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AIMicrosoft: 32% of Thai AI users are advanced "Frontier Professionals", double the 16% global figure
Microsoft published Thailand findings from its Work Trend Index 2026 on 4 August 2026. Thai respondents report advanced AI use at twice…
eCommerce MarketingGoogle Merchant Center adds an experimental Deal Ends countdown badge to Product Listing Ads
A Google Merchant Center help document, reported by Search Engine Roundtable on 6 August 2026, describes an experimental Deal Ends countdown badge…
geoEvidence that serving markdown to AI bots does not increase citations
Digiday's Media Briefing of 6 August 2026 sets out the case for and against serving markdown to AI crawlers. GEO platform Promptwatch…
geoThose junk one-word queries in Search Console are AI Mode follow-up questions
Search Engine Roundtable reported on 6 August 2026 that the strange one-word queries appearing in Google Search Console are AI Mode follow-up…
SEOGoogle says on the record that Reddit gets no special preference in its ranking systems
Google communications representative Jennifer Kutz told The Verge that Reddit gets no special preference in Google's ranking system, and that AI search…
AIGoogle sets 4 September 2026 as the date it starts removing Google Assistant from phones
Google has begun emailing users to say Google Assistant is being discontinued on mobile devices. Removal of access starts on 4 September…
Google AdsGoogle Ads is piloting a block on free email accounts for sensitive account actions
Google published a help document saying it is piloting a requirement that only corporate email accounts can complete sensitive actions on a…
Google AdsGoogle publishes a video Q&A on the 17 August budget-limited bidding change
Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin has posted a five-minute video answering three questions about the bidding change that takes effect on 17…
SEOReport: Cloudflare's AI crawler blocking is returning 403s to Googlebot, weeks before the September deadline
A user report says Cloudflare's AI bot blocking made Googlebot and Bingbot receive HTTP 403 on a sitemap request. Search Engine Journal…
Social Media MarketingSnap's Q2 2026 ad growth came from higher prices, not more impressions
Snap Inc. reported Q2 2026 results on 3 August 2026: advertising revenue up 9%, with the Form 10-Q attributing the increase to…
geoPeople Inc. says Google search traffic is down 40% and it still will not block Google's AI crawlers
People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel told Digiday on 4 August 2026 that the publisher will not block Google's AI crawlers because AI…
SEONew York passes a Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act as unidentified bots ignore robots.txt
New York's Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act passed in June 2026 and awaits the governor's signature, requiring bots to disclose identity and purpose.…
Social Media MarketingLinkedIn now puts event ad viewership lift at 31x, eight months after reporting 31%
LinkedIn's 30 July 2026 event-ads framework claims 31 times more viewers for promoted company-hosted events, eight months after reporting a 31% lift.…
geoIAB publishes an AI visibility measurement framework and says only 16% of brands track it
The IAB released a 36-page framework called Measuring Visibility in the AI Era on 3 August 2026, reported by PPC Land the…
Google AdsGoogle Ads Ad Preview and Diagnosis is serving an unclearable reCAPTCHA, advertisers report
Search Engine Roundtable reported on 4 August 2026 that the Ad Preview and Diagnosis tool loads a CAPTCHA box that cannot be…
Content MarketingCanva names its first Thailand country manager and puts Thai adoption in its global top 10
Canva has appointed Max-Pakpol Tangtongchin as its first Thailand Country Manager and released Thai usage figures through a 5 August 2026 interview.…
eCommerce MarketingAmazon Sponsored Products starts serving through Influencer creators on 10 August, and every advertiser is opted in by default
Amazon begins serving Sponsored Products through Influencer Programme creators on 10 August 2026 with advertisers automatically enrolled. Top of Search and Product…
Tiktok AdsTikTok adds ByteDance's Dreamina Seedance 2.5 to its ad platform
TikTok announced on 3 August 2026 that ByteDance's Dreamina Seedance 2.5 is now in its ad platform, lifting generated clips from 15…
geoMicrosoft Clarity now splits AI citations into branded and non-branded queries
Microsoft has added branded-versus-non-branded query segmentation to the AI Citations dashboard in Clarity, PPC Land reported on 3 August 2026. The five-query…
SEOGoogle Trends now compares 400 search terms, but classic explore still caps at 125
Search Engine Roundtable reported on 3 August 2026 that Google Trends now compares up to 400 search terms across 8 groups. Google…
SEOGoogle ranking volatility hit 1 to 3 August, and Google has confirmed nothing
Search Engine Roundtable reported a spike in third-party rank trackers from 1 to 3 August 2026, backed by forum chatter. Google has…
analyticsGoogle's Data Manager API adds a one-call audience wipe and field-level ingestion warnings
Google published a Data Manager API update on 30 July 2026 adding RemoveAllAudienceMembers, warnings for optional-field validation issues, and more address fields…
Google AdsGoogle documents text disclaimer assets for responsive search ads, and they override your pinned description line 1
Google's Google Ads Help Center documentation describes a 90-character text disclaimer asset for responsive search ads. It always overrides a pinned description…