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How Derek Ridgers has captured London’s music scene for over 50 years

For our first Nicer Tuesdays of 2026, the iconic photographer Derek Ridgers joined us in London for a retrospective of his decades-spanning portfolio. From his early work for Island Records (when he didn’t even own a camera), to becoming one of the key photographers of the punk era, documenting London’s rich music scene and adorning

How To Build An SEO Commissioning Workflow

Enterprise SEO doesn’t fail because teams lack knowledge. It fails because they’re invited too late. In most large organizations, SEO still operates in a reactive posture. Teams review pages after launch, run audits, document issues, file tickets, and then wait, often for months, for other teams to implement changes. Modern search visibility is no longer

14 Things I Learned at SXSW

This story was originally published in On Background with Mark Stenberg, a free, weekly newsletter that explores the key themes shaping the media industry. You can sign up for it here. This past week, I flew to Austin to attend South by Southwest, the annual festival now owned by PMC that combines networking and thought leadership

Boulder Dash 40th Anniversary review: incredible value, but the modern twists can frustrate

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: BBG Entertainment) Publisher BBG Entertainment Developer BBG Entertainment Format PS5 (Reviewed), Xbox Series X/S, PC, Switch, PS4, Mac Platform Unity

Authentic Human Conversation™

Last Friday afternoon, Digg died. Again. Two months. That’s how long the relaunch lasted before CEO Justin Mezzell pinned a eulogy to the homepage. The platform had raised $15-20 million. It had Kevin Rose. It had Alexis Ohanian – Reddit’s co-founder, no less. It had promises that AI would “remove the janitorial work of moderators

3 ways to reduce bias in AI with better context

Among all the concerns marketers have when bringing AI into decision-making, there’s one we don’t talk about enough: Are we too quick to assume AI knows what’s going on in our heads when we build models? This stems from a growing worry about introducing bias when building prompts and formatting queries. The bias can stem

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Google Explains Why HTTPS Migration May Negatively Impact SEO

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about moving to HTTPS, explaining why the process of making a site secure is actually a major undertaking that can have a negative impact on rankings. Loss Of Top 3 Google Rankings A person asked on Reddit why they lost their top 3 rankings in Google after making their

Creator commerce platform LTK has just released Quick Collabs

The fast pace of trends and the maturing creator economy have created bottlenecks for brand deals. Creator commerce platform LTK wants to solve that problem by allowing brands to launch flat-fee campaigns that creators can opt in to as they see fit. The company has just released Quick Collabs, a feature in its platform for

Ballet and opera institutions need to get radical to stay relevant

The real barrier is perception In my experience working with cultural institutions, the biggest challenge opera houses and ballet companies face is perception. Many people think “it’s not for me”. They imagine it’s elitist, expensive or intimidating. They worry about what to wear, or that they won’t know when to clap. Or they assume it

Search Referral Traffic Down 60% For Small Publishers, Data Shows

Search referral traffic to small publishers dropped 60% over two years, according to Chartbeat data reported exclusively by Axios. That’s nearly three times the decline at large publishers. The analytics firm, which tracks traffic across thousands of client websites globally, segmented its network by size. Mid-sized publishers (10,000 to 100,000 daily page views) lost 47%,

98th Oscars Down Nearly 2 Million Viewers, Reaching 17.86 Million

Unfortunately, even a performance of the KPop Demon Hunters song “Golden” couldn’t make Oscars ratings go up, up, up. Today, according to Nielsen national live+same day big data plus panel program ratings, the 98th Oscars took a significant dip, dropping to 17.86 million viewers. The show, which aired on ABC and streamed live on Hulu, was down around

Epic Dune 3 trailer reveals Timothée Chalamet’s darker, more menacing look

Timothée Chalamet missed out the Best Actor Oscar this week in his role as the hero of Dune 2. Could he have a chance in 2027 with a more villainous performance? No, I’m not referring to his baiting of artists in the opera and ballet worlds, but to his upcoming return as a much transformed

The PESO Model® Was Built for This Moment

TL; DR The PESO Model® did not become less relevant because of AI—it became more necessary. In a world shaped by zero-click discovery, AI summaries, reviews, creator commentary, and fragmented trust signals, marketing can no longer rely on disconnected tactics masquerading as strategy. The modern PESO Model works as an operating system: owned creates the

How Google Profits From Demand You Already Own

Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! Branded search inflates your return on ad spend (ROAS) by taking credit for demand you already own, and every input in the paid acquisition model is getting worse simultaneously. This week, you’ll cover: The math on how branded search distorts performance reporting across

Middle managers are the missing link in AI adoption

Leadership has bought in. Teams are curious and experimenting. The technology is working. Yet AI adoption in your marketing organization is crawling. What gives? The answer isn’t in your tools, your vision or your talent pool. The answer is sitting in your org chart, two to three levels down from the C-suite and one level

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3 CMS Platforms Control 73% Of The Market & Shape Technical SEO Defaults

Chris Green helped analyze 17 million websites and co-authored the latest SEO chapter for the Web Almanac, and his conclusion should matter to anyone who does SEO for a living. Green said the data showed that individual SEOs have “minimal” web-wide impact compared to CMS platform defaults. He wrote: “If you are really determined to

Media Buying Briefing: Is ad marketplace uncertainty the new normal?

Crazy as it may sound, the advertising marketplace is keeping its cool for the most part in the face of a series of events that historically would have set it off in a tizzy of halted budgets and downward forecasts: a new war, rising oil and gas prices, the return of tariffs and generally slumping

Marvel at the animated alchemy behind Mackenzie Crook’s Small Prophets

INT: How did you eventually make them come to life? Tell us about the process. WA: We were on set shooting with Mackenzie in a shed that had been built in a studio, where we could control the lighting. The actors would act their scenes to empty jars, and we would take shots of jars,

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