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Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 21, 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.Google says when it comes to SEO...

Fortune

Meet Blackstone’s ‘accidental influencer’ who made LinkedIn jogs Wall Street’s mustwatch content

Blackstone COO Jon Gray is jogging his way to internet virality, and other C-suite executives are taking note.

CMSWire

Anthropic Labs Launches Claude Design Tool for Visual Prototyping

Claude Design targets designers, product managers and marketers with AI-powered prototyping, decks and marketing assets.Continue reading...

Adweek

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Deck Reveals StackAdapt’s Playbook for ChatGPT Ads

The DSP dangles ChatGPT ad placement driven by prompt relevance and CPMs range from $15 to $60, with a $50,000 minimum spend required for the pilot.

Adweek

Beats and Jennie Are Back Together With an Unreleased Song and New Headphones

K-pop superstar Jennie's latest Beats collab features an exclusive track, new headphones, and a pop-up for fans.

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.

Social Media Today

Meta plans large-scale job cuts beginning in May, says Reuters

The company is reportedly looking to reduce its global workforce by about 10%, or approximately 8,000 people, as it increases its reliance on artificial intelligence.

Marketing Tech

Choosing an email marketing platform to consolidate tech stacks

Marketing teams face increasing pressure to deliver results while managing a growing number of tools.

Fortune

Nike’s ‘Walkers Tolerated’ sign at the Boston Marathon was meant to fire up runners. Instead, it insulted them.

The sign sparked a backlash that reveals deeper problems for the brand.

Marketing Tech

Email ROI claims meet a more complicated reality

Email marketing still carries one of the strongest reputations in digital marketing, with some commentators claiming it provides a 40x return on the investment placed into the tool cost and labour required.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Console Performance Report Job Listings Reporting Bug

Google Search Console seems to have a bug with the performance report, specific to the jobs listing and jobs search appearance filter. The report is showing zero impressions and clicks since the 16th of this month.

Chief Marketer

AI Is The New Ad Space

Debra Aho Williamson will be keynoting AdExchanger’s Programmatic AI event, taking place in Las Vegas from May 18-20. Click here to learn more and get your ticket. AdExchanger readers get $200 off when they use the code PAI200.

Search Engine Watch

How to use digital PR and cross-channel data to amplify organic growth

In the brand vs performance marketing debate, why digital PR is a great route to drive SEO, increase ROI, and build brand