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Lighthouse Fails Your Llms.txt Without Markdown Links

Chrome’s new Lighthouse Agentic Browsing audit treats your .txt file as a markdown document. If your llms.txt does not use markdown link syntax, you fail the audit, even when every link in the file is accurate and works. I ran the audit on nohacks.co. Two of six audits passed. Three came back not applicable. One

Stop adopting AI and start solving problems

AI was supposed to make marketing faster, smarter, and more efficient. In theory, it does. But in practice, many teams are moving so quickly to adopt AI that they’re using it reactively instead of strategically. Instead of streamlining work, they’re creating new friction. I’ve watched clients adopt an AI tool because everyone else is, without

The Weekend With Rene Matić

The youngest Turner Prize nominee to date, artist Rene Matić’s work spans photography, film and sculpture, often weaving through themes of identity, nationality and belonging, as well as feminism and queerness. The artist has just been awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for their project As Opposed to The Truth – a powerful, layered

Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search

Google Search now routes searchers to the domain’s own AMP host pages. Google will no longer use the AMP viewer, AMP Cache, or signed exchanges for AMP serving. AMP content will continue to rank like any other web page. Google Search now takes searchers directly to a domain’s AMP host pages, ending the viewer/cache serving

Bose is building an entertainment company

Bose Studios launched last month. But the music company’s entertainment division is the culmination of a strategic shift that has been years in the making. It already accounts for one-third to 40% of the brand’s marketing, CMO Jim Mollica told Digiday at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity last week. He expects that to reach

What the Lego x Olivia Rodrigo collaboration teaches designers

Lego has launched a five-set collection built around Olivia Rodrigo; the first time the company has dedicated multiple sets to a single musician. The range, launching globally on 1 August, includes a vinyl display, a guitar-shaped storage case, a concert moon scene, a dual acoustic-and-electric guitar build, and a personalised entry into Lego’s Botanicals range.

Google’s Mueller Flags A Case On Why LCP Fixes Miss the Target

Google Search Advocate John Mueller highlights a new case study explaining why certain Largest Contentful Paint improvements often fail to produce results. In a layout that varies by store, the browser may focus on the wrong element, causing all subsequent optimizations to target something that was never the LCP in the first place. The case

Fox News and MS NOW Share the Spoils

This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of June 22, 2026. Fox News and MS NOW concluded the week with some positive momentum as they recorded individual wins in total viewers during total day and the Adults 25-54 demo during total day, respectively. All networks were down in

The Devil Wears the PESO Model®: Why Most Companies Fake Integration

Most brands think they’re running the PESO Model. They’re not. Aquila Mendez-Valdez shares 3 signs that separate real integration from a very expensive costume. The post The Devil Wears the PESO Model®: Why Most Companies Fake Integration first appeared on Spin Sucks.

Your Younger Audience Is Declining Faster Than It Looks

Last week, I argued that habitual publisher traffic – direct and branded – has been eroding for years, and that the under-35s are leading the charge. Not directly provable, but a theory. Now that I am no longer part of that cohort, it’s easier to pin the blame on them. Which is entirely what I

FREE! The email subject line rules that don’t hold up!

Email marketers have spent years following the same advice: use power words, personalize subject lines, avoid ALL CAPS, and keep punctuation to a minimum. A new study suggests some of those rules may be hurting performance instead of helping it. Researchers at the University of Helsinki analyzed 31,812 marketing email subject lines sent a combined

Mindy Seu invites us to uncover our erotic relationship with the internet

Cyberfeminism Index creator, designer, researcher and educator Mindy Seu joined us on the Nicer Tuesdays stage in Los Angeles to introduce us to A Sexual History of the Internet, a compendium-cum-performance-piece of our erotic relationship with the visual history of sex. Her talk came along with a slideshow interactive via Are.na all about teledildonics, cybersex

Google AI Overviews Study Finds Lost Clicks Weren’t Lower Quality

The extra outbound clicks that websites get when Google’s AI Overviews are removed seem to be of similar quality to the clicks with the AIOs still included. This finding comes from an updated, randomized field experiment, which showed a 39.8% decrease in organic clicks when the summaries are shown. Researchers Saharsh Agarwal and Ananya Sen

‘Surveillance pricing’ laws are coming for publishers’ subscriptions

Google threatens to cut publishers out of new AI partnerships, New York Times amends lawsuit against OpenAI, and more. WTF is “surveillance pricing”? Publishers may advertise a single subscription price on their websites, but in practice subscribers pay a range of prices due to promotional, introductory and retention discounts. Now some of the tactics behind

Honor Magic V6 review: Forget the iPhone Fold!

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. I’ve been using the Honor Magic V6 for the last two weeks, and I’ve got some thoughts… I say ‘using’ and not ‘testing’,

OpenAI Hiring Points To Image & Video Ads Coming To ChatGPT

OpenAI is seeking engineers to develop new image, video, native, and conversational ad formats for ChatGPT, moving beyond the standard sponsored unit tested since February. Three listings on OpenAI’s careers page, first surfaced by Digiday, describe building ads across text, image, video, native, conversational, and interactive surfaces, all within OpenAI’s new monetization team. More formats would

Meta Names Denise Moreno CMO as Alex Schultz Becomes First Chief Data Officer

Meta has appointed Denise Moreno as its new CMO, succeeding Alex Schultz, who has been named Meta’s first chief data officer. Moreno is a 17-year Meta veteran, and most recently served as global SVP of consumer marketing and growth. Both execs will report to Meta COO Javier Olivan, and Moreno will now join Schultz on

Habitual Publisher Traffic Is Collapsing

AI has been public enemy No. 1 for at least two years. As the early wave of excitement wore off, people realized the content we, as SEOs and publishers, had spent years flooding the internet with was being used to make the richest even richer. We cannot deny the open web is changing – AI

Practical advice for scaling start-up marketing

Start-up marketing isn’t for the faint of heart, and if you want to learn how it’s done well, you can check out the highlight reels on LinkedIn, or you can spend time with someone who’s scaled marketing start up and discuss what they’ve learned. In this episode of Conversations with MarTech, Abby Strong, chief market

Photographer Da’Shaunae Marisa on the importance of grief and knowing your roots

Photographer and filmmaker Da’Shaunae Marisa took the Nicer Tuesdays stage in Los Angeles in the form of a flower to take us through her creative journey, from an early interest in photography to a stellar career in photojournalism centring the beauty of Black life in America, leading to a giant Rubik’s Cube installation and work

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