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Social Media MarketingLinkedIn now ranks post comments per viewer
LinkedIn has moved comment display to a per viewer relevance ranking using professional interests, connections and engagement activity, as reported on 9…
geoCloudflare now scores your brand inside Claude and GPT answers
Cloudflare's AEO Visibility Dashboard reports citation rate, mention rate, prominence, share of voice, industry fit and AI operator activity, but only across…
geoA file about office cats broke the llms.txt evidence
Mark Williams-Cook invented a satirical cats.txt standard and showed it cleared every test cited as evidence for llms.txt. The argument is about…
Google AdsUK tribunal certifies opt-out advertiser claim against Google
The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal granted a Collective Proceedings Order against six Google group companies on 5 August 2026, sending a GBP…
eCommerce MarketingAmazon MCF now fulfils TikTok Shop orders through nine named apps
TikTok Shop Academy guidance dated 6 August 2026 documents Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment as a route for TikTok Shop orders, through nine named…
YoutubeYouTube Tests Image Ads During Mobile Landscape Playback
Search Engine Land reported on 7 August 2026 that YouTube is testing static image ads overlaying landscape mobile playback, reportedly about every…
General topicsWordPress 7.0.3 patches a high-severity login screen XSS flaw
WordPress 7.0.3 landed on 6 August 2026 with fixes for twelve vulnerabilities, led by a pre-authentication reflected XSS on the login screen…
Tiktok AdsTikTok Shop's new off-site sales report measures Shopify and DTC revenue but excludes Amazon, Walmart and offline stores
TikTok Shop published documentation on 6 August 2026 for an Off-site Performance Analysis report measuring revenue driven to a seller's own site,…
Tiktok AdsTikTok Shop bans minors from selling on camera in US creator videos and livestreams
TikTok Shop published a policy dated 4 August 2026 barring minors from active selling on camera in US creator videos and livestreams,…
AI75% of Thai consumers use generative AI while organisational AI maturity sits near 10%
A True Corporation executive said 75% of Thai people have started using generative AI while the AI maturity of Thai organisations sits…
analyticsShopify GA4 integration adds four events on 17 August, only purchase is server-side
Google emailed Shopify merchants that from 17 August 2026 the GA4 integration sends view_item_list, remove_from_cart, view_cart and add_shipping_info. Littledata's Edward Upton says…
Social Media MarketingReddit Plans to Surface Old Reviews and Add Shopping Listing Ads
On Reddit's Q2 2026 earnings call, reported by Search Engine Journal on 5 August 2026, Steve Huffman said Reddit intends to surface…
metaNew Mexico court fines Meta $567 million and caps teen app use
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million on 6 August 2026 and to change how Facebook and Instagram work…
eCommerce MarketingAmazon DSP moves existing advertisers to one global account across 34 countries
Amazon began automatically upgrading existing Amazon DSP-only accounts to a unified advertiser account on 30 July 2026, covering 34 countries across five…
Google AdsAI Max now expands 29% of exact match impressions, smec finds
Mike Ryan of Smarter Ecommerce analysed 383 million impressions and found roughly 29% of exact match keyword impressions were expanded by AI…
eCommerce MarketingYouTube Shopping affiliate programme opens in the UK, and Thailand is already on the list
YouTube launched its Shopping Affiliate Programme in the UK with six retailers and a temporary 100% commission pass-through. Thailand is already among…
General topicsWordPress 7.1 rewrites admin list-table markup and may break plugin CSS
WordPress 7.1 arrives on 19 August 2026 and changes the HTML of admin post list tables to fix an 11-year-old accessibility bug.…
Social Media MarketingSnap launches an official Snapchat Ads MCP Server for AI agents
Snap launched the Snapchat Ads MCP Server on 3 August 2026, an official connection between its ad platform and Claude, ChatGPT and…
eCommerce MarketingKroger launched an AI shopping assistant with the ads already switched on
Kroger's new AI shopping assistant carries sponsored Product Listing Ads from launch, where Walmart and OpenAI both added advertising later.
Google AdsGoogle extends Limited Ad Serving policy across all Google Ads
Google's 5 August 2026 change log extends Limited Ad Serving from Search to all Google Ads. Ads are not disapproved; impressions are…
SEOGoogle's crawlers do send HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH and DELETE, and it is your JavaScript doing it
Gary Illyes of Google said on LinkedIn that Google's crawlers send HTTP methods beyond GET and POST, but they account for less…
SEOGoogle Business Profile in Gemini now works for multi-location accounts
PPC Land reported on 7 August 2026 that the Business Profile integration in Gemini now supports multi-location accounts worldwide on desktop and…
Google AdsGoogle Ads adds a report-only new customer setting, retiring the 0.01 workaround
Google Ads is rolling out Report on new customers acquired, a measurement-only setting that gives the new versus existing customer split without…
Google AdsGoogle Ads is testing clickable hyperlinks inside Search ad descriptions
A screenshot posted by PPC marketer Nayan Prakash shows keyword-rich hyperlinks inside Google Search ad descriptions, leading to the ad's own landing…