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Adweek

YouTube Reveals Upfront Event Details, Including Trevor Noah and Chappell Roan

Adweek

2026 NFL Draft Ad Looks to Smash Expectations With 2 Steelers Legends

Cam Heyward and Jerome Bettis star in 'Smash the Glass,' a new ad touting the 2026 Draft.

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 1, 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.Going offline for Passover tonight through Saturday night...

Chief Marketer

30 Days to AI Search Visibility: The GEO Playbook PR Leaders Need Now

We break down a simple, effective strategy for picking topics, creating authoritative content and securing placements that drive real AI search and GEO results.

Buffer

Social Media Engagement: 9 Ways to Boost Yours + Why it Matters

Picture this: You’re demonstrating your products or services at a kiosk — its benefits, use cases, social proof, all that jazz. You know your offer …

ON-DEMAND TRAINING

American Marketing Association

Social Media Strategy and Proving ROI

Incorporate the latest platform trends for an effective campaign that delivers results and track them using attribution tools to create a comprehensive report.

American Marketing Association

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Marketing Professionals

This course covers the phases of AI, such as rule-based AI, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI, to provide a solid foundation of AI principles. Learn the impact of AI systems and how to leverage these tools to perform marketing tasks such as persona development, search engine optimization (SEO), and content generation and personalization.

Digiday

Digiday+ Research: How Dow Jones, Forbes, The Guardian and other publisher revenue streams are shifting in 2026

Digiday+ Research’s third annual report on publishers’ revenues examines the current and future state of the group’s revenue streams, from traditional ad revenue to events and subscriptions.

Digiday

Future of TV Briefing: What publishers have to offer creators

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at what publishers have to offer creators as more media outlets enlist independent video makers.

Kickbox Blog

We Made G2’s 2026 Best Software Awards

We made G2’s 2026 Best Software Awards: ranking #37 and standing as the top represented email verification solution on the list. Here’s what this recognition means and how customers made it happen.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Explains Googlebot Crawling, Fetching & Byte Limits

Google posted a new blog post named Inside Googlebot: demystifying crawling, fetching, and the bytes we process alongside episode 105 of the Search Off the Record segment named Google crawlers behind the scenes.

Brian Solis

Beyond Digital Transformation, The AI-First Business Revolution

via Avasant As companies worldwide grapple with AI implementation, a critical gap has emerged between executive ambitions and organizational reality, revealing the urgent need for a fundamental shift in how we approach AI-driven change.

Marketing Dive

Albertsons on its ChatGPT ads test and push for retail media transparency

Liz Roche, VP of media and measurement at Albertsons Media Collective, discussed the strategic thinking behind its AI experiment at the NewFronts.

CMSWire

Unifying Creator and Social Media Strategies with CreatorIQ and Sprinklr

Gaining insights into social media and creator content used to require multiple platforms, which is impractical at scale. A new partnership aims to change that.Continue reading...

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