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People who overexplain themselves in emails aren’t being thorough — they may be pre-empting a criticism…
Some work emails are much longer than the task requires.
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Analysis
Why a 2026 marketing shelf needs Byron Sharp more than the latest AI paperback
A decade on, that shelf has become a liability.
Digital
Getting spoofed can count toward your bulk-sender threshold — then authentication…
The 5,000-message figure in Gmail’s sender rules is not a daily quota.
Analysis
How DonorsChoose used email to help build a $1.9 billion classroom marketplace
An August 2026 survey release said the organization had raised $1.9 billion for classrooms since its founding in 2000.
Analysis
Ranking on Google no longer guarantees visibility: firms now compete to be cited by AI…
The milestone is real.
Analysis
Google’s AI Overviews correlate with 58% lower click-through rates for…
Advertising’s most famous measurement complaint is more complicated than the industry folklore suggests.
Digital
A Beverly Hills attorney says 60% of creator brand contracts need editing — and brands…
The figures come from Joey Roesler, the attorney-founder of CMG Talent, rather than from an industry-wide audit.
Analysis
Williams-Sonoma’s digital share hit two-thirds as tariffs and mortgage rates…
Before the pandemic, Williams-Sonoma's revenue was split almost evenly between its stores and its website.
Analysis
She still buys the Playtex bra from 2004. Her daughter thinks Playtex makes tampons
Playtex bras and Playtex tampons are not, technically, made by the same company.
Analysis
Shadow AI drove 43% of breaches last year — and marketing briefs are the entry point
The comeback narrative gets told as a technological one — better AI, smarter segmentation, richer data.
Analysis
AI Overviews are satisfying the query without the visit, and publisher impressions hold…
Search in 2026 is less predictable for teams still working from the 2020 playbook.
Analysis
DKIM sat unused for a generation until the cost of forged mail outran the cost of…
In 2004, when Yahoo published the technical specifications for DomainKeys, the sender authentication problem looked almost solvable.
Analysis
Rakuten has paid shoppers $3.6 billion, and bought a map of their buying lives
The shopper who thinks she is being paid to buy something is, in a strict sense, working.
Analysis
EEOC signs indefinite settlement shielding qualifying Christian employers in some…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Christian Employers Alliance signed their settlement agreement on August 12, 2026.
News
Bulloch County, Georgia did not reject a data center ban on August 4: commissioners…
Bulloch County commissioners have now answered one part of the data center debate: they will not impose the permanent ban presented to them.
Analysis
Cutting social media for one week dropped depressive symptoms 24.8 percent in 373 young…
A schoolteacher in Ohio now has a bio, an aesthetic, and a niche.