Strike Graph was chosen among the top 3% of startups nationwide for AWS and Meta’s “Building with Llama” program to accelerate AI innovation in compliance. Strike Graph, the AI-native compliance management platform, announced that it has been selected as one of only 33 startups nationwide to participate in the AWS Startups: Building with Llama program—a […]

Qlik®, a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), announced it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Data Integration Software Platforms, 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US53001625, October 2025). Qlik believes IDC’s assessment reflects how enterprises are shifting to real-time ingestion and replication, governed self-service access, and […]

Bloomreach, the agentic platform for personalization, introduced Personalized Media in-Grid, a new capability that turns static product grids into intelligent storytelling surfaces — powered by its AI-powered search solution Bloomreach Discovery and amplified through its marketing and conversational shopping solutions. The feature transforms traditional product-listing pages into dynamic, story-driven experiences—showcasing the power of Bloomreach’s connected suite. Personalized Media in-Grid brings the […]

Google will be updating its Unacceptable phone number policy on December 10, 2025 and that update is causing some anxiety for some advertisers. The policy update says that “phone numbers found to be associated with fraudulent activity or with a history of policy violations are unacceptable."

Google has documented a new user agent, a user-triggered fetcher, named Google-Pinpoint. “The Google-Pinpoint fetcher requests individual URLs that Pinpoint users specified as sources for their personal collections of documents," Google posted in its updated documentation.

Google has confirmed it is testing a feature to import campaigns and assets from X and other social networks into your Google Ads campaign. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, confirmed this on LinkedIn yesterday.

Google has updated the review snippet documentation to explain that site owners should avoid using multiple ways of indicating what’s being reviewed, the search company announced. This is to make it clear about how nesting in reviews and aggregate ratings are interpreted and handled by Google Search.

Google has been testing its AI advisor in Google Ads and Analytics since 2023, there were some bugs throughout that testing, promoted the test to the top menu and then Google renamed it Ads Advisor in August. Now, Google announced Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor is rolling out English-language accounts globally in early December.

We are seeing some big movement and volatility in the Google Search results again, this one kicking up more yesterday, November 12th. This may be a continuation of the ongoing Movember update, which I covered over the weekend. But there has been a lot of chatter over the past day or so, and some of the tools spiked over the past 24 hours.

Company recognized for strengths in consent and preference management innovation, and integration flexibility and enterprise automation Transcend, the privacy infrastructure powering the world’s leading brands, was named a Leader in the “IDC MarketScape for ​​​Worldwide Data Privacy Compliance Software 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US53068725, November 2025).” “Unlike first-generation data privacy compliance providers, Transcend fully automates […]