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.
Microsoft says SEOs need to do the click studies to see if AI search clicks lead to conversions or not…

Circana LLC released new Circana Compass insights, providing a detailed review of 2025 global retail food and beverage (F&B) industry performance and a forward-looking outlook for 2026. 2025 Global Trends Confirm Projections  Circana’s 2024 projection anticipated U.S. F&B industry dollar sales growth between 2% and 4% for 2025, driven by price/mix increases of 1.5% to […]

AdGood, a nonprofit organization revolutionizing access to Connected TV (CTV) advertising for mission-driven organizations, proudly announces a new partnership with A+E Global Media, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies. Through this groundbreaking collaboration, A+E Global Media will donate premium CTV advertising inventory to support nonprofit organizations across the country. This partnership enables […]

Opportunities to engage female consumers revolve around spruce-up spending and female-focused products putting them front-and-center. Female consumers accounted for 59% of U.S. retail discretionary general merchandise spending over the past year. During the first half of 2025, as discretionary spending has been challenged by elevated prices across retail food and beverage, non-edible consumer packaged goods, […]

 New Engen, a leading digital marketing agency, announced the launch of Trend Chef, an AI-powered web app that generates TikTok-ready creative concepts from trending formats. Trend Chef marks a major step in New Engen’s mission to help brands and creators stay ahead of cultural shifts and produce platform-native content that resonates with audiences. The tool is trained […]

Acquisition accelerates Landbase’s inbound roadmap with new signal-driven publishing capabilities that unify outbound and inbound in a single GTM platform Landbase, the agentic AI company transforming how businesses grow, announced its acquisition of Adauris, the startup creating custom intent signals through content generation, leveraged by B2B companies to identify, engage, and convert high-intent leads through […]

MarTech Breakthrough recognizes Azira for delivering high-precision, high-impact campaigns across mobile, CTV, and desktop Azira, a global consumer insights platform, announced it has been named the “Best Location Based Marketing Platform” in the 8th annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards, underscoring the company’s innovation in real-world location data and omnichannel marketing performance. The MarTech Breakthrough Awards spotlight […]

New no-code workflows powered by RiskOS™ deliver fast, flexible age verification tailored to jurisdictional laws and risk thresholds designed to help businesses balance compliance, user privacy, and access for legitimate users Socure, the leading provider of artificial intelligence for digital identity verification, sanctions screening, and fraud prevention, announced the launch of its next-generation Age Assurance solutions, which […]

New integration bridges 8×8 Platform for CX with core banking systems, enabling smarter, faster, and safer customer experiences 8×8, Inc. , the industry’s most integrated platform provider for customer experience (CX), welcomes MNET to the SellWith8 tier of the 8×8 Technology Partner Ecosystem. This new partnership brings MNET’s CoreAccess+ middleware to the 8×8 Platform for CX, including 8×8 […]

AI-Powered Platform Driving Real-Time Customer Engagement Across 50+ Languages ECGI Holdings announced that its investment arm, Uplist Ventures, has closed a strategic investment in AuraChat.ai, an award-winning sales and marketing automation platform using over 25 proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) models. The deal comes ahead of AuraChat’s planned September 2025 launch of its competitive-intelligence upgrade, AuraConnect™ […]