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Google’s AI Overviews correlate with 58% lower click-through rates for top-ranking pag…
Ahrefs' 2025 study found branded mentions and branded search volume now top the factors driving AI-search visibility.
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Digital advertising measurement has become more precise and less trustworthy at the same time. Every impression is counted; what each is worth is a question the industry has quietly stopped answering with a straight face.
Platforms grade their own homework, retail media networks report their own performance, and marketers assume that more dashboards mean more clarity. The tools have multiplied faster than the honesty about what they can and cannot prove.
ROI in 2026 is not a single number from a single tool. It is a triangulation across independent methods, and the teams that accept that ambiguity make better decisions than the teams still hunting for one dashboard that tells the truth.
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Local consequences
Public decisions measured by who pays, who benefits, and what changes for the people living there.
Local Consequences
Bulloch County, Georgia did not reject a data center ban on August 4: commissioners tabl…
Coverage framing the August outcome as a defeat missed that the ban amendment was only postponed for roughly 30 days at the elected board's own reque…
Local Consequences
The Ohio Supreme Court just ordered Trenton to put a citizen data center ban on a specia…
Local Consequences
Dougherty County, Georgia just extended its data center moratorium another 180 days on a…
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Meta fired thousands, then bought back billions
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The same method, turned inward
Diagnostic by DMNews names the pattern underneath the behavior. The free assessment finds the one you have been running without noticing.