AI in Marketing
Meta’s Muse Gets Ad Account Access and 15 Business Tools
Meta's Muse now connects to Shopify, Klaviyo, QuickBooks, Stripe and Meta ad accounts, with owner approval required—but pricing and permissions remain open.
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AI in Marketing
AI Agents Filed 17.5% of Meta Ad Batches on Ads Uploader
Ads Uploader says 17.5% of its 36,289 Meta ad batches in September 2026 were submitted by AI agents like Claude or ChatGPT. What that means for buyers.
AI in Marketing
83.4M Daily AI Crawls Are Rewriting Your Website’s Job
Bluehost's 90-day data shows 83.4M daily AI crawls. Here's why AI search is changing your website's job, not replacing it.
SEO
Use AI to Assist SEO, Not Replace the Practitioner
The strongest AI SEO workflows use deterministic checks for facts and language models only to cut friction—keeping final judgment with the practitioner.
SEO
AI Agent Traffic Jumps 1,700% as Google Fights SERP Scraping
Cloudflare says AI agent traffic jumped 1,700% in a year, and Google's SERP scraping crackdown could make rank tracking collateral damage.
Digital Marketing
TikTok Opens 400,000-App Ad Network to US Advertisers
TikTok's TTAN network of nearly 400,000 apps opens to US advertisers, joined by in-app checkout, agentic leads and new Smart+ automation.
AI in Marketing
Meta’s $59.36B ad quarter lets Muse skip ads
MBI Deep Dives argues Meta's Muse may never run ads - its shopping trips can still feed Instagram and Facebook retargeting. Here's why that matters.
Digital Marketing
Carding hits 17.6% of checkout at hardest-hit travel sites
HUMAN's 2026 travel data shows the most-targeted sites face 17.6% carding at checkout, while purpose-built AI agents send 38.4% of traffic to travel.
AI in Marketing
Experian and DataDome Join Forces on AI Shopping Agent Trust
Experian is pairing identity checks with DataDome's in-session behavior monitoring to let verified AI shopping agents through while stopping rogue ones.
AI in Marketing
Google AI Mode and OpenAI Dots Turn Queries Into Standing Tasks
Google AI Mode monitoring and OpenAI dots both keep working after you leave. Here's what that means for SEO, local, retail and measurement.
