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Thursday, February 26, 2026

Adweek

DoorDash’s Toby Espinosa on Commerce Media That Connects National Dollars to Local Demand

Social Media Today

LinkedIn ID verification partner Persona under fire for security concerns

A researcher from The Local Stack reported potential data collection questions, leading companies including Discord to reevaluate the system.

Search Engine Roundtable

Anthropic Updates Crawler Docs: ClaudeBot, Claude-User & SearchBot

Anthropic updates its crawler documentation explaining what its crawlers do, and what blocking them will result in. Anthropic has three primary bots and they include ClaudeBot, Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot.

Search Engine Roundtable

Careful With Google Business Profile Verification Flow

Some time ago, Google updated the flow for the Google Business Profile verification. And the issue is, if you fill it out wrong, it can have consequences for that Google business listing in the future.

Harvard Business Review

When to Open Up at Work—and When Not To

Research shows that leaders tend to reveal too little about themselves, eroding employee trust.

ON-DEMAND TRAINING

American Marketing Association

Brand Strategy 101

Learn how brand commitment, brand voice, design and implementation create the impactful brand strategy you need.

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.

Marketing Dive

IHOP promotes pancakes with low-tech aesthetics, experiential play

In a tie-up with musician Mr. Fantasy, the chain is plastering high-traffic areas with old-school flyers reminiscent of the early internet aesthetic.

Social Media Today

Meta signs long-term supply deal with AMD for AI hardware

The partnership builds on the companies’ existing collaboration and will help expand Meta’s compute power.

Adweek

Liquid Death and Spotify Want to be the Soundtrack to Your Afterlife

Liquid Death's latest collab is a Bluetooth-enabled urn that turns your Spotify listening habits into a personalized post-life playlist.

Marketing Tech

DMWF Spotlight: Want to supercharge your results? Here’s the secret digital marketers need to know

What if I told you there was a way that you could supercharge your results and make your digital marketing spend even more effective? Building fame and capturing attention is what JCDecaux does best.

Hubspot

Marketing experiments every growth team should run

Every reliable tactic marketers now love, from video content to email marketing and blogging, was once a new experiment that early adopters tested and developed.

For Momentum

Strengthening the Pipeline: Proactive Outreach

Here are a few ways your partnership sales team can develop their outreach process to be more proactive.

Digiday