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Artemis II Coverage Lifts Cable Nets

Artemis II Coverage Lifts Cable Nets

This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of April 6, 2026. The Friday return of Artemis II’s 10-day excursion around the moon and the latest news in the War with Iran helped deliver week-to-week gains for all three cable news networks in primetime across total viewers and the

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Designers! You ALL need to come to OFFF Barcelona

Designers! You ALL need to come to OFFF Barcelona

Though I’ve been editor of Creative Bloq for a number of years now, I’m almost embarrassed to admit I’d never come to OFFF Festival, Barcelona. I watched merrily as team members came along, and didn’t realise what I was missing out on. To help you avoid making the same mistakes I have, I’m here to

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Dive Into The Stanford Report Data

Dive Into The Stanford Report Data

Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute published its 2026 AI Index Report. The report runs over 400 pages across nine chapters covering technical performance, investment, workforce effects, and public sentiment. The number getting the most attention is that Generative AI reached 53% adoption among the global population within three years of ChatGPT’s launch. That’s faster than

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AI’s shortlist is the new B2B battleground

AI’s shortlist is the new B2B battleground

\ AI search is quickly becoming a gatekeeper in B2B software buying. New research found that 71% of buyers rely on AI chatbots at some point in the software research process, and 51% now start their research with an AI chatbot more often than with Google. In G2’s report, “The Answer Economy: How AI Search

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House of Chappaz Publications :: Behance

House of Chappaz Publications :: Behance

House of Chappaz Publications An editorial system for House of Chappaz House of Chappaz, the Barcelona-based contemporary art gallery, commissioned Toormix to design the gallery’s new line of publications, embarking on the creation of the 2024–2025 season catalogue: a piece that needed to document the gallery’s programme, serve as an archive, raise the profile of

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Your AI Visibility Strategy Doesn’t Work Outside English

Your AI Visibility Strategy Doesn’t Work Outside English

This series has been written in English, tested in English, and grounded in research conducted primarily in English. Every framework discussed here (vector index hygiene, cutoff-aware content calendaring, community signals, machine-readable content APIs) was conceived by an English-speaking practitioner, stress-tested against English-language queries, and validated against benchmarks that, as this article will show, are themselves

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ChatGPT ads are getting cheaper

ChatGPT ads are getting cheaper

Advertising in ChatGPT is already getting cheaper. The rate advertisers pay to reach every thousand users has fallen from $60 at launch nine weeks ago to as low as $25 now — and counting. It’s early days, but marketers quoted Digiday a range of prices. Ad agency Jellyfish is currently onboarding its first client into

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A classic John Lennon and Yoko Ono track gets a mesmerising music video made from never-before-seen home movies

A classic John Lennon and Yoko Ono track gets a mesmerising music video made from never-before-seen home movies

Initially, the team tried different styles for the video, using graphic and visual representatives of musical waveforms, but ultimately what felt the most authentic to the song was to visually show the love John and Yoko felt for one another. “There were a couple of reels of old Super 8 film from when they first

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Google’s Product Feed Strategy Points To The Future Of Retail Discovery

Google’s Product Feed Strategy Points To The Future Of Retail Discovery

For years, many advertisers treated product feeds as a channel task tied mainly to Shopping campaigns. If you were running Shopping ads, feed optimization likely got attention. If you weren’t, it often slipped behind priorities for the PPC campaigns you were running. Now, that approach is starting to show its age. Google’s recent Ads Decoded

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Brian Williams Teams With Netflix for New Podcast Series

Brian Williams Teams With Netflix for New Podcast Series

Top of the Ticker: “Unscripted, unhurried, and utterly himself.” That’s how Netflix describes Brian Williams ahead of his new podcast series, We’re Back! With Brian Williams. The new Netflix podcast, which debuts later this year, is billed as Williams having conversations with interesting figures shaping popular culture, including actors, writers, musicians, athletes, journalists, and unexpected

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Why Metro 2039 is doubling down on tightly curated, story-first level design

