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...

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.

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.

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.

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Introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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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

Bright Side: The Supergoop! Playbook for Turning Sun Care Into a Cultural Movement

CMO Lauren Weinberg on how a tech-forward approach to marketing is driving the next era of skin health.

Digiday

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

Mel Robbins is one of the world’s most listened-to podcasters, and the woman behind the “Let Them” theory — the simple idea about relinquishing …

Social Media Today

WhatsApp adds green dot live status indicators

The feature replaces a previous text label and is available in iOS and Android.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google AdSense Expert Personalized Advice

Google AdSense may have added a new setting that lets you specify if you want Google AdSense "experts" to call you offering "personalized advice." You can specify if you want or do not want messages, and how - i.e.

Social Media Today

YouTube expands access to supervised kid accounts

The platform has extended its parental oversight for younger children to the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.

SEMrush Blog

Google research reveals pattern-level AI video spam detection

New Google research catches AI video spam by clustering accounts, not single videos. See what it signals.

Adweek

Turning Cultural Moments Into Measurable Growth with TikTok and Keurig Dr Pepper