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Cannes Briefing: Creativity is moving beyond the agency model
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This story was originally published in On Background with Mark Stenberg, a free, weekly newsletter that explores the key themes shaping the media industry. You can sign up for it here. Late last year, Netflix signed a series of deals that effectively served as the starting gun for an industrywide race for podcasting talent. In October,
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Pokémon Champions may have just dropped on the Switch, but in honour of today’s Trading Cards for Grown-ups Day (yes, that’s a thing), I’m taking a moment to appreciate the more analogue side of the fandom. Whether you’re a trading card fanatic or simply just looking for some Pokémon goodies to expand your collection, there
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Google’s March core update has finished rolling out, according to the Google Search Status Dashboard. The dashboard updated at 6:12 AM PDT on April 8 with the completion note: “The rollout was complete as of April 8, 2026.” The update began on March 27 at 2:00 AM PT, making the total rollout 12 days. That’s
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Marketers who put their inbound strategy on the shelf in the past year can now put their Inbound conference mugs and SWAG alongside it. HubSpot renamed its annual Inbound conference, which takes place in September in Boston, to Unbound. A note on the event’s site explains the company’s thinking: “This evolution is our response to
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A current carried across seventy-five years—one shared spirit, unfolding through twelve moments in time. Relay of Light, the 2022 calendar for Taiwan Power Company, begins with an archive—yet does not remain within it. Instead, it drifts, reassembles, and reimagines. Fragments of history are translated into a visual language where time is no longer linear, but
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Google’s John Mueller answered a question about duplicate URLs appearing after a site structure change. His response offers clarity about how Google handles duplicate content and what actually influences indexing and ranking decisions. Concern About Duplicate URLs And Ranking Impact A site owner had changed the URL structure of their web pages then later discovered
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This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the rare practice of YouTube channels offering TV-style make-goods to sponsors as TV-style shows become more commonplace. Recently I was talking with Donut Media’s head of brand partnerships Amanda Klein. The Recurrent-owned media company’s YouTube videos are receiving about 45% of their viewership on TV screens. Coinciding
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There are a couple of things that could be happening here, without getting too personal or knowing your scenario. First, let’s just acknowledge you’ve gone through a massive gear shift. Getting into an industry after graduating is such a huge new chapter, both mentally and physically, and you’ve only been in the field for a
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI models could break widely used software and that prices for black-market zero-day exploits may be falling. The comments came during a conversation on the Cheeky Pint podcast with Stripe CEO Patrick Collison. What Pichai Said The discussion touched on constraints facing AI infrastructure buildout when Pichai turned to security
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If the biggest surprise awaiting America’s first-time parents isn’t caring for an infant, it’s paying for one: Bringing a newborn into the house runs just shy of $19,000. It’s little wonder, then, that the hallowed institution of the bridal registry has expanded into a wish list to help parents acquire essentials ranging from formula to
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We’re celebrating the 40th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda, so when series producer Eiji Aonuma politely sidesteps a question, as he did recently in an interview with YouTuber Andres Restart, you kind of learn to read between the lines a bit, and his latest non-answer about a possible The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of
Read MoreTL; DR: AI visibility is not a content volume game; it is a credibility game. Brands are not becoming the obvious answer because they publish more, but because they make their expertise clear, consistent, structured, and easy to trust across owned and earned media. That means building strong source-of-truth content on your site, earning third-party
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Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! AI Mode is compressing the stage where buyers compare, reject, and discover brands on their own. Our new usability study of 185 documented purchase tasks shows that 74% of AI Mode final shortlists came directly from the AI’s output – no external check,
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AI content is not hurting your search rankings, but it is not giving you an automatic edge either. That is the central takeaway from Semrush’s “Does AI content rank well in search?” study, which examines how AI content performs across a wide range of real-world search results. The findings challenge both extremes of the debate,
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Erosion Basins Shallow coastal formations can develop where soft sedimentary rock is continuously shaped by tides, currents, and wind. Over time, these forces carve the surface into rounded depressions, forming a dynamic landscape that is constantly evolving. As the tide recedes, water remains trapped in these natural hollows, creating isolated pools of varying size and
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A search marketing professional from India wrote a blog post about how she feels about seeing the word guru used within the SEO community in a way that’s different from its meaning in India. Several people, including Google’s John Mueller, agreed with her and shared how they felt when people self-identify as SEO gurus. The
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When Mondelez learned their retail partners were expecting 30% of their site traffic to be agentic by 2028, the company stopped and paid attention. AI was upending the way people searched for products online, and the CPG brand was faced with a decision to make: overhaul its digital presence or risk falling behind in the
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The subjects of these comics have come from a series of quite random imaginings the artist had on everyday walks outdoors. Liang’s most recent zine, The North Downs Way, was a narrative shaped by her first time seeing chalk cliffs on a walk along the picturesque trail with friends. “I transformed the memories and observations
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A new Ipsos survey adds consumer sentiment data to the growing debate over ads in AI search. Most US adults say ads in AI search results would reduce their trust in those results. Early advertiser data from ChatGPT’s ad pilot offers limited context. An Ipsos survey of U.S. adults found 63% say ads in
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Below are the cable news ratings for the first quarter of 2026. Conflict was the theme of the first quarter of the year. January and March started off with U.S. military action in Venezuela and Iran, respectively. This and other storylines, which focused on ICE enforcement, the economy, and the long TSA lines, led the
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