Meta's business assistant gains memory and action controls while TikTok launches a conversational shopping assistant. Here is what changed and what it means for small operators.

Developers use Reddit to compare tools before buying, not to find AI-cited answers. Here is how to build presence there without getting banned or ignored.

Domain registration interest among 18- to 29-year-olds dropped from 55% in spring 2023 to 17% in spring 2026. Young founders are starting on social, then buying a domain once the business proves itself.

TikTok unveiled Shopping Assistant and Buy Direct at Advertising Week NYC on October 5. Both are in eligibility-based US testing and run on Google's Universal Commerce Protocol.

This week's marketing signal: brand gazettes are turning event swag into content strategy, ChatGPT is testing visual ads, and a 3-person team built their own Calendly in 20 minutes.

From multi-agent campaign pipelines to holdout testing, here are the AI marketing patterns that measurably move revenue, drawn from 14 real deployments.

What third parties say about your brand shapes how AI tools answer questions about you. Here is the AEO audit approach MarTech recommends.

SOCi data shows AI-assisted local search rose from 9% to 52% in 12 months. But 81% of consumers still check reviews or social before trusting an AI recommendation.

From GEO citation data to LinkedIn retargeting at $0.50 per member, here are the sharpest marketing findings from this week's research roundup.

New research shows labor-based agency fees have collapsed from 54% to 19% since 2011. Plus: 62% of AI-assisted shoppers switched brands, and Amazon now runs your full ad funnel.

J.Crew used 160 real people to out-signal AI content, Adobe found AI-assisted shoppers return less, and Reddit is killing RSS and its public API by March.

Google's May 2026 AI optimization guide says llms.txt files and special schemas don't improve visibility. For law firms, the fundamentals still win.