For a wedding with a reported 1,000-person guest list, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s alleged Madison Square Garden celebration still appears to have a velvet rope. The reported wedding has become a full-blown spectacle in the middle of sweltering-hot Manhattan, with fans, photographers, and celebrity-watchers all trying to figure out who will actually make it…
In 2026, the fastest news delivery system in Washington still appears to be a sweaty intern in sneakers. After the Supreme Court handed down a series of major rulings on June 30 — including a landmark decision on birthright citizenship and rulings on transgender athletes and campaign finance limits — interns were once again seen…
Last week, I argued that habitual publisher traffic – direct and branded – has been eroding for years, and that the under-35s are leading the charge. Not directly provable, but a theory. Now that I am no longer part of that cohort, it’s easier to pin the blame on them. Which is entirely what I…
In May, I wrote that the new search user was the trend and that Google’s product announcements were the distraction. Google has now handed us a year’s worth of data that confirms the behavioral shift and puts specific numbers on it. In the report “How People Are Using AI Mode in the U.S.” (published May…
AI has been public enemy No. 1 for at least two years. As the early wave of excitement wore off, people realized the content we, as SEOs and publishers, had spent years flooding the internet with was being used to make the richest even richer. We cannot deny the open web is changing – AI…
Avinash Kaushik has a gift for puncturing comfortable myths with uncomfortable data, and recently he dismissed a persistent meme that senior leaders pressure their organizations to adopt AI while quietly staying in the 1990s themselves. Notion data, he shared in his post, shows that most senior people, including CEOs, are actually the most advanced AI…
I keep getting the same question from clients and SEOs (GEOs?). “How do we show up in ChatGPT?” The answer is always the same. Write good content, do listicles, comment on Reddit. The usual. But, how do we actually know any of that works? Most of it gets repeated on faith, one expert quoting the…
A first-round match at Wimbledon is not usually treated like the main event. Serena Williams’ return is one of the exceptions. Williams, 44, is set to play 20-year-old Australian Maya Joint on Tuesday, June 30, in her first Wimbledon singles match since 2022, and tennis fans are abuzz with anticipation. This Tweet is currently unavailable.…
Kevin Indig’s Growth Memo offers disciplined strategic analysis in the SEO and growth field, and his columns rarely veer from careful, evidence-grounded argument. So, when he stepped outside his usual lane in June 2026 to say, simply, “Stop trying to replace people with AI,” it was more diagnosis than vent. Indig calls the phenomenon “substitution…
Australia’s teen social media ban has been in effect since December, and the government’s verdict on how it’s going is pretty clear: not well enough. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced this week that Australia will double the maximum penalty for violating its social media minimum age law, raising the fine ceiling from $AUD49.5 million ($US33…