2023

What excites me about SEO is that it’s always changing. You can’t stand still – staying ahead is crucial. Small advantages matter in the competitive battle for audience attention. One activation that is seeing growing prominence for brands is user-generated content (UGC). This article tackles UGC and its potential as a driving force for our…

When The Verge published “The people who ruined the internet” on Nov. 1, it caused a shockwave across the search engine optimization (SEO) world. Their writer, Amanda Chicago Lewis, described us in a particularly unflattering way: “So who ends up with a career in SEO? The stereotype is that of a hustler: a content goblin…

TikTok is rolling out a new measurement tool called Engaged View-through Attribution (EVTA) to provide creators with more insights into conversions. When a viewer watches a video ad for over six seconds, it counts as an engaged view. EVTA tracks conversions that occur after a user watches an ad for at least six seconds but…

Meta has previewed two new generative AI tools for video asset creation and picture editing. The projects will eventually be rolled out to Facebook and Instagram, enabling content creators to generate videos and edit in-stream images within seconds using text prompts. Why we care. Instantly generating various video assets and image edits reduces the back-and-forth…

Sam Altman is no longer CEO of OpenAI. Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, has been named interim CEO, the company announced. Why was Altman ousted? Altman was not consistently candid in his communications with the OpenAI’s board of directors, “hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his…

Apple is reportedly pulling all of its adverts from X after Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory. The tech giant has allegedly also been concerned about its products being promoted alongside far-right content, according to Axios. Why we care. As one of X’s longstanding major advertisers, Apple’s move to halt all ads is a…

Instacart is rolling out two new tools to help up-and-coming brands connect with retailers: Digital sell sheets: Instacart’s new sell sheets allow brands to easily and automatically showcase their best products (including platform sales data, product information, and key growth insights) to the platform’s extensive network of more than 1,400 retail banners, directly in Ads…

Google has updated its search quality raters guidelines for the first time in 2023 with a number of updates including simplifying the needs met scale, adding some more modern examples and some other minor changes. The last update to this document was 11 months ago on December 15, 2022, which was a much larger update…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has confirmed that the company pays Apple 36% of its Safari search revenue. The search engine shares this revenue, which is reportedly worth $18 billion, in exchange for default status on all of Apple’s devices. Pichai made the admission while being cross-examined at the Epic Games antitrust trial, after a Google witness…