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Wendy's named Tariq Hassan chief marketing and customer growth officer as same-store sales fall for a sixth straight quarter. The diagnosis behind the hire is more interesting than the hire.
Search volume tells you what people search for, never why. Here is how to build content briefs from customer situations using the 7 W's, and how to prove the approach works.
A Google Business Profile suspension becomes a revenue problem fast, and recovery advice alone is not enough. Here is a four-part continuity plan: preserve, recover, replace, reduce.
The hard part of an AI content workflow is not generating an article, it is defining what the finished piece must look like. Here is the agent structure, inputs and review gates that get there.
New research on AI search optimization terminology: 81% of marketers still say SEO, budgets already sit at 24%, and terminology fluency ranks last as a credibility signal at just 9%.
The X Ads MCP server lets advertisers connect campaign data to Claude, ChatGPT or Grok and query it in natural language. Here is what the platform-wide MCP shift is actually worth.
Meta smart glasses privacy backlash now includes a criminal complaint, restaurant and theater bans, and detection apps with 100K downloads. Sales tripled anyway — here is what marketers should read into it.
Fanta's Halloween marketing shifts from campaign to owned IP with the Haunted Universe. Here is the strategy behind 10 billion impressions and what seasonal brand platforms actually compound.
Publicis Sports launched Tekta with NFL star Travis Kelce and 3 Arts Sports to sell NIL activation with unified measurement. Here is what the $4.5B college athlete market still gets wrong.
The Google Tag Manager unification upgrades Google tags into full GTM containers and adds visual, no-code event tracking. Here is what changes in your conversion measurement setup.
Google Local Services Ads categories got far more granular across restaurants, automotive and beauty, just as LSA management starts moving into Google Ads through 2027. Here is what local advertisers should fix now.
ChatGPT Ads automated bidding arrives as Maximize results, alongside iOS/Android/Web platform targeting and one-day view-through conversion reporting. Here is what advertisers should check first.
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