Shopify merchants: your agentic storefronts setting now shares products with Meta and unnamed startups. Leave it on, and watch what Shopify adds.

Andrej Karpathy suggests asking LLMs to explain topics in an aerospace writing standard, or to answer with diagrams, HTML pages, or custom explainer videos.

Google's people-first content guidance now warns site owners against fabricated author profiles, a form of deception its rater guidelines already described.

A step-by-step process for building an SEO content roadmap that accounts for AI Overviews, from keyword gaps to a prioritized, citation-ready plan.

Google's AI Mode monitoring and OpenAI's dots keep requests active, with different tasks, sources, controls, and questions about site visibility.

Google's guidance on AI-generated content now says to fact-check it by hand before publishing, and the review extends to titles, alt text, and other metadata.

New research from Pew found that sentiment surrounding app usage has soured over the last four years, with adults statistically more worried than teens.

Only 23 apps have historically been able to report that level of uptake, according to Yahoo Finance and data from Sensor Tower.

A new study commissioned by the app outlined its impact on jobs, small businesses and consumer learning opportunities.

YouTube's updating its recommendation systems to prioritize creator-made videos, which will also reduce the reach of aggregator accounts.

YouTube is updating recommendations to favor original Shorts and reduce reach for channels that mainly re-upload others' clips without significant changes.

The feature aligns with similar tools on TikTok and X, and offers users a new way to add context to their posts in the app.

AI changed the buyer in 18 months. Most businesses still run on 12-month plans. Here's where the gap shows up and why it keeps widening.

Google has data, chips and cash to lead in AI. The real question is whether it will disrupt the Search business that pays for everything.

Gemini's new UTM parameters give site owners clearer attribution for traffic coming from Google's AI platform.

Understand the most common structured data mistakes that hurt AI visibility and how to avoid them

Google antitrust ruling shows how publishers can allege real harm yet still fail in a federal court.

Join CTM on October 13 to learn how first-party customer data can earn AI citations, improve FAQ content, and reveal which clicks become leads.

Cloudflare's Monetization Gateway charges AI agents per request in a closed beta, and Pay Per Use pays publishers for the AI uses that buyers report.

A new report says Google's AI contribution pilot pays publishers widely different amounts, and some participants still can't tell how payouts are calculated.

LiveRamp expands its OpenAI partnership, bringing RampID first-party audiences to ChatGPT Ads as advertisers gain more targeting and bidding options.

The platform also announced an end to free API access as it tries to protect its data from artificial intelligence scrapers.

The app already allows promotional boosts of posts, Stories and Reels, and now creators can use an in-app feature to increase engagement of their live videos.

The messaging app has implemented tools that will help monitor what groups teens connect with and how certain in-app features are used.

The app expanded its Museums Alive series by partnering with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to showcase the museum’s Egyptian collection.

The platform announced the launch of Hiring Assistant 2, which has improved capacity for personalization and candidate matchmaking.

How much SEO work can you move off the cloud and onto the user's machine? A Chrome extension experiment with Gemini Nano has answers.

The company said its artificial intelligence-powered “creative partner” will help users discover patterns and create content in the video editing app.

OpenAI's Dots can review connected apps and run scheduled checks between conversations, with read-only limits on proactive research.

Your PR team's Wikipedia, podcast, and Reddit expertise can help you build the third-party signals that support AI visibility.

Google Analytics now supports app conversions in its performance and attribution reports.

See whether AI search reaches buyers and creates qualified opportunities with five measures covering brand presence, answer accuracy, and attribution.

OuterBox launches OBxFrontier, a custom AI development service that maps client workflow problems and builds AI agents around their existing systems.

Tom Capper of STAT walks through the biggest AI search measurement challenges and a tactical solution for each one: October 14 at 2 p.m. ET.

The platform will be offering either Agency Partner or Premier Agency Partner badges to assure marketers that partnership requirements have been met.

The app’s School Partnerships offer educators a way to report potential safety issues directly, and is launching school-related in-app hubs.

The company is trying to convert Facebook Groups into a more interactive Q&A format, while also adding topic labels to help with discovery.

The company said that in the week between Christmas and New Year’s, marketing experts should shift from gifting to self-care.

The company’s agentic artificial intelligence tools can help small businesses improve workflows and work with connector partner apps.

The app added live reactions and a raise hand feature, and will soon launch web-based live chats.

AnswerShare reports more recommendations in a client test after publishing sourced brand context. Here is how its machine-layer works & what it cannot fix.

Test whether honest expectations and money-back guarantees build trust in health marketing, then judge results beyond the first conversion.

Any website can write Amazon's block-page sentence into its own terms. Spotting an agent that looks like a shopper is the hard part.

Shopify has extended its WebMCP tools into checkout, letting browser agents update a shopper's checkout and place the order after the buyer confirms it.

Q2 data shows Google desktop CTR down and mobile up at top positions, in a comparison spanning the end of a Search Console logging error.

EmDash 1.0 trades WordPress's freedom of choice for heavy reliance on Cloudflare's infrastructure.

A report using Similarweb panel data breaks down ChatGPT ad click-through rates by market and tracks how often the top ChatGPT advertisers changed.

Better AI marketing starts with testing assumptions, aligning brand messaging, and building evidence into PR pitches before publishing.

Google and Uberall explain how to improve local AI-search readiness through accurate Business Profiles, relevant content, review responses, and location-level measurement.

Google is rolling out AI Mode’s information monitoring globally, with ongoing updates and suggested monitoring tasks in Search.