Why Metro 2039 is doubling down on tightly curated, story-first level design

There are a lot of reasons why the announcement of Metro 2039 was important, not least because the game has been made in the shadow of the Ukrainian war with Russia (developer 4A Games is Ukrainian-Maltese studio, founced 20 years ago in Kyiv), but because it also represents a pushback against recent game dev trends;

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Google Bans Back Button Hijacking, Agentic Search Grows

Google Bans Back Button Hijacking, Agentic Search Grows

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect what Google considers spam, what happens when you report it, and what agentic search looks like in practice. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google’s New Spam Policy Targets Back Button Hijacking Google added back button hijacking to its spam policies, with enforcement beginning June 15.

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Synthetic research is a promise with a catch

Synthetic research is a promise with a catch

\ We’re experiencing a conflict between the economic pressure to produce quick and cheap research results and the scientific demand for rigor. Hundreds, if not thousands, of lifelike personas can be generated within minutes by vendors promising strong results. But these often operate as methodological black boxes, producing outputs that can’t be validated, may contain

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OFF – Bieannále Budapest – 2025 :: Behance

OFF – Bieannále Budapest – 2025 :: Behance

OFF – Biennále Budapest – 2025 – Poems of Unrest In 2025, the OFF-Biennale Budapest celebrated its tenth anniversary, with the 5th jubilee edition focusing on the concept of security. As multiple crises intensify and converge – fueled by far-right political agendas, wars, the cost-of-living and housing crises, and the anthropogenic climate crisis – we find

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Gen Z Workers Pick Human-Only Output Over AI-Assisted

Gen Z Workers Pick Human-Only Output Over AI-Assisted

Surveyed Gen Z workers leaned toward human-only output. AI-assisted work remained a secondary choice. Workplace attitudes toward AI look more skeptical than last year. Gen Z workers surveyed by Gallup said they would trust work done without AI over AI-assisted output by more than 2-to-1, with the gap widening.

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CPG’s CMO reset

CPG’s CMO reset

For the better part of a decade, CPG companies hired marketers who could optimize a media plan. Now, they’re hiring ones who can save a brand. When Smuckers went looking for a new CMO earlier this year, it didn’t reach for a performance marketer. It hired Katie Williams, the former U.S. CMO of Haleon, a

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The algorithm erodes the travel recommendation: what comes after?

The algorithm erodes the travel recommendation: what comes after?

Sam Blenkinsopp built Trippin a decade ago on exactly the premise that the best recommendations come from real people – “People actually creating culture on the ground like DJs, chefs, designers, artists.” The result of ignoring that, he says, is what urban theorists call AirSpace: a global monoculture of exposed brick and Edison bulbs, where

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Google AI Mode in Chrome Gets Side-by-Side Browsing

Google AI Mode in Chrome Gets Side-by-Side Browsing

Google is rolling out updates to AI Mode in Chrome. Clicking a link in AI Mode on Chrome desktop now opens the webpage in a side panel. The updates are live in the U.S. and will expand to more countries soon. Google is updating AI Mode in Chrome with side-by-side page viewing and a

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Netflix Ad Revenue Set to Reach $3 Billion in 2026, New Ad Products Coming

Netflix Ad Revenue Set to Reach $3 Billion in 2026, New Ad Products Coming

The numbers $2.8 billion — Netflix’s payment received for Warner Bros. Discovery backing out of merger deal in favor of Paramount’s offer. 2X — Netflix ad revenue projected to double, reaching $3 billion in 2026. 16% — Netflix revenue growth in Q1 year over year, due to membership growth, price increase, and increased ad revenue.

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Revealed: OFFF 2026’s visual identity was secretly harvested from actual people

Revealed: OFFF 2026’s visual identity was secretly harvested from actual people

While we already knew Uncommon created the striking visual identity for OFFF Festival 2026, today revealed a surprising secret about the way it was made. Introducing “Cultured” during his opening keynote this morning, Nils Leonard asked creatives if they’d been to any of the series of mixers held by Uncommon, supposedly designed to ask them

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