Walk the Croisette on the first morning of Cannes Lions and the whole apparatus has reassembled itself, as it always has — more or less. Meta at the Plage Barrière Le Majestic. Amazon at its port. Pinterest and its Manifestival, a word that should not exist and yet somehow does, and somehow fits. Spotify, Salesforce,
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The debate about AI is slowly moving away from the question of whether AI should be used and towards a more nuanced one: how, when, and why generative AI could be used. While much of that conversation focuses on image generation and productivity, some creators are using AI to tackle something far bigger: building entire
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Search has always used basic personalization like location, language, and recent history. But now, Google does not just react to the words you type; the system builds a profile of your habits to change what you see before you search. This is a fundamental change in how search works. Google is building a system to
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Last year 2025 I was approached by art agency, Pistachio Kernel company limited https://www.pistachio-k.com/ to create 6 artworks for Cullinan Harbour (Kai Tak) property in Hong Kong, build by Sun Hung Kai Real Estate Development Company Limited. For this particular project, I was invited to create a series of artworks centered around the theme of
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Y Combinator’s motto, “Make something people want,” was never about the product. It was about distribution. Build the thing that finds product-market fit, and the people come. For 20 years, that distribution ran through search engines, social algorithms, paid ads, and word of mouth. All human-mediated channels. That changed. In the past six months, Cloudflare,
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Customer data platform BlueConic announced today it was acquiring Blueshift, an AI-powered cross-channel marketing platform. The next wave of CDPs is looking more agentic than previous generations, which were focused on collecting and unifying customer data. Agentic CDPs, as they’re starting to be called, will add AI agents to make decisions based on that data, creating
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In addition to the profound economic, societal and technological changes brought on by the advent of the industrial age in the second half of the 19th century, the time period also saw the introduction of symbols and brand names for distinguishing and identifying products. Logos began as representational symbols, according to various regional traditions, and
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AI Mode visitors arrive at your website having already done the research. They compared options inside the AI, refined their query three times, and planned. By the time they click through to you, they are not browsing. They are ready to complete a task. Your website is still built to persuade someone who has not
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Marketers are nervous about agentic media buying. WPP is betting governance is the answer. Which is why alongside the launch of its Buyer Agent for Video yesterday (June 18), it unveiled a coalition of premium media owners including Disney, Netflix, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Fox as well as standards bodies IAB Tech Lab and Prebid.org. It
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Most design courses are good at teaching you how to make the technical stuff, like software, principles, and processes. What they’re often less good at is teaching you how to work, or manage a client relationship, or grapple with feedback that doesn’t make much sense because it’s come from someone with no creative background. These
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For about two months, business owners and SEO professionals have reported that pages have been removed from Google’s index without a clear explanation. The reports started in late April and have continued into June. In many of those reports, the affected pages had neither a manual action nor a crawl error. They moved into “excluded”
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Taylor Borden, an editor at LinkedIn, emailed me last week with a question she’s putting to a handful of writers for a special edition of her newsletter, The Work Shift. The premise was backed by data that shows entrepreneurship on LinkedIn is up nearly 70% year over year, more than six in 10 of those
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The most important step before writing a marketing headline is understanding what drives your customer. Across all the performance marketing campaigns I’ve optimized for travel, retail, construction, medical, and health brands, the same pattern holds. Get to know the customer first, and the results follow. In today’s automated media environment, ad platforms now handle most
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“There is probably a digital way to recreate many of these textures, but having the pieces exist physically and have a life beyond the screen makes the work feel more real to me,” says Mumbai-based animator and illustrator Dhrutika Khimani. The textures in question are some of the most pleasant you’ll ever see – quaint
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Google researchers published a new paper detailing a new way to catch spammers who are using generative AI to flood Google’s platform with spam and overwhelm its quality filters. While the research is focused on identifying video content spam, the techniques described could give an idea of methods that Google could use for web content
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Just six weeks after OpenAI’s ads manager was made widely available in the U.S., the AI company has now expanded the product to the U.K., in beta. The move makes the U.K. the fifth market with access to the self-serve platform, joining the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The mechanics are the same as
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The world of audiophile headphones has been a tad dull in 2026… then one of the premier brands releases a new ‘affordable’ headphone based on cutting-edge preference targets, and I’m officially no longer bored! Dan Clark Audio is shaking up the sub-$900 market with the Aeon Core, a striking pair of closed-back planar magnetic headphones.
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Welcome to Pulse: this week’s updates touch how you measure AI visibility, what to expect from llms.txt, and where the agentic web heads next. Microsoft shipped new AI citation tools, fresh data landed on llms.txt, Google and two coalitions published agent specs, and the UK set new ranking rules for Google Search. Here’s what matters
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Read MoreThis series explores wind-swept grain fields near Hamburg, revealing fluid patterns, soft textures and shifting forms that transform familiar landscapes into abstract studies of movement, light and rhythm.
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