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Cannes Briefing: Creativity is moving beyond the agency model
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Google has begun rolling out the March core update, according to the Google Search Status Dashboard. The rollout began at 2:00 AM PT, with the release note posted at 2:14 AM PDT. Google said the rollout may take up to two weeks to complete. What’s New The Search Status Dashboard lists the update as an
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Three frenetic days at Shoptalk in Las Vegas revealed tons of anxieties about the future of commerce—from uncertainty around what it will look like (chatbots or seamlessly baked into search?), big questions at companies like Home Depot and Stratacache, and big plays from powerhouses like Google and Meta. Here’s what I learned, based on conversations
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As someone who regularly attends local markets and fairs, I know how difficult it can be to make your craft stall stand out among the crowd. With the Amazon Spring Sale well underway, I’ve found a few deals on products that I think could help level up your small business and make selling a breeze.
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This is Part 2 in a five-part series on optimizing websites for the agentic web. Part 1 covered the evolution from SEO to AAIO and why the shift matters. This article gets practical: how AI systems actually select content, and what you can do about it. AI Doesn’t Rank Pages. It Selects Fragments. Traditional search
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For years, email performance has been measured with a familiar set of metrics: opens, clicks and conversions. But those numbers are becoming less useful — not just because of privacy changes, but because mailbox providers (MBPs) are now judging emails the way users do: based on engagement, trust and intent. That shift is forcing marketers
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Welcome to this week’s PPC Pulse. This week’s updates focus on Performance Max visibility improvements, new budget planning tools in Google Analytics, and generative video now built directly into Google Ads. Here’s what was announced this week and why they matter for your campaigns. Google Adds More Visibility and Control To Performance Max Google rolled
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Financial services and food delivery advertisers are adapting their approach to programmatic sports buys using tech built for betting brands. Genius Sports launched partnerships with DirecTV Advertising, Equativ, FreeWheel, Index Exchange, Magnite, OpenX, PubMatic and The Weather Company at the IAB NewFronts this week, allowing advertisers to use its ‘Moment Engine’ to direct advertising spend
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Francesca Melis’ illustrations are richly detailed. Or, in other words, they’re jam-packed. In her decorative scenes, nature and mythology explode across surreal environments and Francesca calls them “slightly otherworldly”. In one work, Francesca renders the would-be gruesomeness of an exposed brain with a composition of comic-esque boxes that show the inner workings of the character’s
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Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how your headlines appear in Search, how spam enforcement played out, and how AI content gets labeled. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Tests AI-Generated Headline Rewrites In Search Google confirmed that it’s testing AI-generated headline rewrites in traditional search results. The test uses language
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Top of the Ticker: The New York Times reports that Versant, the parent company of MS NOW and CNBC, is one of many suitors interested in acquiring Vox’s podcast division. Acquisition talks are in their early stages, according to the Times, but if Versant succeeds in this purchase, it will fulfill the media company’s focus
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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. In the world of desktop audio, aesthetics rarely seem top priority for manufacturers. A black, brushed-metal finish is common fare for digital-to-analog converters
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Imagine a web where a machine fills out your lead forms, buys your products, and negotiates with your backend. While many SEOs are currently arguing over whether to block AI search bots, whether to call ourselves SEOs or GEOs, or optimizing to get mentioned in ChatGPT, the reality of the web is moving far past
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The AI conversation in marketing has been dominated by two things: which tools to buy and how to write better prompts. Both are real skills. Neither one determines whether a marketing team gets genuine value from AI or just produces polished outputs that nobody trusts. What determines value is context. Specifically, who builds it, who
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The 2026 Disaster Preparedness Calendar for the Taipei City Fire Department transforms safety education into a narrative-driven visual journey. Each month represents a different disaster scenario, woven together through a continuous storyline and a recurring character. Rather than presenting information separately, the project integrates educational content into playful, story-based scenes. A key challenge was balancing
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Wikipedia recently published guidelines prohibiting the use of AI to generate or rewrite articles, except for two exceptions related to editing and translations. The guidelines acknowledges that identifying AI generated content can’t be based on style signals and offers no further guidance on how they will identify the LLM-based content. Violation Of Wikipedia’s Core Content
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The past few weeks have produced one of the more theatrical transparency disputes in programmatic advertising’s history. Three of the big six holding companies have either exited or are auditing The Trade Desk. The dominant independent DSP’s stock is down roughly a third in 2026. And everyone involved is claiming, with varying degrees of conviction,
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“Life’s a game, sometimes it feels like someone else has the controller,” says Laurie Howel, founder of creative company Isle of Any, who (along with fellow co-founder Toby Treyer-Evans) collaborated with Oscar Hudson to create a brand new cinematic advertisement for cryptocurrency exchange app Coinbase. Utilising the aesthetics of low polygon models from old 3D
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Google is expanding Search Live to more than 200 countries and territories, bringing voice and camera conversations to AI Mode globally. The expansion is powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, a new audio model that Google calls its highest-quality yet. It’s inherently multilingual, so you can speak with Search in your preferred language without switching
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