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American Marketing Association

Research Insight | Think Twice Before Marketing AI as “Better than Humans”

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Citeline

Pharma Buying Trends: Longer Decisions, More Stakeholders

The rules of pharma supplier selection have changed — is your strategy keeping up?

Social Media Today

X updates its engagement bait detection

The platform is using Grok’s artificial intelligence system to remove accounts that solicit engagement from its creator revenue share program.

Social Media Today

X adds Grok-powered insights to Ads Manager

The move represents the platform’s latest artificial intelligence advancement and could eventually lead to full advertising automation.

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 17, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...

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Digiday

Rather than going with the crowd, marketers are now questioning measurement ambiguity

Platforms report what they can see. Teams optimize within the environments they control. Dashboards reflect the signals being fed into them.

Marketing Dive

Netflix says live events bolster ads but affect viewer engagement

The format, a focus of its current upfront talks, can drive ad revenue and fandom but typically results in lower raw viewing hours.

Duct Tape Marketing

AI Strategy Starts With Leadership, Not Technology

AI Strategy Starts With Leadership, Not Technology written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape MarketingCatch The Full Episode Overview What happens to a business when the tactical, repetitive work that once trained junior employees gets absorbed by AI?

Chief Marketer

This Marketing Consultancy Deciphers Consumers’ Brand Associations – And Doesn’t Believe In Segmentation

Marketing consultancy Triggers might know what you’re thinking better than you do. It sounds creepy, but as far as tech platforms go, Triggers has one of the less invasive methods of understanding how consumers think and feel about brands.

Adweek

Legacy Tuna Brand StarKist Picks Tombras to Make Its Mascot a Viral Hit

StarKist is banking on the new AOR partnership to bring its brand into the zeitgeist

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Making Broader Smart Bidding Updates? Google Says No.

The PPC community has been going wild over the change that is coming to Google Ads around bidding for campaigns limited by budget on August 18th. There is some belief that this is going to be a broader smart bidding update than what Google communicated.

Digiday

Walmart reveals soccer fans’ World Cup shopping habits

This story was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail Data is starting to trickle in about how consumers’ shopping habits shifted during the …