The largest public names on the public markets are plateauing, prompting further speculation.
The largest public names on the public markets are plateauing, prompting further speculation.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026
 
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Digiday
Ad Tech Briefing: More take-private deals are on the horizon, here’s what to look out for
The largest public names on the public markets are plateauing, prompting further speculation.
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Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
 
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Social Media Today
Zuckerberg releases AI manifesto
The Meta owner published a 6,500-word essay outlining his hopes for the future of artificial intelligence and taking aim at critics and policymakers.
 
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Fortune
How Khloé Kardashian’s snack brand Khloud got ahead of the protein craze: ‘The timing was everything’
Khloud is winning over consumers at Target, Starbucks, and Walmart. For Khloé Kardashian, the journey to this point has been "a lot of trial and error."
 
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Digiday
S4 and Monks are trying to get ahead of rising AI token costs
Monks is considered a leader in AI marketing services, but “exploding” use of AI tokens poses difficult questions for execs focused on keeping costs down.
 
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SEMrush Blog
Topical Gravity: Why topics are the new unit of your search strategy
Search has become a topic-level game. Here‘s a framework to build, measure, and grow topical authority across AI and Google.
 
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Fast Company
‘Spider-Man,’ ‘The Odyssey,’ and the summer of movie screen maximalism
With moviegoers lining up for formats like IMAX and ScreenX, cinemas are returning to their original promise: give them something they can’t get at home.Could Spider-Man and Odysseus singlehandedly save the theatrical box office? Maybe not completely.
 
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Click Funnels
GoHighLevel Pricing 2026: Every Plan and Usage Fee Explained
 
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Social Media Today
Study highlights Reddit’s influence on purchase decisions
Users in the U.S. and the U.K. turn to the platform’s communities for advice and recommendations and often trust people on the app more than family or friends.
 
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Marketing Dive
CeraVe tackles tanmaxxing in social series to pitch Gen Z on SPF
The L'Oréal brand’s latest campaign taps home renovation tropes to engage a cohort that is increasingly prioritizing getting a tan over protecting their skin.
 
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Still Aggressively Poaching Agency Ads Accounts
I feel like a broken record and that Google simply does not care but again, I am seeing numerous reports from the PPC community about Google representatives attempting to poach their client accounts from them.
 
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Brian Solis
Beyond AI Automation: The Human Future of Work, Learning, and Communication
At Synthesia Live in New York, I had the privilege of closing a day dedicated to the future of AI video, learning, communication, and work.
 
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