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Furniture.com was built for SEO. Now it’s trying to crack AI search

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail In the early days of the internet, owning a domain like Furniture.com was the digital equivalent of beachfront property. If shoppers were looking for a couch online, there was a good chance they would start by typing “furniture.com.” Two decades later, that shopper may instead […]

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How medical creator Nick Norwitz grew his Substack paid subscribers from 900 to 5,200 within 8 months

Nick Norwitz graduated from Harvard Medical School last May. By January, he had already grown his paying Substack subscribers nearly 500 percent, taking the total to 5,200, while registered readers jumped 362 percent to 42,000. Last March, he was approached for representation by creator management company Underscore Talent, which signed him into their Shorthand Studios

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Inside Amazon’s effort to shape the AI narrative on sustainability and ethics

Artificial intelligence has a trust problem and companies — particularly those like Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI and others — are facing an uphill battle trying to solve it. Amazon made more deliberate efforts late last month to better manage the narrative. The company hosted its first “editorial exchange” event in Seattle late last month, where it pitched

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The Missed Opportunity In Performance TV: Long-Term Brand-Building

TV advertising has traditionally been about brand awareness, with success measured in reach. As TV has transformed into a digital asset, it’s become easier for marketers to measure short-term impacts like sales and sign-ups. However, when marketers get too fixated on measuring short-term performance, they miss opportunities to capitalize on TV’s strength as a brand-building

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From rented audiences to engaged communities: Why participation is the new moat for publishers

Mark Zohar, President and CEO, Viafoura For more than a decade, digital publishers have had to make a trade-off regarding social media. Social platforms promised reach, scale and frictionless distribution. In exchange, publishers ceded control of audience relationships, data and, ultimately, trust. Today, that bargain is not working. Social media is imperfect. Feeds are flooded

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Layoffs hit LADbible Group’s social video team amid slower user-generated content growth

LADbible Group is cutting approximately a dozen staffers on its social video team based in Manchester, in the U.K. This comes after a round of layoffs to the social video team in London last fall, which impacted about 10 people, according to people familiar with the matter.  LADbible Group (which operates LADbible, SPORTbible and Betches

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