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Google’s AI Answers Are Creating Brand Reputation Problems

Google’s AI search products are creating a new reputation management problem for brands. Businesses are already reporting cases where AI Overviews have confused companies, surfaced unrelated complaints and presented outdated information as part of authoritative looking summaries. At small scale, those errors could be dismissed as another generation of search oddities. Google’s reach makes that […]

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Google Boosts Reporting AI In GA4 & Google Ads

Google is bringing Gemini much deeper into Google Ads and Google Analytics, with a new generation of AI features designed to help marketers understand performance without digging through reports manually. At the centre is Ask Advisor, Google’s Gemini-powered conversational assistant. It can answer questions about campaign and website performance, investigate changes, generate visualisations and point

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Meta’s AI Ads Engine Hits $75bn

Meta’s automated advertising business has reached serious scale. In its latest earnings call, Meta said advertising running through its Advantage+ solutions had reached a $75 billion annual revenue run-rate during the second quarter of 2026. The number needs context. Advantage+ is not a separate $75 billion revenue stream sitting alongside Meta Ads. It reflects advertising

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Reddit Battles AI Search Manipulation

Reddit’s growing influence in AI search is creating an increasingly valuable marketing signal, and an equally obvious incentive to manipulate it. The platform has become an important source for AI-generated answers involving recommendations, comparisons, opinions and first-hand experiences. Discussions that were once primarily valuable to people browsing Reddit can now potentially influence how products and

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[STUDY] Google Closes In On ChatGPT

For much of the past three years, ChatGPT has been the default reference point for generative AI. It built the category, established the behaviour and became the product most people associated with AI search, research and everyday problem-solving. Google is now beginning to narrow that lead. Similarweb estimates that ChatGPT’s share of worldwide generative AI

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Copilot Builds Marketing’s AI Production Layer

Microsoft is bringing brand systems directly into Copilot’s production workflow. Its latest release expands Copilot’s access to approved brand assets, organisational templates and governed business data across PowerPoint, Excel and the wider Microsoft 365 environment. Word, Excel and PowerPoint agents can also be called directly from Copilot Chat to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Taken

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Meta AI Feeds Expand Organic Reach

Meta is using large language models to understand content more deeply across Instagram and Facebook, reshaping how posts are classified, recommended and distributed. Every public Feed and Reels post on Instagram is now processed through an LLM and assessed across factors including its topic, tone and likely audience relevance. Meta is also using its Muse

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ChatGPT Builds Out Its Ad Platform

OpenAI is rapidly adding the campaign controls, audience tools and creative formats required to turn ChatGPT advertising from a limited experiment into a functioning media platform. Advertisers can now run conversion-optimised campaigns, use daily budgets, apply geographic controls, upload campaigns in bulk and connect customer lists through custom audiences. A refreshed static ad format gives

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