Search Engine Marketing

CMA designates Google Search with “strategic market status”

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) formally designated Google with strategic market status (SMS) in general search and search advertising — giving regulators new powers to shape how Google operates in these sectors. What’s included. The designation covers Google’s general search and search advertising services — including AI-powered features such as AI Overviews and […]

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Instant Checkout in ChatGPT brings agentic commerce to life

OpenAI has announced Instant Checkout on ChatGPT.  ChatGPT acts as an intermediary agent for commerce purchases on behalf of the customer.  This provides a foundation that connects people and businesses for the next era of agentic commerce. What does the buying process look like?  The Instant Checkout flow keeps ChatGPT at the center of every

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Your crawl budget is costing you revenue in the AI search era by Semrush Enterprise

While online discussion obsesses over whether ChatGPT spells the end of Google, websites are losing revenue from a far more real and immediate problem: some of their most valuable pages are invisible to the systems that matter. Because while the bots have changed, the game hasn’t. Your website content needs to be crawlable.  Between May

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YouTube Launches Brand Pulse Report to Measure Full Brand Impact via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson

YouTube’s new Brand Pulse Report helps marketers measure full brand impact across paid ads, creator videos, and organic content using AI-powered insights. The post YouTube Launches Brand Pulse Report to Measure Full Brand Impact appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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New YouTube Brand Pulse report tracks every brand mention

YouTube today introduced a new Brand Pulse report that gives advertisers a real-time snapshot of their brand’s total presence across YouTube — from paid ads, to creator collaborations, to user-generated videos. A holistic view of brand presence. The new report taps multimodal AI to spot every brand mention on YouTube – from logos and product

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Google Analytics adds cost data imports for Meta and TikTok ads

Google Analytics now lets advertisers automatically import cost data from Meta and TikTok through new native integrations, streamlining cross-channel performance tracking. Why we care. This update gives marketers a unified view of ad spend and ROI across major platforms — without relying on manual uploads or third-party connectors — helping them better compare efficiency between

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