An advisory was issued for the Ocean Extra WordPress plugin that is susceptible to stored cross-site scripting, which enables attackers to upload malicious scripts that execute on the site when a user visits the affected website. Ocean Extra WordPress Plugin The vulnerability affects only the Ocean Extra plugin by oceanwp, a plugin that extends the
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Taz Patel, head of advertising and shopping at the AI search startup Perplexity, has left the company after nine months, the startup confirmed to ADWEEK. Patel joined Perplexity in December 2024, and was tasked with building out the 3-year-old startup’s fledgling ads business. He was previously chief revenue officer and co-founder of the influencer-marketing firm
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If you spend long enough working in design, you’ll eventually need to sell something you would never buy. Don’t get me wrong – most of what I’ve worked on has been for fields that feel easy, even inspiring, to get behind, like voting rights groups, non-alcoholic beverages, slow fashion, or plant-based proteins. Others are in
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Google is apparently having trouble identifying paywalled content due to a standard way paywalled content is handled by publishers like news sites. It’s asking that publishers with paywalled content change the way they block content so as to help Google out. Search Related JavaScript Problems Google updated their guidelines with a call for publishers to
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This article was co-authored with Michael Maziarka, VP Analyst in the Gartner Marketing Practice, specializing in customer experience, customer success management and customer marketing programs. For years, B2B marketers have depended on surveys, focus groups and website feedback forms to understand their audiences. And according to our findings at Gartner, 61% of organizations still do.
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This week it’s the 70th birthday of the Guinness Book of Records, that gloriously bonkers compendium of human achievement that celebrates the people who can stuff the most marshmallows in their mouth, balance the most spoons on their body, and hula hoop underwater for the longest time. It features everything from standard athletic victories to
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A vulnerability in the TablePress WordPress plugin enables attackers to inject malicious scripts that run when someone visits a compromised page. It affects all versions up to and including version 3.2. TablePress WordPress plugin The TablePress plugin is used on more than 700,000 websites. It enables users to create and manage tables with interactive features
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As the summer draws to a close, it’s safe to say it hasn’t been a quiet one. From CEO departures, trials and agency changes — not only has there not been a dull moment since Cannes Lions, the busy period has never stopped. Which is why, before we head into the final stretch of the
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The song’s drop coincides perfectly with the peak of the Labubu craze. Léa’s maximalist style, which uses visual clutter, noise and chaos, fits hand in hand with the song’s metaphors of collectables, keepsakes and trinkets – it’s a match made in heaven. Léa and Ashnikko realised they had the same reference in mind for the
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Google states that AI Max for Search can run in low-volume accounts, confirming there’s no minimum conversion recommendation. However, you must use a conversion-based Smart Bidding strategy for search-term matching to work. The clarification was provided during Google’s Ads Decoded podcast, where product managers discussed recent launches. What Google Said In the “Ads Decoded” podcast
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Steve Hayden, the visionary advertising executive behind some of the most influential campaigns of the modern era, died on Aug. 27 at the age of 78. Hayden began his career as a copywriter at General Motors in Detroit. His career took off at Chiat/Day in the 1980s, where he partnered with Lee Clow and Brent
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To me, smartphone brand Nothing has always stood out as a slick outsider – the perfect alternative to those resistant to the Apple vs Android rivalry – so it came as a surprise to me when it was recently in the throes of controversy. It turns out the brand was caught using stock photos to
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WordPress is still the most popular open-source content management system (CMS) – by far – powering 43.5 % of all websites on the web, and still in my opinion the most adaptable CMS to work with. However, WordPress isn’t just a plug-and-play CMS. If you’re in the marketing team or the CMO, you may find
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Attributed revenue, ROAS, conversion rate — traditional marketing metrics track efficiency but often miss the signals that reveal which customers drive growth. Today, first-party customer data is more accessible and valuable than ever. And when combined with AI, it opens the door to a new era of customer-centered performance measurement. Customer analytics shifts the focus
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Ida Anderson lived in Moscow for 20 years before she realised she couldn’t stay anymore. After Russia’s war against Ukraine began, she made the move to Montenegro after always dreaming of living by the sea: “I found something deeply healing about the Adriatic coast after everything that happened,” says Ida. That same healing blue is
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This post was sponsored by Cloudways. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Wondering why your rankings may be declining? Just discovered your WooCommerce site has slow load times? A slow WooCommerce site doesn’t just cost you conversions. It affects search visibility, backend performance, and customer trust. Whether you’re a developer running
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The sunny days are turning colder, the kids are headed back to school, and Amazon appears to have concluded its market-quaking pause on Google search spending. Summer’s over, it seems, for performance marketers. Back in July, Amazon cut its investment in Google Shopping ads down to almost nothing in every market it operated globally. The
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We’ve all suffered through them: pop stars and celebrities picking up a paintbrush and foisting upon us artworks that feel like PR stunts in disguise. Robbie Williams, James Franco, Joel Lyucett, it’s like a conveyor belt of art crimes you can’t escape from. Then there’s Ringo Starr, the Beatle, the drummer, the eternal peace-and-love ambassador.
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New research from BrightEdge shows that Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, and ChatGPT recommend different brands nearly 62% of the time. BrightEdge concludes that each AI search platform is interpreting the data in different ways, suggesting different ways of thinking about each AI platform. Methodology And Results BrightEdge’s analysis was conducted with its AI Catalyst
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Walgreens laid off its media-buying team in July, ADWEEK has learned. The cuts amount to about 15 positions, according to one source with direct knowledge. The changes come as Walgreens refocuses on its core retail and pharmacy operations. In its Q3 earnings, Walgreens reported a $175 million loss, though sales rose 7% to $39 billion.
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