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Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 2, 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...

Digiday

Amid falling traffic, publishers are investing in engagement, registration and citations

Michael Silberman, evp, media strategy, Piano As consumer use of AI search accelerates, publishers are seeing precipitous traffic declines.

Search Engine Roundtable

Microsoft: AI Summarizes Results, Reducing Clicks & Website Visits

James Murray, Global Product Storytelling Lead, Generative AI at Microsoft, gave a webinar named How to successfully navigate the human, LLM, and agentic web last week. He had a slide come up at about the 9 minute and 30 second mark that reads...

The Ahrefs Blog

The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Gemini (June 2026)

Google has folded Gemini into Search, Android, Chrome, and Workspace, and the audience has grown fast: on Alphabet’s Q4 2025 earnings call, Sundar Pichai said the Gemini app had passed 750 million monthly active users, up from 650 million a…Read more ›

The Ahrefs Blog

The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Perplexity (June 2026)

Unlike a general chatbot, Perplexity is an answer engine first: it was designed to respond to questions with linked references up front. That model has found a real audience, with the company reporting hundreds of millions of queries a month…Read more ›

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American Marketing Association

Data Visualization & Storytelling

Leave this workshop thinking differently about how to communicate with data and armed with some tangible techniques to do so immediately.

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.

Social Media Today

Meta hires Snap director of global content partnerships

Jim Shepherd, who oversaw Snap’s celebrity relations and editorial strategy, will now help with Meta’s artificial intelligence device push, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Adweek

Why the Industry Needs to Stop Talking About Neutrality

In an AI-enabled world, transparency is the most important lever in adtech

Chief Marketer

Digital Advertising Needs Guardrails For AI

The biggest AI risk in digital advertising is probably not the one most people are talking about. It’s not creative generation. It’s not job replacement. It’s not whether AI can optimize campaigns faster than humans.

Distilled

Meta’s CTV Play: What It Really Means for Advertisers

In late 2025, Meta quietly launched Reels TV, bringing Instagram content onto the living room screen. Most people wrote it off as a novelty.

Digiday

ChatGPT ad delivery struggles are testing advertiser patience

OpenAI's ChatGPT ad pilot faces under-delivery and other reporting issues, ultimately testing marketers' patience.

Distilled

LinkedIn’s Latest Data: The New Rules of B2B Targeting

We came away from LinkedIn’s Indie Summit last week with one number we can’t stop thinking about: 40% of B2B deals are lost to indecision, not to a competitor winning. The first instinct is to treat that as a product problem or a pricing problem.

CMSWire

Figma Make Brings Visual Editing to Live Codebases

Designers can now modify production code directly from Figma, blurring the line between design tools and engineering workflows.Continue reading...