The FIFA World Cup 2026, co-hosted across North America for the first time, has spelled out what...

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Digiday

Ad Tech Briefing: Corporate America finally buys into soccer as a mainstream sport; shadier elements of the ad industry...

The FIFA World Cup 2026, co-hosted across North America for the first time, has spelled out what some in U.S. media circles have known for some time: association football, or “soccer” to use local parlance, is now big in America, and it’s time for...

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 7, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...

SEMrush Blog

How Cardmarket wins search by knowing its community better than anyone

How Cardmarket built a community-first SEO strategy that drove steady organic growth, stronger AI visibility, and 200% growth in AI-referred sessions.

Marketing Dive

State Farm enlists IShowSpeed to keep season five of gaming series fresh

Reality-competition series “Gamerhood” will integrate Flowcode technology that uses QR codes to connect the brand with consumers.

Distilled

User-controlled algorithms: should you care?

Threads, Instagram, TikTok — one by one, platforms are rolling out tools that let users explicitly tell the algorithm what they want to see. Topic sliders. Interest toggles. Content preference menus. The framing is: users are finally in control.

ON-DEMAND TRAINING

American Marketing Association

Introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This introductory training provides a foundational understanding of search engine optimization and its impact on content visibility.

American Marketing Association

Influencer Marketing

The training offers practical insights from multiple perspectives, including direct creator experiences and case studies. Develop practical skills in crafting compelling marketing briefs, measuring campaign impact, and navigating emerging technologies like AI in the influencer marketing landscape.

Adweek

ADWEEK Launches Agencies Vanguard Membership Program

ADWEEK has launched the Agencies Vanguard membership program for agency executives, an invitation-only club rooted in ADWEEK’s editorial expertise, and designed to provide access, intelligence, influence, and action for C-level agency leaders.

Social Media Examiner

Building Agentic Workflows with Manus

Are you tired of manually copying and pasting data between AI tools? Looking for an agentic AI tool that will pass off multi-step processes to other tools without constant input from you?

Social Media Today

X rolls out updated video editor, including green screen recording

The company also launched multi-language captioning as part of a wider feature rollout.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Console Now Shows You Instagram, TikTok, X & YouTube Content Search Performance

Google Search Console can now show how your social and video content perform within Google Search. This includes channels such as Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube.

Seth Godin Marketing

The Builder’s Creed

A hundred and fifteen years ago, Christian Larson wrote one of the first popular self-help manifestos. The Optimist’s Creed argued that it was a choice, and a useful promise. Not to promise the world, or the boss, or the market. To promise ourselves.

Adweek

Former Fitzco CEO Evan Levy Joins Ammunition to Deepen Client Relationships

Levy returns to the agency world to “be closer to the work”

Digiday

"Brands recognize the cultural dominance of podcasts": global podcaster Mel Robbins talks AI, ad budgets and audience...