New ON24 and LinkedIn collaboration will simplify event creation and promotion, expand audience targeting and reach, and deliver measurable impact for marketing, sales, and business teams worldwide ON24 , the leading customer engagement platform for B2B sales and marketing, announces an integration with LinkedIn that helps B2B marketers and other customer-facing teams move beyond standalone […]

The toolkit includes five free generators — for calligraphy signatures, countdown timers, scrolling text, image slideshows, and email subject lines — helping brands design polished, high-converting emails without technical skills. Getsitecontrol has released five free tools for email marketing to help small businesses create polished, high-converting emails — no design or coding required. High-quality email […]

Smartly’s 2026 Digital Trends Report finds 92% of marketers say AI is transforming engagement as video and CTV strategies become key to competitive advantage Smartly, the leading AI-powered advertising technology platform, released its seventh annual Digital Trends Report, revealing that 2026 will mark a new era of predictive marketing where AI turns the funnel into […]

New Customer Engagement Bundle introduces advanced queue management and SMS shared inbox capabilities to power lightweight contact centers RingCentral, Inc. , a global leader in AI-powered business communications, announced new offerings that capture growing customer engagement demand at the intersection of Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) for […]

Utah-based Startup Unites AI Speed and Proven Learning Science to Deliver Better Training, 12 Times Faster Mindsmith, the AI-native e-learning platform that combines the speed of artificial intelligence with modern learning science, announced a $4.1 million seed funding round to accelerate its mission of transforming corporate learning. The round was led by Next Frontier Capital, […]

When marketing and technology clash, SEO and site performance suffer. Bill Hunt outlines how to unify both for long-term digital resilience.
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Building on agency-wide AI momentum, PAN expands its expertise to guide brands through a new era of discovery. PAN, a global, integrated, data-driven marketing and PR firm for B2B tech and healthcare brands, announces its new AI Optimization service line — driven by brands’ growing demand for AI visibility — as well as the appointment […]

Google added a new promotion method in Google Merchant Center for Top-performing products. This lets you just promote your best performing products in Google Shopping and Google Search.

Google is testing a new version of AI Mode responses in the wild, directly in the Google Search AI Mode interface. Google even tells the searcher, “You’re giving feedback on a new version of Al Mode. Which response do you prefer?"

Earlier this year, we covered that Google’s AI Overviews are killing click-through rates from the Google Search results. Well, Seer Interactive updated the numbers and that CTR decline has continued to decline and get even worse.