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Here we are over two decades into the 2000s, but bad B2B content marketing still exists. Digital content marketing has existed for at least 10 years, but some businesses still make elementary mistakes that wreck their potential for results. That’s a shame because most content marketers (71%) will tell you that content has only become

Google will look much different in 2033 – where conversation is the interface rather than the search box. That’s according to Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of DeepMind (which Google bought in 2014), in an interview on the No Priors Podcast. Why we care. ChatGPT, the new Bing and Google’s new Search Generative Experience are all huge signals

Google opened access to its new Search Generative Experience and today – and our own Barry Schwartz is one of the first to gain access. Although he had to head offline for the holiday of Shavuot, he was able to share several tweets with images from his early testing. I’ve compiled most of those in

The “New Business Guide to Google Reviews” by GatherUp is an essential resource for growing businesses looking to attract more customers through the power of Google search. This comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to claim and optimize your Google My Business profile, how to solicit and respond to customer reviews, and how to

A real emphasis has been placed on the collection of first-party data. Pairing a first-party data strategy with a one-to-one marketing strategy will help your teams remain aligned to ensure messages are both targeted and personalized. This needs to happen from the very first interaction at the point of ingestion. Join data experts as they

Paid search advertising and SEO are among the channels most likely to have reduced investment in 2023, according to Gartner’s latest CMO Spend and Strategy survey. But it’s not all bad news for search marketing. Search advertising. Although 26% of CMOs planned to reduce their investment in paid search, 40% of CMOs said they plan to

ChatGPT is now available as an iOS app. The app is free and offers all the features you’ll find on the web version. Why we care. ChatGPT has become an essential and popular tool for several SEOs, search marketers and content creators. Now you can use it whenever and wherever you want, all while maintaining

Non-skippable ads are coming to YouTube Select on connected TV. This means that viewers will see one 30-second ad instead of two consecutive 15-second ads. Why we care. YouTube was the most popular U.S. video streaming platform in April and watch time increased, according to Nielsen. It remains to be seen whether a non-skippable 30-second

Instacart made $740 million in ad revenue in 2022, a 30% increase over 2021. Surging ad business. The Information reported: “The grocery-delivery firm’s ad revenue totaled about $740 million last year, up 30% from 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter. That’s a striking increase, given that the digital ad market was largely

Advertisers and YouTube creators may benefit from new AI solutions Google is reportedly working on. Google Ads. Generative AI tools, powered by PaLM 2, will help advertisers create media assets, CNBC reported, based on internal Google documents. Unfortunately, that’s as much detail as we know for now. We’ve previously reported that generative AI is coming

Meta is starting to issue refunds to advertisers impacted by a glitch last month that resulted in overspending and higher than usual CPAs. Why we care. Meta needs to make this right for all of its advertisers of all sizes. It’s good that the refunds are starting, but it’s been over a month and this

Amazon continues to be the most popular starting point for online shoppers with one exception – Gen Z, according to a new survey. Why we care. Nearly all consumers research purchases online and rely heavily on ratings and reviews. So it remains absolutely critical to be visible on any relevant platforms at moments when shoppers

Google Bard has added classic and more genuine citations to the answers it provides and also is able to provide better summarization. We do not yet see these improvements and enhancements live yet but Jack Krawczyk from Google shared some examples on Twitter. Citations improved. Google Bard now shows sources with numbers, like true citations,

Elon Musk today announced that Linda Yaccarino will be the next Twitter CEO. The announcement. Musk tweeted the news, adding that Yaccarino would “focus primarily on business operations.” Musk will focus on product design and new technology. Musk added: “Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app.” Twitter

Microsoft announced a number of new features that have been added to Bing Chat this week, including images within answers, optimized knowledge answers and more. “Some of these features may appear temporarily in your Bing chat experience as we experiment with them,” the Bing team wrote. Let’s dig in. Image answers with knowledge cards. Bing

Has your list of followers on LinkedIn changed? If so, it’s because LinkedIn said it is now removing “hibernated” and “restricted” accounts from the connection and follower counts of all members and will continue to regularly do so heading forward. New Help documentation. LinkedIn has added new Restricted and hibernated account filtering Help documentation. It

Despite having gotten the jump on Google when it launched the new Bing, featuring its own generative search experience fueled by GPT-4, data shows Microsoft has failed to gain market share. In fact, if the latest numbers from StatCounter are directionally accurate, it appears Bing is actually losing market share to Google. Why we care.

Google will roll out a new update for the helpful content system in the coming months. This update will allow Google Search to “more deeply understands content created from a personal or expert point of view,” the company wrote. What is changing. Google said: “We’re also improving how we rank results in Search overall, with