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Marketing Dive

Microdrama advertising surges as downloads soar: Report

The category has the highest density of advertising creative, with active advertisers on microdrama apps rising by 132% during the first half of the year.

Distilled

Which Marketing Metric Should You Actually Trust?

Your platform numbers say a channel is delivering strong ROAS. Your MMM suggests you’ve probably overspent there. An incrementality test indicates a positive lift. Which number should determine where the next dollar goes?

Marketing Dive

Drop the hysteria. Paid search is here to stay.

Paid search isn't dead. The data shows top brands still invest, outperform and win with search today.

Social Media Today

X launches MCP server

The system allows advertisers to connect their campaigns to the artificial intelligence tool of their choice and use it to guide their promotions.

Social Media Today

Meta glasses face more challenges

Sales are strong, but customer misuse has prompted bans, restrictions and a new market of apps that will alert people when camera-equipped devices are nearby.

Digiday

OpenAI is sharpening its focus on enterprise advertisers

OpenAI’s enterprise ambitions have found a new target: ad teams. The company is hiring a San Francisco-based head of ads enterprise marketing to shape …

Seth's Blog

“Thanks for your quick response”

Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Aware Of Reviews Missing After Google Business Profile Reinstatement

Google is aware of and in the process of addressing an issue where reviews are missing after a Google Business Profile gets reinstated after it was suspended.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Console Sends New Owner Email Notifications - Bug?

Many of you may have woken up this morning to emails from Google Search Console notifying you of a new owner on your Search Console accounts. I received a couple, as did many of you.

The Ahrefs Blog

MBA Metrics for SEO: How to Speak Leadership’s Language

As an SEO professional, metrics like rankings, traffic, and clicks are meaningful to you, but to a leadership team trained on market share and return on investment, they’re noise. That’s not a bias against SEO. It’s just what happens when…Read more ›

CMSWire

Why Marketers Still Need to Talk to Real Customers, Not Just AI

AI can draft your pitch deck, summarize your data and generate ideas in seconds — but it can't tell you if a real customer would believe any of it.Continue reading...

Adweek

Ticker: MS NOW Introduces Its Membership Subscription Program

ABC News Live is also introducing four new programs to its streaming lineup.

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