Laika is known for beautiful stopmotion animation, but its next movie looks set to take that reputation to a new level in its scope, ambition and technical accomplishment. The studio that made Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings has released the teaser trailer for Wildwood, and viewers are stunned by the movie’s epic scale
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Google quietly updated one of its Google Ads help pages with a clarification that could raise concerns for some advertisers. The updated documentation suggests that search terms shown in reporting for AI-powered Search experiences may not always reflect a user’s exact query. Instead, some reported search terms may represent Google’s interpretation of user intent. The
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As vibe coding, AI, and data play a bigger role inside revenue teams, a shift from fragmented best-of-breed stacks toward unified, AI-native operating systems is taking shape. Naman Khan worked for legacy giants like Salesforce and Dropbox and now serves as CMO at Reevo, a challenger brand in the revenue platform space. In this episode
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People do not just build a company; it is made of them. This campaign transforms that idea into a visual reality. Each portrait is composed of hundreds of real workers, forming a single unified face while preserving every individual story within it. From afar, you see strength and clarity. Up close, you discover diversity, experience,
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Google Research published a paper that studies how to make generative AI systems produce answers that do more than sound plausible. The researchers say that their ALDRIFT framework “opens exciting avenues” for moving beyond answers that merely have a high probability. The paper, titled “Sample-Efficient Optimization over Generative Priors via Coarse Learnability,” examines a problem
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Target has completely reengineered its creator ecosystem through two distinct new programs. In April, Target told creators that it would sunset its previous creator program in May, Ad Age reported. The retired program was commission-based and allowed creators to build out digital storefronts. In its place, Target has launched Club Target and Target Ambassadors. Club Target is designed
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Struck by the sheer variety of the stuff – all the diverse and unusual forms one the humble tool could take, from “soft blue Japanese sheets made with ceramic particles, Spanish orange paper with lovely lettering that peeks through the translucent grit and small belts for the machine that curled up like animals”, he came
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Local AI search rewards better pages. Learn exactly how to build them. Are your location-based pages showing up when AI-powered search answers local queries? Is structured data, listings, reviews driving (or undermining) your brand’s visibility across locations? 👆 Register above to learn the right way to build local intent pages that get cited in AI
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The quick summary: The Super Bowl may be months away, but Disney already has its head in the game. Heading into its upfront presentation from the Javits Center in New York, Disney has Super Bowl LXI, the College Football Championship, the Grammys, and the Oscars within six weeks of each other in 2027. To showcase
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Protest art meets retro gaming in the latest work from Secret Handshake. The anonymous art collective has turned to video game design as the most logical medium to comment on the chaos of the Trump administration’s Iran War, and you can play online. The group has previously made a splash with its satirical sculptures, including
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Scaling AI content generation is the number one content strategy for enterprise organizations optimizing for AI search visibility. According to Conductor’s 2026 State of AEO/GEO CMO Investment Report, which surveyed over 250 executives and digital leaders across 12 industries, it ranked above structured data, above authoritative long-form guides, and above original research. Across every maturity
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The reality of the current marketing landscape is that “experimenting” with AI is no longer enough to move the needle. At the May 2026 MarTech Conference, Molly St. Louis (EM Marketing) moderated a panel of leaders including Greg Boone (Walk West), Peter Isaacson (Invoca), and Kate Roberts (Cella by Randstad Digital) moved past the usual
Read MoreTL;DR AI made distribution effortless. It also made dilution invisible. Each generation of AI-rewritten content softens the claim, drops the proof, and homogenizes the voice. By the fourth generation, your best work reads like everyone else’s—and the answer engines that now decide who gets surfaced cannot tell you apart from the generic. The fix is
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This week’s Ask an SEO question is a bit different. The person wants to know how they can keep relevant and feel secure in their jobs with AI replacing people. In addition to this question, someone at the Digital Marketing EU conference in Lisbon asked, “How do we pay affiliates so we can use them
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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to agentic media buying. There are those who want to be at the so-called cutting edge, embedding AI agents in things like the process of buying ads and optimizing creative. Then, there are those who have drawn a line
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Alfie lists the image-makers Jeff Wall, Alex Prager, Gregory Crewdson and Nadia Lee Cohen as key influences, inclined toward their ‘set-up’ shots and how they “construct new worlds” in a single frame. This sense of artifice emerges in Alfie’s rendition of a birthday scene: sat in a wooded area, donning a pink party hat and
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Schema markup is far more common on pages cited by AI. But a new Ahrefs report found that adding it didn’t result in a clear increase in citations. Ahrefs tracked 1,885 web pages that added JSON-LD schema. Each page was matched against control pages that never added schema, and citation changes were measured across Google
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The quick summary: For its third annual upfront presentation on May 11, Amazon drew hundreds of ad execs, agency representatives, and brand marketers to New York’s Beacon Theatre for a high-energy, 90-minute, celebrity-filled presentation. DJ Diplo kicked off the evening, followed by country music star Kacey Musgraves. Amazon’s top talent including talk show legend Oprah
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Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. Details (Image credit: Kwalee Ltd) Publisher Kwalee Developer Out of the Blue Games Release date 12 May Format Xbox Series X|S (reviewed), PlayStation
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Google’s Keyword Team published their recap of the biggest AI announcements from April 2026. Cloud Next ’26 introduced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Google’s eighth-generation TPUs, built for agentic workloads. Google also released Gemma 4, described as byte-for-byte the most capable open model available, along with Deep Research Max for advanced autonomous data synthesis
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