cluster faster when the content difference between them is clear. Request Indexing can ask Google to re-evaluate clustered pages, though Google advises saving it for your most important URLs. Google updated its canonicalization
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While AI can provide endless answers, Anthropic wants people to keep asking questions about it—specifically, its impact on humans. The AI company has launched a new film, “Hard Questions,” created by Mother and directed by Myles McAuliffe. The work is the latest in Anthropic’s Keep Thinking campaign, which launched in September 2025 and aims to
Read MoreLaunched in 2015, Gangnam Unni has become an essential information platform that helps customers make informed decisions by addressing the information imbalance in the aesthetic medical market. Leveraging Korea’s overwhelming achievements in aesthetic medical technology and services, it has rapidly grown in Japan and is expanding to more countries, including Thailand and the United States,
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Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates change what you can measure in Search Console, how you describe products in markup, and what John Mueller thinks about building for AI agents. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Search Console Adds Reports For Social And Video Posts Google is rolling out a new Search Console
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With vibe coding growing in popularity, enterprise organizations need standards and workflows to scale it sustainably. Prompt logs are an essential part of that foundation. They document how AI-generated code came together, making audits, maintenance, and knowledge transfer much easier. Vibe coding uses natural language prompts to generate code. Maintaining a prompt log lets you
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The images frame moments of pain, intensity and concentration that often go unseen – a runner squatting mid-trail to catch some air, a climber untaping their hands to nurse chalk covered calluses and sores. They purposefully dwell on the mundane, passing moments that are considered “visually unspectacular” in sports, says Janosch. But in deciding to turn
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This month’s Ask A PPC tackles a very real concern: Search term visibility keeps shrinking on some platforms while other platforms continue to maintain more transparency. Advertisers still need to understand, diagnose, and optimize campaigns even when they do not have full search term signals. “With search terms increasingly unavailable, what technical signals should advertisers
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While The Home Depot is not a sports equipment or sports apparel retailer, its consumer base has given it ample reason to develop a comprehensive retail media strategy around the World Cup. Customers often come to The Home Depot and other home improvement retailers to solve a problem or take on a project — especially
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Global creative studio Koto has launched CcType, a brand new type foundry built for the contemporary design world. Leveraging years of experience designing bespoke type systems for iconic brands, Koto’s latest venture is defined by versatility and high craft – a response to the ever-evolving demands of modern branding. Koto isn’t new to the game,
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Google made a major change to their Merchant Listing structured data requirements in addition to adding clarification on how to use structured data to indicate how long a sale prices will last. In total, there are three new additions but the biggest change by far is the addition of a new Category property. While it’s
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CBS Mornings was the only morning show to see growth in total viewers and in the Adults 25-54 demo during the week leading up to America’s 250th Independence Day. CBS Mornings was joined in the growth territory by ABC News’ Good Morning America, which finished in the plus column in the advertiser-coveted demo. Meanwhile, GMA
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