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Why a 2026 marketing shelf needs Byron Sharp more than the latest AI paperback
How Brands Grow refuses to flatter marketers, which is exactly why its findings keep outlasting the trend books.
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Getting spoofed can count toward your bulk-sender threshold — then authentication failur…
Under the 2024 rules, spammer traffic using your domain eats into the same 5,000-message daily cap.
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How DonorsChoose used email to help build a $1.9 billion classroom marketplace
The education nonprofit runs several parallel email tracks instead of one calendar-driven newsletter, matching specific donors to specific classroom…
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Ranking on Google no longer guarantees visibility: firms now compete to be cited by AI a…
AI Overviews, SearchGPT, Gemini and Perplexity are replacing the ten blue links, and Generative Engine Optimization rewards machine-readable, data-ri…
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Google’s AI Overviews correlate with 58% lower click-through rates for top-ranking…
Ahrefs' 2025 study found branded mentions and branded search volume now top the factors driving AI-search visibility.
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A Beverly Hills attorney says 60% of creator brand contracts need editing — and brands a…
CMG Talent's Joey Roesler cites a 2022 deal granting perpetual likeness rights terminable only by the brand.
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Williams-Sonoma’s digital share hit two-thirds as tariffs and mortgage rates thinn…
Home furnishings spend weakened again in Q1 2026, and the survivors are the ones with a distinctive channel, not just a product.
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She still buys the Playtex bra from 2004. Her daughter thinks Playtex makes tampons
One Sacramento household captures the recognition gap heritage intimates cannot close with a media plan.
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Shadow AI drove 43% of breaches last year — and marketing briefs are the entry point
IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach report flags unsanctioned tools as the fastest-growing exposure vector.
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AI Overviews are satisfying the query without the visit, and publisher impressions hold…
How-to guides and definitional pages are being absorbed into the answer at the top of the results page.
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DKIM sat unused for a generation until the cost of forged mail outran the cost of fixing…
A chicken-and-egg standoff between senders and receivers finally broke when business email compromise losses forced the platforms' hand.
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Rakuten has paid shoppers $3.6 billion, and bought a map of their buying lives
The rebate is real; so is the surveillance the portal login and browser extension quietly enable on every routed purchase.
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EEOC signs indefinite settlement shielding qualifying Christian employers in some gender…
The EEOC has signed a perpetual settlement shielding more than 20,000 Christian Employers Alliance members from gender identity discrimination invest…
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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…
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Cutting social media for one week dropped depressive symptoms 24.8 percent in 373 young…
A JAMA Network Open study also found anxiety fell 16 percent and insomnia 14.5 percent over the same week.
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Federal judge blocks New York’s $75 billion climate superfund law, ruling the Clea…
A federal judge blocked New York's $75 billion Climate Change Superfund Act on preemption grounds, but the ruling's narrow legal reasoning leaves the…