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New features empower marketers to increase conversions, improve ROI, and target audiences more precisely by understanding the full customer journey Amplitude, Inc., the leading digital analytics platform, launched new capabilities that bring marketing and product data together to help marketers optimize every dollar, channel, and campaign. Now, teams can easily see what drives conversions and […]

Newton joins Hyland amid the company’s innovation-driven transformation of enterprise content management Hyland, the pioneer of Content Innovation Cloud™, names John Newton as the company’s Chief Innovation Strategist. Newton, who co-founded Documentum and Alfresco, brings 35 years of content management experience and will collaborate with the Hyland leadership team to advance the company’s AI, cloud and open-source innovations. He […]

GoDaddy Consumer Pulse highlights ways younger shoppers bend the rules in commerce A new survey by GoDaddy found the latest quirky shopping habits Gen Z and Millennials have adopted are changing the landscape of commerce — with some possibly unintended consequences. In the latest GoDaddy Consumer Pulse* survey of 1,500 U.S. consumers, half of Gen Z […]

Is your close just as strong as your open? — Mike Martin (@MikeMartinGB) May 14, 2025 from Twitter https://twitter.com/MikeMartinGB May 14, 2025 at 01:55PM

Users are rethinking their search habits in response to rising privacy concerns and the growing influence of AI in mainstream search engines.
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Google is also testing a new pagination bar with page numbers and previous and next icons, instead of the “more search results" button. Bing was recently just testing this too and now I see Google testing it.

Remember the Power Pair from Google Marketing Live 2024? Well, that and several other items of discussion were found in internal emails at Google about the GML 2024 event. It discussed how advertisers were not excited about PMax, there is frustration amongst advertisers, being pushed into fully automated ads and they are just willing to go along with it.

Microsoft is going to do away with the Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs as of August 11, 2025. Microsoft posted a notice on its API documentation pages with this news.

Google is rolling out a new feature for Google Business Profiles named What’s Happening. This feature is for bars or restaurants to better promote events, deals, and specials prominently at the top of their Google Business Profile.

Google is testing adding the ability for you to add your own annotations to the Google Search Console performance reports. This is one of the requests SEOs have been asking for from Google for a long time and now Google is testing this in Search Console.