We surveyed 2,338 US consumers: 65% of AI users have replaced some product-related Google searches...
We surveyed 2,338 US consumers: 65% of AI users have replaced some product-related Google searches...
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SEMrush Blog
AI chatbots talked 57.5% of AI users out of buying
We surveyed 2,338 US consumers: 65% of AI users have replaced some product-related Google searches with chatbots, and 4 in 10 dislike chatbot ads.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 7, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
 
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Shopping Ads Have A Reverse Crocodile Effect With AI Overviews
Since Google added AI Overviews to Google Search, many of us have been experiencing what some call the crocodile effect, also known as the great decoupling. But according to new data, the opposite may be happening with Google Shopping Ads.
 
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BrandCulture
AI Has Democratized Design, but Taste Remains Priceless
AI has made creating brands easier than ever. But when everyone can produce polished work with a prompt, distinctive design becomes more valuable, not less. Human judgment and a strong point of view remain essential to brands that stand apart.
 
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Brain Pickings
The True Purpose of Tarot
“Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again,” a friend said to me about a lucky turn of events — a statement that struck me as touchingly self-negating: a recognition that life has violated her predictions about what is...
 
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Seth's Blog
The reality of sunk costs
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect
 
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Marketing Tech
Hoka turns Strava running data into digital out-of-home advertising
Hoka has launched a New York campaign that uses running activity recorded on Strava as part of its digital out-of-home advertising.
 
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EVENTS & LIVE TRAINING
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American Marketing Association
Meta Ads in 2026: AI, Advantage+ and What’s Actually Working

Running Meta ads used to feel more straightforward. Now there are AI-driven tools to learn, privacy changes to work around, and a platform that looks different than it did 18 months ago. If you’ve been patching together what you know or avoiding Ads Manager altogether, two hours can close a lot of ground.

This workshop walks you through how Meta advertising has changed and what is working right now. You’ll get up to speed on Advantage+ campaigns, understand how to use AI-assisted tools for copy, creative, and predictive testing, and learn how to set up the Conversions API so your measurement holds up in a privacy-first environment.

 
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American Marketing Association
Measure What Matters in Content Marketing

Good content measurement doesn’t start with a dashboard. It starts with a clear agreement on what you’re actually trying to learn and who on your team is responsible for acting on it.

This workshop helps you build exactly that. You’ll work through how to identify the metrics that reflect your real content goals, how to extract insights that make your segmentation sharper and your personalization more relevant, and how to draw a straight line from your content program to your lead generation and nurture results.

 
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American Marketing Association
Build a Brand Voice That Scales

You know your brand has a personality. Getting your whole team to express it consistently across all channels is a different problem entirely. This session gives you a practical system for closing that gap.

Learn to define your brand’s core personality traits, translate them into clear content standards, and build the kind of voice documentation that content creators can reference without asking you what you meant.

 
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American Marketing Association
Digital Marketing Copywriting – October 2026
This small-group online training will help you build your writing skills by exploring the latest techniques and best practices in copywriting for the web (specifically social media, blogs, and email). Uncover the technical foundations and the creative instincts that make good writing repeatable across platforms.
 
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