I recently spoke with an SEO who, along with his entire team, had just been laid off. The company was rapidly losing organic traffic, leadership was frustrated, and from their perspective, nothing was being done to fix it. The SEO saw it very differently. They had submitted more than 1,400
Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire LiveRamp for $2.2 billion all-cash deal, the French holding company said Sunday. Publicis is betting the acquisition will position it as a leader in agentic transformation—or the use of AI agents to automate and collaborate on corporate workflows. “Where we truly need LiveRamp is
As a society, many of us often have a good whinge about the price of things, but skincare brand The Ordinary is here to prove that it could be much worse. Its new pop-up shop, the Markup Marché, has attracted attention for its obscene price tags, from $175.90 bananas to
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch says he told company teams to plan their businesses as if search traffic were zero. Lynch made the comments in an interview on TBPN, a tech talk show OpenAI acquired in April. He described three consecutive years in which internal budget forecasts underestimated actual declines
Marketing teams have more ways than ever to create, distribute, adapt, and measure content. Technology has made production faster. Templates have made execution more efficient. Automation has made scale feel increasingly achievable. However, more creative output doesn’t automatically translate into greater marketing impact. The challenge is no longer simply producing
BMK ? BUDAPEST CULTURAL CENTER The BMK identity is built on a modular visual system representing cultural connection, community networks, and the diversity of Budapest. The interlocking geometric forms act as visual metaphors for interaction, collaboration, and continuous cultural exchange. The system emphasizes BMK’s role as a cultural hub connecting
On March 20, 2026, Google quietly added a new entry to its official list of web fetchers. Not a crawler. Not a training bot. An agent. Google-Agent is the user agent string for AI systems running on Google infrastructure that browse websites on behalf of users. When someone asks an AI assistant
Amazon wants to turn creator-led video podcasts into the next generation of TV networks – multiplatform franchises that can soak up TV budgets and spin out into retail, live events and social clips. That pitch was front and center at Amazon’s May 11 Upfront in New York City, where performances
As food has taken over as her focus, Steph has a new take on colour: “It’s definitely leant more into the painterly side,” she says, and new palettes have emerged from the different textures and surfaces of food the illustrator has drawn – like her airy line up of deserts
If your organic traffic is down but your pipeline looks fine, you’re not imagining it. AI-generated answers are intercepting the journey earlier, meaning users are getting what they need from a citation or a recommendation before they ever hit your site. The click never happens. But the influence did. That’s
