If your For You page has recently started whispering about a creek, don’t worry: You have not accidentally wandered onto FishingTok. “Quiet on the creek” is the latest TikTok catchphrase to escape the app. People are whispering it, dancing to it, and dropping it into comment sections whenever someone reveals a little too much information.…
Google has started rolling out generative UI into AI Overviews. The capability builds custom visual layouts, interactive tools, and simulations on the fly. Until now, it only lived in AI Mode, Google said in a back-to-school announcement Wednesday. In practice, generative UI usually produces a custom visual layout. Sometimes, when Google’s model decides it would…
In my previous article “When AI Takes The Click, Click Worthiness Should Guide Your Strategy,” I introduced click worthiness as a framework for deciding where organizations should continue investing as AI increasingly answers customers’ initial questions. Click Worthiness helps identify the interactions where engaging directly with a customer still creates meaningful business value. That naturally…
A lot of marketing teams and individuals assume that a big social presence on Facebook and Instagram means they will get cited in AI answers and AI Overviews. That is not always the case. AI engines cite social content all the time now. However, they do not cite you because you have a big following.…
Nobody online wants to be polyester right now. That is not a compliment. According to the Gen-Z lexicon, something “polyester” is a way of saying it feels cheap, mass-produced, low-effort, or inauthentic. It might look polished at first glance, but underneath the sheen, something about it feels artificial. A generic influencer brand can be polyester.…
True-crime fandom no longer wants to watch from the sidelines; it increasingly wants in on the case. Consider the recent lineup: TikTok helped pull the Menendez brothers back into the national conversation decades after their convictions. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial became daily social media programming. Luigi Mangione developed an intense internet fandom…
On Aug. 4, a Nike customization trailer pulled up outside Gamma Phi Beta at the University of Alabama. Inside were sneakers, fleeces, and other gear that members could personalize with sorority details. Outside, three videographers waited to capture the results. The event brought 150 women through the trailer, according to Campus Launch, the sorority-marketing agency…
By the time you read this analysis, the realization that the NY Jets will not be winning the big game this season has hit us all. That is both old and new, much like the concept of email campaigns, but this time, tied to paid media in “search.” But first, a big thank you to…
The single largest AI crawler on my website over the past day was not an AI crawler. It arrived roughly 1,500 times under Common Crawl’s name; it sent back nothing, and what it wanted was my SSH keys. I went looking because of a number. Cloudflare’s CFO Told Analysts Machine Traffic Could Reach 1,000 Times…
The single largest AI crawler on my website over the past day was not an AI crawler. It arrived roughly 1,500 times under Common Crawl’s name; it sent back nothing, and what it wanted was my SSH keys. I went looking because of a number. Cloudflare’s CFO Told Analysts Machine Traffic Could Reach 1,000 Times…