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Who Won, Who Cut and What Comes Next in Advertising

Silvana Trevale’s photographs of Venezuelan youth are a love letter to a generation growing up in uncertainty

The decision to focus on youth grew out of an earlier project, Nosotras, which celebrated the women of Venezuela and “how hard they worked to keep their families afloat”, Silvana says. Returning to Venezuela afterwards, she found herself thinking about beach days with friends as a child, and the realisation that the country’s youth –

Microsoft Just Proved A Point About Search Today

The company that owns a major web index just documented, in its own product, that ranking a page and citing a passage are different jobs. Web IQ arriving at Build on June 2, and AI citation data showing up inside Bing Webmaster Tools earlier this year, were not surprises. As I know well, having built

Nike’a 2026 Q4 growth margin increased 890 basis points

Nike says it’s in a better financial position as it awaits nearly $1 billion in refunds related to tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. On Tuesday, Nike shared that its growth margin for its fiscal fourth quarter of 2026 increased 890 basis points to 49.2%, “primarily due to the expected recovery of the IEEPA

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Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot

Cloudflare is updating its method of identifying and blocking AI crawlers, which may result in Googlebot being blocked on sites that prevent AI training. The company announced the update as part of its second Content Independence Day. The new controls let websites manage automated traffic based on three behaviors rather than a single “block AI

CareDx Illustration System

For CareDX, a California-based biotechnology and precision medicine company leading the field of transplant care, we developed a flexible illustration system based on continuous line drawings. Commissioned by Mucho and created together with our friends and talented partners at Familia, the system translates the brand’s commitment to transplant care into a warm, human and consistent

A Copyright Claim Can Remove Your Page From Google Search

A copyright complaint can remove a page from Google’s search results based on a notice, even if ownership claims are later disputed or inaccurate. Press Gazette saw this happen twice this year. In late June, the journalism trade outlet reported that a second piece of its reporting about the marketing company Clickout Media had been

AI visibility depends on who writes about your brand

A client called after Google’s May 2026 core update, worried that a flagship product page had slipped from position two to eight. The rankings had dropped, but that wasn’t the first question worth asking anymore. The real question was whether buyers could still find the brand when they asked ChatGPT, Google’s AI Mode, or another

At Warsaw’s The Poster Festival, a new school of artists emerge alongside an overlooked history of graphic design

Part of the festival was a whopping eight-hour conference bringing together a wealth of designers from across Europe, from Switzerland’s ‘atelier’ Kolly Gujer and Graphic Matters to institutions such as the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the International Poster Biennale. The discussions, talks and panels reached topics such as ‘is the poster dead?’

AI Search Is Nothing Without SEO & It Knows It

As AI summaries compress traditional organic space, referral traffic to publishers is being squeezed, creating a world where search is more used than ever, but the search interface is also retaining users for longer, where it has historically acted like a switchboard. The outlook from publishers is pessimistic, with traffic expected to halve in the

Inside Electronic Art’s bet in-game ads can out-earn CTV

Gaming is the next big ad medium after social, CTV and retail media. That’s according to Electronic Arts’ vp of advertising and sponsorship, Alex Dao, who’s building out their ads business. The unit launched last month and covers brand partnerships and gameplay integrations, ad units in 3D sports simulations, enhanced targeting and measurement capabilities as

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Beth is Creative Bloq’s Ecommerce Writer and has the fun job of finding you the very best prices and deals on creative tech. Beth kicked off her journalistic career writing for Digital Camera World and has since earned bylines on TechRadar and PetsRadar too. With a Master’s degree in Photography, Beth loves getting to tinker

Where Clicks Go, What Agents Skip, Who’s Leaving Bing

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: Google’s explanation for lost clicks was tested; a case study showed why Core Web Vitals fixes target the wrong element; a report measured how agents handle pricing pages; John Mueller weighed in on agent access; and a longtime Bing leader announced his retirement. Here’s what matters for you and your

Compilation 35

This gallery presents a selection of illustrations, mixing geometric shapes, psychedelic colors, and bold, clean linework. Each piece reflects my signature style?vibrant, detailed, and influenced by European graphic design.

Lighthouse Fails Your Llms.txt Without Markdown Links

Chrome’s new Lighthouse Agentic Browsing audit treats your .txt file as a markdown document. If your llms.txt does not use markdown link syntax, you fail the audit, even when every link in the file is accurate and works. I ran the audit on nohacks.co. Two of six audits passed. Three came back not applicable. One

Stop adopting AI and start solving problems

AI was supposed to make marketing faster, smarter, and more efficient. In theory, it does. But in practice, many teams are moving so quickly to adopt AI that they’re using it reactively instead of strategically. Instead of streamlining work, they’re creating new friction. I’ve watched clients adopt an AI tool because everyone else is, without

The Weekend With Rene Matić

The youngest Turner Prize nominee to date, artist Rene Matić’s work spans photography, film and sculpture, often weaving through themes of identity, nationality and belonging, as well as feminism and queerness. The artist has just been awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for their project As Opposed to The Truth – a powerful, layered

Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search

Google Search now routes searchers to the domain’s own AMP host pages. Google will no longer use the AMP viewer, AMP Cache, or signed exchanges for AMP serving. AMP content will continue to rank like any other web page. Google Search now takes searchers directly to a domain’s AMP host pages, ending the viewer/cache serving

Bose is building an entertainment company

Bose Studios launched last month. But the music company’s entertainment division is the culmination of a strategic shift that has been years in the making. It already accounts for one-third to 40% of the brand’s marketing, CMO Jim Mollica told Digiday at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity last week. He expects that to reach

What the Lego x Olivia Rodrigo collaboration teaches designers

Lego has launched a five-set collection built around Olivia Rodrigo; the first time the company has dedicated multiple sets to a single musician. The range, launching globally on 1 August, includes a vinyl display, a guitar-shaped storage case, a concert moon scene, a dual acoustic-and-electric guitar build, and a personalised entry into Lego’s Botanicals range.

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