digital marketing

Google will stop counting display ad impressions that never render in February 2027

From Feb. 17, 2027, AdSense and Ad Manager count display ads only once they start rendering. Slow-loading ads will now cost publishers counted impressions.

OpenAI and Meta Take Separate Paths to Automating Marketing

OpenAI is building ChatGPT into a marketing workspace and ad channel, while Meta continues automating ad buying. Here's what each has said so far.

Google Ads Adds AI Dashboards and In-Store Sales Tools

Google Ads rolled out prompt-based AI dashboards and new in-store sales measurement tools in early September 2026, per Search Engine Land.

Canva’s AI marketing push is running into “AI slop” governance

Canva’s 2026 survey data and its World Tour playbook point to the same ops shift: scale creative with AI, but prove it’s human-led.

AI assistants are becoming ad space, and brand rules now control what gets published

As ads move into AI assistants, martech teams are racing to measure visibility and keep AI-written content on-brand.

Optimizely’s Forrester Wave nod puts “agentic” experimentation into the vendor shortlists for 2027 web stacks

Optimizely’s Q3 2026 Forrester Wave recognition sharpens procurement questions on agent controls, warehouse-native data paths, and experimentation governance.

Gartner’s 2026 digital marketing Hype Cycle frames AI spend as a governance problem, not a tooling race

Gartner’s 2026 Hype Cycle says CMOs face flat budgets, “answer engines,” and a shift toward autonomous marketing. Operators should treat AI as governed spend.

Meta’s AI-first ad buying is forcing a new operating model for paid social teams

Meta’s latest push toward AI-managed campaign decisions is shifting paid social work from manual optimization to data, governance, and creative throughput.

Rankora and ANJ Digital’s new SEO launches make “GEO” an operational requirement, not a marketing experiment

Two August releases, Rankora’s GEO platform and ANJ Digital’s Power BI-based assessments, are turning LLM visibility into a spec, a score, and a buy decision.

Fractl’s AI visibility index shows 9 in 10 brands track SEO strength, but 471 “blue chips” still vanish in AI answers

Fractl’s analysis finds most brands’ AI recall follows SEO authority, yet 471 high-authority brands rarely appear in LLM answers, shifting focus to third-party

Reddit’s 514.6 million weekly users won’t fix B2B pipeline, but it can fix the message that makes every channel convert

Reddit’s growth into mainstream media plans is real, but the operational win for B2B teams is using subreddits as a live feed of buyer language, objections, and

Global ecommerce is on track to surpass $6 trillion, and enterprise operators are still leaving money on the table

Global ecommerce is closing in on $6 trillion, yet cart abandonment, mobile friction, and slow AI adoption mean most enterprise operators are underperforming th

AI agents are replacing human B2B buyers at the top of the funnel, and most vendor data isn't ready

Autonomous AI agents now handle product research, comparison, and in some cases purchasing on behalf of B2B buyers. Traditional SEO won't get your brand cited.

Agentic B2B buying is making structured data the new homepage

As AI agents take over enterprise product research, your brand's discoverability now depends on data architecture, not design or ad spend.

Reddit's 443.8M weekly users make it a legitimate B2B intent channel that most marketing teams still ignore

B2B marketers are missing problem-led buyer intent signals on Reddit's 443.8M-user platform while chasing job-title targeting on LinkedIn.

OpenAI integrates with AppsFlyer to bring in-app measurement to ChatGPT ads, with Grubhub among 40+ brands in testing

OpenAI is partnering with AppsFlyer to add mobile attribution to ChatGPT ads, giving brands visibility into installs, purchases, and subscriptions.

Google now labels AI-generated ads across Search, YouTube, and Discover

Google's new "created or edited with AI" label in My Ad Center marks the first time the platform requires AI disclosure for commercial ads, not just political o

Nine in 10 B2B marketing leaders now treat AI visibility as an investment priority, but most brands are optimizing for the wrong signals

AI answer engines reward authority, not content volume. B2B marketers still running the classic SEO playbook are accelerating their own invisibility.

84% of B2B marketers pay to rent audiences they don't own, and Breaker says newsletters fix that

Breaker argues B2B brands spending on paid social and sponsored placements build no lasting channel. A newsletter changes that math.

Adobe CMO Lara Balazs says the modern marketing leader must be a perpetual beginner

Adobe's CMO Lara Balazs told Business Insider at Cannes Lions 2026 that today's marketing chiefs must reinvent themselves continuously or fall behind.

AI search is rewriting how authority is measured, and backlinks alone won't keep you ranked

Nearly 70% of marketers say backlinks still heavily impact rankings, but AI platforms are increasingly reading unlinked brand mentions, entity signals, and comm

Google's AI ad machine drove 15% more conversions last quarter, and most marketers aren't copying it

Alphabet's Q2 2026 earnings reveal an AI-rebuilt marketing stack. Here's what enterprise operators need to act on now.

Forbes brought the world's top CMOs to Cannes to confront AI saturation head-on

Global marketing leaders gathered in Cannes for Forbes' World's Most Influential CMOs Summit, tackling AI noise, brand differentiation, and marketing's expandin

RainFocus connects event data directly to Adobe Experience Manager, closing the content supply chain gap for enterprise marketers

RainFocus launches two Adobe Experience Manager integrations that sync event session, speaker, and exhibitor data into AEM and enforce brand governance across g

Most B2B ABM programs stall at execution, and AI-native tools are being built to fix that

Multiply's 10 Minute ABM and B2BMX 2026 sessions reveal a shared diagnosis: B2B teams have ABM strategy but lack the execution infrastructure to run it.

Salesforce's new B2B Commerce suite puts an AI buying agent on WhatsApp and SMS

Salesforce launched a B2B Commerce suite with a native Buyer Agent on Agentforce, intent-driven AI search, and headless APIs to close channel gaps.

B2B influencer marketing hits 85% adoption as brands shift budget toward industry experts

B2B influencer adoption jumped 34% since 2020, with new data on ROI, lead quality, and AI-driven campaign tools reshaping how enterprise marketers allocate budg

AI answer-engine visibility becomes a measurable discipline as GEO platforms multiply in 2026

A new software category around generative engine optimization has matured fast, with eight platforms now competing to tell brands where AI recommends them.

Klaviyo launches Social Marketing to turn Instagram engagement into owned customer data

Klaviyo's new Social Marketing product makes Instagram a fully owned channel, capturing DMs, comments, and tags directly into customer profiles.

Content marketing's eight levers: what the research says about digital brand engagement and sales

A peer-reviewed study breaks down eight content marketing drivers that convert online engagement into measurable sales for digital brands.