TL;DR Gartner predicts that more than 40% of CMOs who push for bigger brand budgets this year will lose influence with the C-suite—not because the money isn’t needed, but because they can’t connect the ask to what the business runs on. Meanwhile, budgets are flat, and more than half of
In the past two years, Google has dropped support for nine ItemTypes from its rich result search gallery. This has happened not too long after ChatGPT’s launch and when mass adoption began: Image from author, July 2026 The question remains whether this decline will continue, but the most recent removal
Even in the age of AI, dashboards remain central to how marketers engage with DSPs and plan their advertising campaigns. In announcing its Ivy Studio advertising hub today, StackAdapt put forth a vision for advertising’s future, where AI agents help marketers turn business objectives into business outcomes. Ivy Studio is
For South Korean illustrator and artist Makitoy, the act of drawing sits closer to “recording time than producing a final result”, she tells us. The artist’s practice consists of persistent observation and repetition through daily collages and illustrations. She charts whole months with micro collages the size of stamps and
Over the weekend, shared Claude chats unexpectedly showed up in Google search results. On July 27, I checked out the crawl rules on the Claude share pages and found a noindex directive that was hidden behind a block, preventing Google from accessing it The share path is blocked by robots.txt
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) just dropped another industry acronym — as if the media biz needed another one — but this one may prove useful. Earlier this month, the IAB released its Redefining Media Types (RMT) Standard framework that aims to add clarity to
To download the accompanying files for ImagineFX issue 269, head to this link and click download. Please note: if you have any trouble downloading the file, right-click the link and open it in a new browser window. Next, click in the URL address line to select all of the link,
ChatGPT included citations in 22.6% of travel answers and 4.8% of education answers in May, against an average of 6.8% across all answers, according to Similarweb’s 2026 Generative AI Landscape report. The figures cover U.S. desktop use. Similarweb sells AI visibility tracking products, and the report is gated behind a
On Monday, Today co-host Savannah Guthrie shared her latest plea for the return of her mother, Nancy Guthrie. In a social media post captioned “Bring her home,” Savannah Guthrie spoke directly to her mother’s abductors, telling them that their family is in agony and experiencing an unending nightmare since she
