The retail industry is facing a significant surge in legal scrutiny as “phantom discount” practices come under fire. In recent weeks, major global brands — including Lululemon and Nike — have been the subject of lawsuits alleging deceptive pricing strategies, where products are marketed with dubious “regular” prices that make
Twelve-year-old me could enthusiastically rattle off every detail of Spider-Man’s comic book legacy: the year the character was first published, which issues featured the first appearance of the Green Goblin or the Punisher or key stories like the death of Gwen Stacy, how many comics Steve Ditko drew or when
Welcome to this week’s Pulse: updates on your search data sources, AI-flagged pages in rankings, and potential impacts of opting out of Google’s AI features. Here’s what you need to know for your work. Google Opens Search Console Social Reporting To Everyone Google made Search Console platform properties available to
Listen up, marketing sharks, because Shark Week has a fin-tastic business plan to keep fans interested even after nearly four decades. Started on the Discovery Channel in 1988, Shark Week has expanded far beyond TV screens into real-life activations and partnerships that keep fans engaged, whether that’s driving long distances
Cloudflare and the three major browser makers want to prove there is a human behind your traffic. They announced how on June 22, 2026, as more and more of that traffic comes from agents with no human behind it at all. PACT answers the case where a person is in
AI is speeding up marketing production. Measurement hasn’t kept pace. Marketers are 68% more likely to measure email and landing page performance by click-through rate than by revenue or pipeline influenced, according to a new report from marketing production platform Knak. The finding exposes a gap between adopting AI and
ChaChaanTeng could afford to explore such novelty across the project because of the blank slate it was handed. “When the project first came to us, there was naturally some inspiration from Japanese vending machines, 7-Eleven culture and the Amsterdam chain, FIBO,” says Wei. “The way it’s portrayed through packaging and
Rand Fishkin, the co-founder and CEO of SparkToro, posted on LinkedIn on July 24, 2026, to say that Similarweb’s newest report would “probably infuriate” two groups at once. The AI zealots who are certain every marketing dollar should already be chasing chatbot visibility. And the AI skeptics who’ve suspected the
Compute is about to become the next big commodity in advertising. The economics demand it. AI has gotten expensive enough, fast enough, that holdco CEOs are now being asked outright how funding it won’t come at the expense of staying profitable. The IAB Europe’s chief economist Daniel Knapp put it
