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I AM ITALIANO | The Most Italian Chocolate :: Behance

I AM ITALIANO | The Most Italian Chocolate :: Behance

Fascinated by the secret of Italianità we explore the symbols that make us recognized in the world as Unique.For years, Sabadì has been internationally recognized for producing the finest cold-processed chocolate, for its aging techniques, the refined balance of its flavorings, and the precision of its pairings. With I AM ITALIANO, the challenge was to create a high-quality chocolate

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How To Measure PPC Performance When AI Controls The Auction

How To Measure PPC Performance When AI Controls The Auction

For most of the history of paid search, performance measurement followed a clear cause-and-effect relationship. Advertisers controlled the inputs inside their campaigns like bid strategies, keyword and campaign structure, ad copy, and landing pages. All these factors contributed to conversion performance in some shape or form. When performance changed, the explanation was usually traceable. For

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Inside The Trade Desk’s programmatic power struggle

Inside The Trade Desk’s programmatic power struggle

No one said running the largest independent demand-side platform in the world would be easy. If recent headlines indicate anything, The Trade Desk now knows that better than anyone. Major agencies, including Dentsu and WPP, are pulling back ad spend from TTD’s OpenPath platform, citing concerns of hidden fees and lack of transparency. Most notably,

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Old matchboxes are igniting new ideas for these Indian creatives

Old matchboxes are igniting new ideas for these Indian creatives

Maachis Designer Sonal Nagwani, who started Maachis with Kevin Thomas and is now running it on her own, used to build miniature furniture out of matchboxes while growing up. “That tactile, almost obsessive relationship with the object never really left me,” she says. Years later, she found phillumenist Gautam Hemmady’s matchbox archive through the Tasveer

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The Dangerous Seduction Of Click-Chasing

The Dangerous Seduction Of Click-Chasing

It works, until it doesn’t. The Chase Imagine you’re a news publisher. Your journalism is good, you write original stories, and your website is relatively popular within your editorial niche. Revenue is earned primarily via advertising. Google search is your biggest source of visitors. Management demands growth, and elevates traffic to the throne of all

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Meta is Quietly Becoming a Bigger Ad Business Than Google

Meta is Quietly Becoming a Bigger Ad Business Than Google

Meta is poised to surpass Google in digital ad revenue for the first time this year. According to Emarketer, Meta is projected to generate $243.46 billion in global ad revenue in 2026, edging past Google’s $239.54 billion. The social media network is also expected to take a larger share of global ad spend—26.8% compared to

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Donald Trump’s AI Jesus image could finally break his brand

Donald Trump’s AI Jesus image could finally break his brand

The US president has built an entire personal brand around self-aggrandisement, but Donald Trump’s AI Jesus post this weekend may be the moment that brand starts to crack. From his property developments to the Trump Kennedy Center, the US president loves stamping his name on things. The Trump NFT cards and reposts of a shocking

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New Google Spam Policy Targets Back Button Hijacking

New Google Spam Policy Targets Back Button Hijacking

Google added a new section to its spam policies designating “back button hijacking” as an explicit violation under the malicious practices category. Enforcement begins on June 15, giving websites two months to make changes. Google published a blog post explaining the policy. It also updated the spam policies documentation to list back-button hijacking alongside malware

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AI search adoption splits along income lines

AI search adoption splits along income lines

Everyone is talking about AI search as if it’s already universal — as if we’ve collectively moved on, users have shifted and discovery has changed for everyone. But the reality is far less straightforward. While AI search is growing fast, it isn’t being adopted evenly. The gap is increasingly shaped by something we don’t often

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Orthofer :: Behance

Orthofer :: Behance

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Google’s CEO Predicts Search Will Become An AI Agent Manager

Google’s CEO Predicts Search Will Become An AI Agent Manager

In a recent interview, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, explained how search is changing in response to advances in AI. The discussion centered on a simple question: If AI can act, plan, and execute, then what role will search play in the future? Information Queries May Become Agent AI Search The interviewer asked whether search remains

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How marketers justify Cannes Lions budgets in economic downturn

How marketers justify Cannes Lions budgets in economic downturn

Come hell or high water, marketers plan to be at this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Despite ongoing global political tensions, execs justify the trip to the South of France as the cost of doing business. Cannes (this year from June 22 to 26) has long been the industry’s can’t miss event. Yes,

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This unique photobook is an unexpected trip through Mexico City’s witchcraft markets and magical soaps

This unique photobook is an unexpected trip through Mexico City’s witchcraft markets and magical soaps

Each soap has its own visual world, with packaging design full of colour and decorative details, and a prescription or spell-like piece of copy that sits on the back of each box — texts that the designer found funny, fascinating and altogether quite bizarre. Initially keen to collect a number of soaps and document them

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Why Your New SEO Vendor Can’t Build on a Broken Foundation

Why Your New SEO Vendor Can’t Build on a Broken Foundation

There is a common expectation in SEO that needs to be challenged, and it usually appears as soon as a new agency or consultant takes over performance. Many businesses assume that fresh expertise should lead to quick wins, as if changing vendors resets everything and removes the issues that held performance back before. This view

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Hires and Exits at Babylist, OpenAI, McDonald’s, and more

Hires and Exits at Babylist, OpenAI, McDonald’s, and more

This week has been another revolving door of hires and promotions at brands, from chief marketing officer (CMO) exits to marketing reshuffles. We’ve rounded up the U.S. and global marketing leadership moves you need to know about for the week ending April 10. – Kate Rouch is stepping down as CMO of OpenAI to focus

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“Design isn’t something you look at, it’s something you live in”: 5 questions with Wybe Magermans

“Design isn’t something you look at, it’s something you live in”: 5 questions with Wybe Magermans

Wybe Magermans is the director of strategy & growth at WMH&I, an award-winning branding agency embracing creativity shaped by insight and intuition. Beginning his career as an architectural designer in the Netherlands, Wybe went on to work with agencies like Fitch and Pearlfisher before joining WMH&I, where he has since influenced iconic brands such as

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How AI Agents See Your Website (And How To Build For Them)

How AI Agents See Your Website (And How To Build For Them)

Every major AI platform can now browse websites autonomously. Chrome’s auto browse scrolls and clicks. ChatGPT Atlas fills forms and completes purchases. Perplexity Comet researches across tabs. But none of these agents sees your website the way a human does. This is Part 4 in a five-part series on optimizing websites for the agentic web.

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Marketing that pleases everyone converts no one

Marketing that pleases everyone converts no one

There’s a scene in the movie “Chef” that I think about too often. The titular chef, Jon Favreau, is convinced by the restaurant owner, Dustin Hoffman, to play it safe and go with the crowd favorites when serving a prestigious food critic, rather than the special new menu the chef had planned. The critic is

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SOS Oceano – No blue, no green :: Behance

SOS Oceano – No blue, no green :: Behance

We were invited by Droga5 São Paulo to produce this environmental awareness campaign for SOS Oceano, addressing the direct relationship between the oceans and life on land. Starting from an idea, we structured the project through its process, curating collaborators such as Joules & Joules Laboratory, responsible for developing the natural pigments, and Estúdio Elástico,

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What 400 Sites Reveal About Organic Traffic Gains

What 400 Sites Reveal About Organic Traffic Gains

An analysis of more than 400 websites by Zyppy founder Cyrus Shepard identifies five characteristics associated with whether a site gained or lost estimated organic traffic over the past 12 months. Shepard classified sites by revisiting many of the same ones covered in Lily Ray’s December core update analysis, categorizing them by business model, content

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