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How to use AI prompts to generate better ad campaigns

Many of us use various generative AI tools to generate marketing ideas and improve ad campaign outcomes. Prompting can be a powerful alternative to working solo or brainstorming with colleagues. It improves productivity and expands your options. In this article, I’ll cover some of my favorite marketing prompts for ad campaigns. Use these suggestions to […]

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Your Owned Content Is Losing To A Stranger’s Reddit Comment via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester

AI recommendations increasingly rely on Reddit and community signals, reshaping how brands earn visibility, trust, and influence in the AI-driven discovery layer. The post Your Owned Content Is Losing To A Stranger’s Reddit Comment appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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What 10 years of PPC testing reveals about breaking best practices

PPC performance conversations often focus on best practices. Account structures should be clean. Match types controlled. Budgets scaled gradually. Campaigns should avoid overlap. Everything should be logical, efficient, and easy to explain. That foundation matters. It creates consistency and avoids obvious inefficiencies. But it’s not where the biggest gains come from. Looking back over the

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When server-side tagging makes sense for your brand

Privacy laws are tightening, browser extensions are blocking data, and ad platforms are demanding cleaner data. As a result, how you track user behavior online is changing fast. Server-side tagging can help you reduce data loss while collecting cleaner, privacy-compliant data. Here’s what server-side tagging is, when it makes sense to implement it, and our

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HubSpot rebrands its flagship conference from Inbound to Unbound

If you shelved your inbound strategy this past year, you can shelve your Inbound conference mugs and swag with it. HubSpot renamed its annual Inbound conference in Boston this September to Unbound. A note on the event site explains the thinking: “This evolution is our response to that reality. INBOUND is becoming UNBOUND because growth

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AI bot traffic surged 300%, hitting publishers hardest: Report

AI bot activity surged 300% in 2025, with media and publishing among the most targeted sectors, according to a new Akamai report. Why we care. AI bots are reshaping how content is discovered and consumed, shifting users from search clicks to instant answers in chat interfaces. Publishers are seeing fewer visits from organic search and

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