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Upper-Funnel Marketing Finally Has Proof: What Google's Attributed Branded Searches Feature Means for Marketers
When’s the last time your performance strategy created demand?
What Google's New Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Means for Marketers
Think about how Amazon delivers ads today. If you search for a product and the brand you want isn’t there, you don’t get something irrelevant. You get the next …
Query Intent Drives a 5X Gap in Financial AI Overviews
Key Takeaways We hypothesized that Google AIOs appear less often for “higher stakes” finance topics — this was not the case Instead, we found AIO presence of fi…
The Listicle Window Is Closing in AI Search: 30% Decline MoM
Self-serving listicles have been one of the most visible and prevalent tactics for brands to gain visibility and citations in AI Search.
How Marketers Must Prepare for Agentic Commerce in 2026
TL;DR: There are actionable steps marketers can take today to prepare for agentic commerce Agentic commerce will impact all commercial activity on the Internet,…
What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) & How Does It Impact SEO?
This post was originally published in August 2024 and refreshed in February 2026. It’s Just Modern SEO — or Is It? Generative AI search is changing the way peop…
Dear Analyst: I have 10 questions a day & only ask you 1. With AI, I answer all 10 without you, it's time for a career convo.
Note: This is intended to be a real, raw, honest post. Not full of doom and gloom, but of what you need to do when your C-levels and VPs read posts like these. …
An Olympic-Sized View into How LLMs Actually Think
Live GEO Olympics Winter 2026 Results See what AI thinks before AI shapes what everyone else thinks. Finding Status Link Citation Authority Collecting Data... […
What Marketers Should Know About AI in the Ecommerce & Advertising Landscape: Q1 2026
Key Takeaways OpenAI will introduce advertising, giving ecommerce brands new ground to test out Google now allows brands to surface offers directly in AI Mode’s…
Identifying Signal from Noise: 6 Ways to Leverage Query Fan Outs for AI Search Strategy
Query fan-outs are one of the most talked-about elements in AI-Search, which makes sense considering the level of insight they can give us into why AI models me…