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NanoClaw Creator Loses SEO Battle To Impostor Website

The creator of NanoClaw, an open source AI agent platform with over 18,000 GitHub stars, says Google is ranking a fake website above his project’s real site. In tests conducted on March 5, an impostor site ranked at the top of Google for the project’s own name. The real website, nanoclaw.dev, did not appear in

Beehiiv Names Calendly Leader Darren Chait As Its First CMO

Beehiiv has hired Darren Chait as its first chief marketing officer, bringing on the former Calendly growth executive as the newsletter platform pushes deeper into the creator economy, according to its chief executive Tyler Denk. Chait, who officially began the role on Monday, will oversee positioning, demand generation, and marketing operations as Beehiiv expands beyond

This game shows ‘AI-generated’ and ‘handcrafted’ don’t have to be contradictions

The use of generative AI in video game development causes massive controversy. Players keep saying they don’t want it, and yet the use of AI continues to increase rapidly. But does it have to be slop? At South by Southwest (SXSW) this week, Brazilian studio ARVORE revealed a game that they think shows ‘handcrafted’ and

MarComm Doesn’t Have a Skills Gap, It Has a Judgment Gap

The judgment gap stalls smart teams. Travis Claytor shows how strategy, not speed or volume, drives confident decisions and real outcomes. The post MarComm Doesn’t Have a Skills Gap, It Has a Judgment Gap first appeared on Spin Sucks.

The Verified Source Pack Agents Trust First

Structured data helped machines interpret pages. It reduced ambiguity. It made entities and attributes legible to crawlers that were otherwise guessing. Agents change the job because they do not just interpret pages. They decide, summarize, recommend, and sometimes execute. That means they need more than “this page is about X.” They need “this is the

Showing up in the age of AI search

We know the pressure of watching organic traffic dip while AI overviews take center stage. It’s a common hurdle right now, but a recent panel at the MarTech Conference — moderated by Janet Driscoll Miller, president and CEO at Marketing Mojo — highlighted that visibility isn’t disappearing; it’s just moving. Sara Resnick, global lead of

Roaming Dokebi Brand Film Collaboration :: Behance

CarryGrow produced three brand films for ‘Roaming Dokebi’, Korea’s first eSIM store. Roaming Dokebi is the #1 eSIM app by downloads, with strong brand recognition among customers in their 20s and 30s. The brand films effectively conveyed the service’s convenience, unlimited cost-effectiveness, and 365 day customer support through relatable episodes featuring the brand character, and

Google Removes JavaScript SEO Warning, Says It’s Outdated

Google removed outdated JavaScript and accessibility guidance from its documentation. Google Search has rendered JavaScript well for years. It’s the latest in a series of JS documentation updates. Google removed its JavaScript accessibility guidance from help documents, saying the advice is outdated and noting it has rendered JavaScript for years.

Meta is not using LLMs to power its ad targeting yet, CFO admits

Using large language models for ranking is a future bet, not a current reality at Meta. The company’s CFO Susan Li made the admission at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecommunications conference in San Francisco on Wednesday (March 4). In an industry where execs routinely overstate how far along their AI transformation actually is,

How does a creative residency impact your practice? Quite a lot, according to these artists

Ciara Neufeldt Community is close to ceramic artist, craftsperson, and facilitator Ciara’s heart. Her practice uses clay to bring people together with the “therapeutic aspects of tactile making”, Ciara shares. She first came to ceramics during university, where access to the department allowed her to fall in love with the practice. And so, Ciara is

WordPress Releases AI Plugins For Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, And OpenAI

WordPress has created three new plugins that make it easy to add OpenAI, Google Gemini, or Anthropic Claude integration for the PHP AI Client SDK. The plugins enable text, image, function calling and web search support. Requirements For Using WordPress AI Plugin PHP 7.4 or higher is required to use these plugins and of course

OffBall and Togethxr Team Up on a New Playbook for Sports Media

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. In digital media, nothing is certain except death and the enduring dominance of live sports. In recent years, the frenzy surrounding athletic content has reached

How facial performance capture has evolved from Avengers Infinity War to The Fantastic Four First Steps

Established in the early 1990s, Digital Domain has sustained its profile as a major presence in visual effects, contributing to hugely popular movies that have included the iconic Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. A distinctive aspect of its work over the past decade and a half has been in facial performance-capture and its realisation

Revive old content to win in AI search

If your brand’s content arm has been active for a few years, I’m guessing you have plenty of material that can be revised to help you show up more prominently in AI search answers — we’ll call this AEO throughout the article. I’m getting bombarded with brand marketers’ questions about how to get AEO traction these days.

Gilles Villeneuve :: Behance

Gilles Villeneuve is one of Formula One’s most iconic figures. Not because of championships, but because he changed what racing looked like. His legacy is built on instinct and style rather than statistics. Decades after his passing, Gilles’ presence lived mostly through archival footage and scattered memorabilia. Despite his stature, there was no unified visual

Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities Affect 60K Sites

A security advisory was issued for two vulnerabilities affecting the Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin that’s installed in over 60,000 websites. The vulnerabilities can be exploited by any logged-in user with a minimum subscriber-level access. The Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin flaw allows authenticated attackers to retrieve internal operational data from a website and also make unauthorized

Omnicom Media’s Ralph Pardo talks IPG integration and avoiding disintermediation

Omnicom leadership has taken its share of lumps since closing on the acquisition of Interpublic Group at the end of 2025. But it didn’t stop Ralph Pardo, CEO of Omnicom Media North America, from speaking at Digiday’s spring Media Buying Summit, which is wrapping up today in Nashville. Although careful with his choice of words

Vintage Arab cassette tapes inspired Sometimes Always’ fiery identity for Fouta Harissa

Although the label started in Brazil in 2018, it’s traditional Foutas (handwoven, flat textiles) are currently crafted by artisans in Tunisia, the founders’ homeland. With a shift of production to Brazil, Fouta Harrissa’s goal was to “visually connect the brand to the country”, without cutting ties to Tunisia, shares lead designer Solenn. The team decided

How To Build An AI SEO Strategy That Outlasts Tactics

Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! Most AEO “strategies” are tactic lists dressed up as long-term direction. They often break the first time a platform changes or leadership asks questions. A real AI SEO strategy starts with the business problem, builds on your brand’s unique advantages, and lets tactics

X Will Penalize Creators Who Share AI-Generated War Videos Without Disclosure

X will temporarily bar creators from monetizing their content through its Creator Revenue Sharing program if they share AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without clearly disclosing that it was made with AI. The move comes three days after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran, sparking a chain of violent reactions. X’s head

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