This post was sponsored by JetOctopus. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. How do I optimize my site for ChatGPT and Perplexity, not just Google? How do I know if AI bots are actually crawling my site? How should my technical SEO strategy change for AI Search? A significant portion of…
I was walking over to take the stage at SMMW 2026 in Anaheim, California, last Thursday, listening intently to Steve Huffman, founder and CEO of Reddit, talk about the last quarter at Reddit, but more importantly, to get a sense of what the focus would be for the rest of the year. Question after question,…
Y Combinator general partner Aaron Epstein was joined by Raphael Schaad, founder of Cron that was sold to Notion, to discuss common mistakes made with AI designed websites. They identified seven common mistakes vibe coders made with their websites that should be avoided. Positive And Negatives The podcast started out by acknowledging that being able…
Since we’ve been able to produce content at scale through AI, there have been graph screenshots littering X and LinkedIn, usually case studies or as part of sales materials. An SEO I know well, Martin Sean Fennon, shared an example of an ongoing brand case study, scaling content through AI, and how the content is…
This month’s Ask the PPC question about AI ad placements is near and dear to my heart. We’ve seen ads begin showing up on AI surfaces since 2024, and yet, they still have an air of mystery about them: “Ads are starting to show up in AI chat experiences. How should advertisers think about these new…
Google is rolling out five updates to how links appear in its generative AI Search experiences, including AI Mode and AI Overviews. The changes add subscription labels and inline links within responses, among other features. Here’s an example of how the changes will appear: Image Credit: Google Hema Budaraju, VP of Product Management, wrote about…
Vine is back. Sort of. Which is a strange sentence to say in 2026. Almost a decade after the popular short-form video app had its doors shuttered by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, it has been relaunched as Divine, funded by the very same man who killed it. Divine serves as both a new host…
It seems like every week another app or digital platform shuts down unexpectedly, and this time social media app Threads may be experiencing an outage. On the morning of May 5, multiple Mashable editors were unable to access the Threads app. DownDetector showed a spike in user error reports for Threads beginning around 8:30 a.m.…
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! Am I still an advisor? Or a builder? I’m having an existential moment. My work has forever changed in a way I’m still trying to understand. Six months ago, agentic vibe coding crossed a threshold. Since then, I have used AI to raise…
Amid the second phase of a high-profile child safety trial in New Mexico, Meta is announcing new measures designed to ensure teens on its platforms are subject to age-related protections. Meta announced in a blog post Tuesday that parents in the U.S. on two of its social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, will receive a…