Google is testing a new AI-powered search experience within YouTube, introducing more conversational discovery tools for users. The feature, called Ask YouTube, expands Google’s wider AI search strategy and brings more interactive search functionality directly into YouTube. The update is significant given YouTube’s role as one of the world’s largest search platforms. Often described as […]
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OpenAI is taking a major step toward turning ChatGPT ads into a scalable advertising platform, introducing self-serve campaign buying, CPC bidding, and improved measurement capabilities. Until now, ChatGPT advertising has operated as a tightly controlled pilot programme, largely limited to major brands and agency partners. The latest updates signal a shift toward broader adoption, opening
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Meta is evolving its ad ecosystem around three areas: culture, creators, and AI. Recent updates across Reels, partnership ads, and generative tools show how these elements are becoming more tightly integrated, with implications for how brands plan, produce, and optimise social campaigns. Culture Is Now A Planning Input One of the more notable developments, highlighted
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For many in-house marketing and communications teams, Microsoft Copilot has become a default AI layer, largely due to its integration within Microsoft 365 and alignment with existing IT policies. It has already influenced how content is created. Drafting, ideation, and research have become faster. Execution, however, has remained more fragmented. Campaign messaging is developed in
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LinkedIn is becoming a far more strategic platform in an AI-driven discovery landscape. Recent updates highlight two converging shifts. Long-form articles are driving stronger engagement, while also playing a growing role in how AI chatbots source and cite information. Taken together, these trends signal a change in how marketers should approach content creation, distribution, and
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Meta has introduced a new Adaptive Ranking Model for ad delivery, aimed at improving performance while reducing the cost of reaching high value users. The update is already delivering measurable gains. Meta reports a 3% lift in conversions and a 5% increase in click-through rates on Instagram since rollout . More importantly, it reflects a
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OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT advertising beyond the US, with Australia among the first international markets to go live. The rollout marks a shift from early testing to broader scale, as the company builds a new advertising channel within its AI products. That expansion comes as ChatGPT usage continues to accelerate across markets. In Australia, usage
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LinkedIn has become the most cited domain for professional queries across major AI platforms, marking a significant shift in how expertise is surfaced in AI-generated answers. New data from Profound shows the platform surged from outside the top 20 to the top five most cited sources on ChatGPT in just three months, one of the
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New data from Ahrefs, spanning more than 74,000 websites, offers one of the clearest views yet of how traffic is shifting in the AI era. Nearly 90 million search visits have disappeared over the past nine months, a figure that immediately raises concerns about the future of organic discovery. However, the more important story sits
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Four weeks into OpenAI’s rollout of ads in ChatGPT, early data suggests a familiar pattern. Despite the shift in interface, user behaviour and advertiser strategy look strikingly similar to traditional search. New insights from Sensor Tower provide one of the first clear views into how ads are appearing within ChatGPT responses, and what that reveals
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