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Meta Partners With Midjourney in AI Boost

Meta has announced a new partnership with AI startup Midjourney, marking a strategic step in its broader push to lead in artificial intelligence. This agreement will see Meta license Midjourney’s image and video generation technology, whi ....

29/08/2025
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LinkedIn Tests New Premium Tools for SMBs

29/08/2025 James Fitzgerald

LinkedIn is quietly piloting a new Premium offering designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The Premium Business Suite is currently in limited testing, but the early featu ....

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Meta Forces Ads Automation

29/08/2025 James Fitzgerald

Meta is accelerating its pivot to fully automated advertising, with sweeping changes to detailed targeting and exclusions that will impact campaign structure from January 2026. These updates are not optional. Advertisers still relying on ma ....

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AI platforms are no longer a curiosity in the search landscape. They’re now a meaningful source of web traffic. According to new data from Previsible, first featured in ....

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Instagram Finally Adds Reposts and Maps

18/08/2025 James Fitzgerald

Instagram has officially rolled out three new features that mark a clear pivot in how the platform is used. Reposts, a Snap-style Friend Map, and a new Friends tab in Reels are now available to all users, each designed to increase engagemen ....

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Instagram marketers looking to grow reach and followers in 2025 should be thinking less about clever hacks and more about consistency. New data from Buffer, based on more than 2 million posts from over 100,000 accounts, confirms a simple tr ....

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The ongoing rollout of Google’s AI Overviews has prompted intense debate among publishers, SEOs and advertisers. Critics claim the feature is eroding referral traffic from search, while Google insists the opposite is true, arguing that it ....

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Instagram Updates Performance Metrics

11/08/2025 James Fitzgerald

Social media marketers have long relied on familiar metrics — reach, likes, views — yet these numbers have often fallen short of explaining why something worked or how to improve it next time. Th ....

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ChatGPT 5 Launches

11/08/2025 James Fitzgerald

OpenAI has launched GPT-5, consolidating its previous specialist AI models into a single system capable of adapting speed, depth and tone on demand. For CMOs and corporate communications leaders, this is less about technical prowess and mor ....

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Google AI Search Splits

03/08/2025 James Fitzgerald

Search marketers are facing a fundamental change in how Google delivers answers. The introduction of two distinct AI-powered search formats, AI Mode and AI Overviews, marks a shift from a single set of ranking rules to a dual-path system wi ....

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Search behaviour is undergoing a quiet revolution. What was once a near-synonym for “Googling” is now a more complex, multi-platform experience shaped by intent, topic and audience. New data from Claneo, in partnership with Appinio, rev ....

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Instagram Shares Content Engagement Guide

03/08/2025 James Fitzgerald

In today’s Instagram landscape, marketers are playing for marginal gains. Organic visibility is tightening, competition is fierce, and attention is spread across multiple surfaces. To achieve meaningful results, brands can no longer rely ....