Marketing operations teams have long carried the weight of the tech stack, keeping systems running and data flowing behind the scenes. But the reality of modern MOps is that “maintenance mode” often consumes the bandwidth needed for strategic contribution. At the May 6th MarTech Conference, the session “The art of
This week’s Pulse covers how AI Overviews affect click behavior, what independent research shows, and what earnings reports from Google and Microsoft reveal about search revenue. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Reid Repeats “Bounce Clicks” Argument On Bloomberg Google’s head of Search, Liz Reid, told Bloomberg’s Odd
More publishers are turning to AI-powered search and chatbot tools to make their sites stickier to users and offset the impact of zero-click search. HuffPost UK, Reach and USA Today Co., are among the latest to add a new AI answer engine toolbar from Taboola, to answer users’ questions with
French photographer and filmmaker Anaïs Kugel was deeply influenced by cinema growing up. “As a child, I was fascinated by The City of Lost Children by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and as a teenager I was drawn to filmmakers such as David Lynch and Michel Gondry, whose imaginative and
On April 16, 2026, Robby Stein, Google Search’s VP of Product, and Mike Torres, Google Chrome’s VP of Product, announced a new way to explore the web with AI Mode in Chrome. In their announcement, the two VPs wrote that the update makes it easier to “access and engage with
In this episode of Adspeak by ADWEEK, senior editor of brands Rob Klara sits down with a panel of leaders redefining the modern CEO role. Featuring Bing Che, co-founder & CEO Gold House; Jessica Schinazi, CEO of Away; and Artis Stevens, president & CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Splatoon has undoubtedly been Nintendo’s most successful of its new IPs, reinventing the team-based shooter that’s often mature and militaristic for something more family-friendly and weird – and it’s no wonder that the genre’s popularity has only gotten broader with the likes of Overwatch and Fortnite targeting a teen audience
Alphabet reported Q1 2026 earnings with Google Search & Other revenue rising 19% year over year to $60.4 billion. Microsoft announced on the same day that Bing reached 1 billion monthly active users for the first time, with search ad revenue up 12%. Both companies posted strong search quarters. But
The bottleneck in content operations isn’t content creation. Research from the latest MarTech Intelligence Report on DAM platforms found that as asset volume, personalization demands, and channel complexity continue to climb, the chokepoint is likely in the systems required to manage, adapt, and distribute content at scale. Let’s start with content volume,
The page tells developers that websites have “a new type of visitor” and recommends building for agents alongside humans. Most of the guidance maps to existing accessibility and semantic HTML practices. Google links to WebMCP, a proposed web standard for agent-website interaction, with an early preview program. Google’s web.dev guidance
