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llms.txt is the velvet rope between your content and AI crawlers. Here’s how ad ops can turn it into AI-safe inventory, enforce compliance, and turn crawls into cash.

With Google’s AI summary, consumers are less likely to click through to websites, a Pew Research study finds.  A new Pew Research Center study confirms what retail marketers have likely known for the past year: When Google shows consumers an artificial intelligence-generated summary at the top of search results, they are less likely to click […]

“In the year of the lord 2025, we do not use ROAS.” That was the position of one agency media buyer during a conversation about the Marketing Efficiency Ratio (MER). The data-driven advertising metric has been around for many years but is now reaching mainstream or at least revered status. That is an exaggeration, of […]

There’s understandable anxiety about generative AI handling tasks that people used to do. But just because someone is using generative AI to churn out marketing copy or creative doesn’t necessarily mean the results are any good. Like any other tool, knowing how to get the most out of a large language model takes time and […]

The publisher monetization startup ArcSpan raised $5.2 million in a seed extension round Wednesday. It will use the fund to invest in its tool set, which simplifies how publishers can use their first-party data.

Forrester’s “Budget Planning Guide 2026: B2B Marketing Executives” focuses largely on resilience when budgeting the year ahead. Recommendations include investing in influencer relations and improving discoverability in AI searches.

Amazon has more than 1,000 generative AI applications built or in the works, which will reduce the number of employees Amazon needs, CEO Andy Jassy says.   Amazon is pouring money into artificial intelligence, and its investments are starting to take shape. CEO Andy Jassy detailed a few in his recent message to employees:  Amazon […]

ChatGPT gives SEO marketers more human-like responses to queries, while Gemini explains technical SEO better in generative AI test. Retail marketers have likely tapped generative artificial intelligence tools ChatGPT and Google Gemini in the past year to help them with their tasks, including search engine optimization.   The large language models are valuable tools to […]

Dentsu-owned media agency Carat wants to understand audiences better, and its solution is an introvert’s dream: cut down on human conversations and bring in the bots. On Thursday, Carat announced a partnership with Vurvey Labs (a portmanteau of “video” and “survey”), an agentic AI-powered research platform that uses short video surveys to quickly get insights about […]

The web is hurting. Google is doing splendidly. The second quarter was a “standout,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai told investors on Tuesday, with “robust growth across the company.” Pichai’s use of the word “the company” is notable, though. Google’s total revenue grew by 14% to $96.4 billion in the quarter, and its net profit was […]