Connected TV advertising broke records after ad spend reached $1 billion in June, according to a report by ad-research company Vivvix, formerly known as Kantar. Growth categories included household supplies and beverages – which rocketed by more than 300% year-over-year. Meanwhile, verticals like pets, cosmetics and beauty didn’t trend as highly (even as the report…
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. I know the Google August core update is done, but we are still seeing significant volatility days later. I posted a large interview with Google’s Danny Sullivan…
Google will soon block Bard’s shared conversations from appearing in Google Search. Google Bard recently came out with shared conversations that let users publicly share the chats they had with Bard. Soon after Google Search started to discover those URLs, crawl them, and index them. The issue. Gagan Ghotra posted on X a screenshot showing…
For years, CTV and linear television have been battling it out for viewership numbers. And it looks like CTV is coming out on top. Seeking more flexibility and lower costs, consumers have cut cords en masse, resulting in CTV viewership surpassing linear. With ~230 million users in the U.S. alone, CTV offers a clear opportunity…
The convergence of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) is setting the stage for revolutionary changes in how brands engage with consumers. Traditional marketing methods are struggling to keep pace with the heightened expectations of modern consumers and rapid technological advancements. Print, television, direct mail, telemarketing — these all have their place in brand marketing,…
Add Search Engine Land to your Google News feed. New on Search Engine Land About the author Cynthia Ramsaran is director of custom content at Third Door Media, publishers of Search Engine Land and MarTech. A multi-channel storyteller with over two decades of editorial/content marketing experience, Cynthia’s expertise spans the marketing, technology, finance, manufacturing and…
Google has upgraded its Google Analytics, GA4, real time reports to show users in last 5 minutes. It previously showed users in last 30 minutes and now it shows both users in last 5 minutes and users in last 30 minutes. The old Universal Analytics tool showed real-time metrics based on the last 5 minutes,…
It seems that YouTube is not showing up in Google News as often as it use to. Will Flannigan, the SEO Editor at the Wall Street Journal posted a chart from The Trisolute News Dashboard showing the drop in visibility experienced by YouTube in Google News. This means that YouTube videos and results are not…
In a world where even your toaster wants to discuss AI over breakfast, SEO professionals are currently mastering how to integrate it into their strategies – especially their content strategies. For those who are still trying to grasp the concept of how AI and SEO can work synergistically for content, this article is for you….
Google updated its search performance report within Google Search Console to include a breakdown of your merchant listings within the Google Search Image tab. This means you can now see how well your merchant listings are performing when a searcher clicks on the image tab within the Google Search results. What it looks like. Google…