Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Thursday, August 27, 2026
 
Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 26, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Digiday
Dentsu expands and consolidates its commerce and retail media offering under new leadership
One reason for the move to bring in new leadership: the commerce media and retail media worlds continue to grow at impressive rates
 
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Showing Fewer PDF Files. But Why?
Google seems to be showing fewer and fewer PDF files, and when it does show PDF files, it seems not to show them from some pretty important sites, like IRS.gov, New York State, and some others.
 
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Social Media Today
Pinterest hobbies report highlights DIY and vintage
The platform said users are focused on hands-on, offline pastimes including kitchen- and nature-themed crafts.
 
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Fortune
Over 1 million people clicked LinkedIn’s ‘seems like AI slop’ button as the platform fights to keep ‘dead internet...
One analysis found LinkedIn was “the most AI-saturated platform,” with more than 40% of its long-form posts being flagged as completely AI-generated.
 
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Digiday
USA Today Co. is reformatting content to attract more AI licensing deals
USA Today Co. is testing ways to reformat content for AI bots in a bid to attract licensing deals and unlock new revenue.
 
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Adweek
Uber’s Back-to-School Campaign Wants to Turn Gen Z Manifestations Into Reality
Uber's back-to-school campaign helps teens manifest their hopes and dreams.
 
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Adweek
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Deck Outlines The Trade Desk’s Agentic Plans for H2 2026
The push comes as The Trade Desk and its rivals race to determine how AI agents will reshape the way advertisers plan, buy and optimize media.
 
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CMSWire
How to Maintain Brand Consistency Across Franchise Locations Without Slowing Down Local Marketing
Franchisees want to follow brand guidelines, but sometimes demand can overwhelm capacity. Here’s how having a centralized technological solution can help.Continue reading...
 
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Chief Marketer
Podcast Guesting Is a Core PR Strategy. Here’s How to Get Your Client Booked.
Two things to check before any list is worth pitching from: the date of the last published podcast episode and whether the show actually takes guests at all.
 
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Brain Pickings
How to Delight in Your Days: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness
"The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study... I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight."
 
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CMSWire
When 3 Martech Platforms Disagree, Who Wins?
Three systems, three definitions of the same customer. Add AI and one of them just gets to be confidently wrong first.Continue reading...
 
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This four-week series is designed to get you to the second. Across four live sessions, you will use ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and others to build an actual marketing strategy, produce on-brand content, and set up performance reporting designed for your real work.

 
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American Marketing Association
Meta Ads in 2026: AI, Advantage+ and What’s Actually Working

Running Meta ads