Google’s Meridian And Meta’s Robyn: A Gift To Measurement Or Trojan Horses?

Google and Meta are quietly rewriting the rules of ad measurement, and they’re doing it with open-source marketing mix modeling (MMM) tools that many marketers don’t even realize they’re using. MMM is a method for measuring the relative performance of different marketing channels. It fell out of favor because it takes a long time and [...]

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This New Training Framework Gives Publishers A Say In How AI Uses Their Work

For publishers, getting cited in AI chatbot responses isn’t enough. They also want those answers to reflect their editorial judgment and the culture of the communities they cover. A new initiative called SAIL – which stands for Standardized Agentic Intelligence Ledger – aims to do both, compensating publishers when AI scrapes their content and guaranteeing [...]

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AI Is Spreading Inaccurate Information About Brands. This Tool Can Help Fix That

There’s an old adage that all press is good press – but, as pretty much any marketer can tell you, that isn’t always true. As more consumers turn to AI for conducting product research, brands need to pay attention to not just when they’re showing up in the results but how. Sentiment and accuracy should [...]

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The 4 Marketing Decisions That Seem Smart, But That Can Weaken Great Brands

Bad strategies often arrive disguised as good marketing: agility, consumer centricity, creativity, or financial discipline.

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Book Publishers Sue Google Over AI Training, Escalating a Legal Standoff

Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier allege that Gemini was built on pirated books, an allegation that comes as web publishers weigh abandoning Google Search altogether.

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Shinola Puts Succession’s Nicholas Braun Behind the Camera for a Meditation on Time

Shinola's "The Restaurant," directed by Nicholas Braun, explores how people experience time and how to reclaim it.

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