Key Takeaways Google’s AI Mode has surpassed one billion monthly users in its first year, with queries more than doubling every quarter. The new Intelligent Search Box accepts text, images, files, videos, and Chrome tabs as inputs, powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash. Information Agents run 24/7 in the background, monitoring the web on the behalf […]
Your brand could be ranking #1 on Google, but still be invisible to AI. Absent from conversations your customers are having with large language models (LLMs) about your category. Or worse, showing up inaccurately, with outdated or incorrect information that’ll hurt your sales. Without prompt tracking, you’d never know. Prompt tracking (sometimes called LLM visibility […]
Key Takeaways The DELEGATE-52 study from Microsoft Research tested 19 LLMs on document editing tasks across 52 professional domains over 20 editing interactions. Even top frontier LLMs at the time, including Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude 4.6 Opus, and GPT 5.4, corrupted an average of 25 percent of document content by the end of long editing workflows. Average degradation reached 50 percent across all 19 LLMs tested. […]
Key Takeaways Audience-first SEO builds your keyword and content strategy around a specific, high-value audience instead of a broad topic or category. The tactics stay familiar (keyword research, content gap analysis, TAM (total addressable market) analysis), but the organizing principle behind all three changes. Programs using this approach see growth concentrated among the audiences that […]
Nearly 300 French newspapers filed a complaint today with France’s competition authority. They accuse Google of violating a compensation agreement by launching AI-generated search summaries without publishers’ consent. What’s happening. APIG, the Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale, filed the complaint after Google launched AI Overviews (the AI-generated summaries that typically appear above traditional organic […]
Google is testing a new mobile Search ad layout that surfaces the advertisers in a sponsored results block before displaying the ads themselves, potentially giving users more context before they click. If rolled out more broadly, the change could influence how users scan and interact with paid search results. What’s happening. The experiment places a […]
Google has introduced a Campaign Data Import Validation Report, giving advertisers a new way to check the quality of imported campaign data before it impacts reporting. The report is designed to help identify missing or incomplete data from non-Google advertising platforms. What’s happening. The new validation report reviews both non-Google campaign data and previously imported […]
Channels outside of Google and Meta have struggled to get recent headlines in the paid advertising world. But my agency’s performance marketing team has seen one under-the-radar channel — Reddit — introduce a ton of new features and ad types in 2026, making it more viable for our clients. Between new ad types and AI-powered […]
Introduced in 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was designed to solve a specific problem: protecting creators from digital piracy while granting online platforms a “safe harbor” from liability. Under Section 512, search engines and host providers avoid expensive lawsuits as long as they act swiftly to remove content when a copyright holder flags […]
Key Takeaways Franchise SEO is the practice of optimizing your online presence so each franchise location ranks higher in search engine results and AI Overviews. SEO for franchises requires balancing brand consistency across locations with the need for each branch to stand out independently in its local market. Core tactics include targeting local keywords, creating […]
