The winners of the D&AD Pencils 2026 have been announced, recognising excellence and innovation in commercial creativity across a massive 46 categories, from craft to animation and advertising. Some 573 awards were bestowed this year, including 52 coveted Yellow Pencils, along with two White Pencils celebrating creative work designed for
I stumbled upon three separate articles about writing and AI in the same week, each from a completely different angle, and all describing the same thing. A novelist turned MIT writing lecturer confronting students who outsourced their essays to AI. A new Graphite study showing AI-generated articles now make up
Creative may win the awards, media gets the moolah, but metadata is what helps AI marketing actually work. Metadata is already important today as the currency for organic search. When I say metadata, I mean everything from schema markup and product-feed attributes to image descriptors, DAM tags, provenance signals, and
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: This week’s updates touch rankings, the Search interface, AI Mode behavior, and Google’s guidance around AI agents. Google launched a core update, announced what it called the biggest upgrade to the Search box in over 25 years, released first-party AI Mode usage data, and sent
Autonomous agent-to-agent trading could hit scale within six to 12 months. But there’s a catch: the industry’s standards need to keep pace with the technology. That’s what Jamie Allen, Nvidia’s director of AI for sports, ad tech and streaming media told me earlier this week when we caught up. From
In artist and designer Zander Raymond’s studio, a lot of things are left lying around. Found materials, tools, images, stickers and paper waste all amass into a large pile of daily debris that has become one of the creatives most precious resources for his pursuits in collage. Drawing from this
For roughly two decades, the SEO discipline operated on a quiet assumption that turned out to be one of its most valuable features. Guidance from one search engine traveled. If Google said sitemaps mattered, Bing said sitemaps mattered. If Bing said structured data deserved real effort, Google said the same.
Penske Media in Talks to Acquire Unsold Vox Media Brands Penske Media plans to acquire either all or none of the unsold Vox Media brands, a transaction that would also see Vox president Ryan Pauley join PMC. Cannes Lions is where the biggest ideas take center stage.
The 51 finalists have been announced for this year’s BAFTA Young Game Designers competition. Chosen from hundreds of entrants aged between 10 and 18, they were selected by judging panels that include representatives from developers like IO Interactive (007 First Light) and TT Games (LEGO Batman: Legacy of The Dark
