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Paramount, Warner, and the Price of Consolidation

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Paramount, Warner, and the Price of Consolidation

Stanley Plowman’s animated graphics take inspiration from electronic music and imperfections

Stanley Plowman is a graphic designer and animator who is merging the print-based with his computer to create work that bursts with sound, particularly electronic music. When Stanley finds himself attracted to a particular sound – and wonders how on Earth it was achieved – he often follows this thought up by exploring how he

Why SEO Automation Still Needs Human Judgment

AI tools can do a lot of SEO now. Draft content. Suggest keywords. Generate metadata. Flag potential issues. We’re well past the novelty stage. But for all the speed and surface-level utility, there’s a hard truth underneath: AI still gets things wrong. And when it does, it does it convincingly. It hallucinates stats. Misreads query

B2B firms suffer from poor GTM understanding

MarTechCharts regularly highlights data of interest to marketers and marketing operations professionals. Fewer than half (47%) of marketers surveyed for a report on B2B growth say they have a structured GTM framework. Even more worrisome, 53% of respondents selected the incorrect answer when asked to define “GTM.” The report, “Unlocking B2B Growth: How a Winning

The 6 best Unreal Engine 5 remakes so far

The best Unreal Engine 5 remakes show why Epic Game’s powerful real-time development toolset has become so popular for making games. We’ve seen everything from official remakes of AAA games from big developers to fan recreations of their favourite retro titles in stunning 3D realism. We’ve got Konami’s Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater coming

Googlebot Crawl Slump? Mueller Points To Server Errors

A Reddit thread about a sharp crawl drop prompted guidance from Google’s John Mueller. Here’s how to diagnose the cause. Sudden crawl drops are more consistent with 429/500/503 responses or timeouts than with 404s. Once issues are fixed, crawl rates should recover, though it can take time. There’s no defined timeline for recovery.

Forget about the tech, OpenAI and Perplexity are brands too

AI companies keep forgetting they’re brands — and it’s costing them. A week apart, OpenAI and Perplexity reminded everyone that in 2025, AI isn’t just about technology. It’s about brand. From user outrage over latest updates to theatrical headlines for attention — the fallout has been fast and public. On one side: OpenAI replaced older

“The ability to test and learn is great for growth”

I think the fact that you have a full-time job and are gaining direct client experience is important. Don’t disregard the experience you’re currently building, especially soft skills like communication, punctuality, teamwork, and managing upwards. All of those things will have a direct impact on how you move forward as a designer and a creative.

Local SEO ‘Best Practices’ Aren’t Universal: Yext Study

A new Yext analysis of 8.7 million Google search results suggests many common local SEO tactics don’t perform the same across industries and regions. The dataset, drawn from the company’s Scout Index, focuses on what correlates with visibility in Google’s Local Pack, not just overall map presence. What Yext Found Review Management Emerges As The

ABC News Receives the Most Edward R. Murrow Awards

Top of the Ticker: ABC News led all national news outlets, receiving six awards at the 2025 National Edward R. Murrow Awards, including Overall Excellence in the Network TV and Network Radio categories. NBC News received five awards, followed by CBS News and Al Jazeera with three apiece. MSNBC, NewsNation, Scripps News, Univision, and AJ+

Taylor Swift’s new album sparks the hottest branding trend of 2025

When Taylor Swift announced her upcoming album The Life of a Showgirl, she probably wasn’t expecting to drop the hottest new branding trend of 2025. Inspired by Taylor’s cryptic marketing campaign, iconic brands have hopped on the bandwagon, playfully paying homage to the star’s highly anticipated release. It’s not surprising since Miss Swift is known

AI-Powered Search: Adapting Your SEO Strategy

Using outdated and traditional SEO tactics centered around keywords and backlinks is not moving the needle anymore, as Google shifts toward AI-driven answers. Organic clicks are going down as a result of Google AI Overviews and the rise of zero-click searches, where users get answers directly on Google’s search results page without clicking through to

How is AI reshaping martech replacements? Share your insights

TL;DR: Take the 2025 MarTech Replacement Survey. The 2024 MarTech Replacement Survey gave us insights into how marketers evaluate and replace their technology tools. A clear majority of the 2024 respondents reported replacing a martech solution in the past year — most often with a commercial application. Cost emerged as the top consideration in 2024

Art director, design and painter Na Kim on how she juggles three artist outputs

Na Kim, acclaimed designer and art director at The Paris Review, took to the stage at June’s Nicer Tuesday in New York City to tell us about her humble beginnings smoking cigarettes and shoplifting to juggling several jobs and learning design. She talked about taking professional leaps and balancing artistic outputs as well as the

Google Brings AI Trip-Finding To Google Flights

Google adds an AI “Flight Deals” tool to Google Flights, part of a broader push into vertical, conversational search experiences. Google launched Flight Deals in Google Flights. It’s rolling out in the U.S., Canada, and India next week. Google Flights adds a basic-economy exclusion in the U.S. and Canada.

Inside a global agency’s AI decision making process

While most AI companies have headquarters in Silicon Valley, U.S. federal lawmakers have not yet broached regulating the sector. President Donald Trump has even gone so far as to encourage the tech’s development and removal of federal regulations that could hinder AI development and deployment in The White House’s AI framework. However, it’s a nuanced

Discover the work of a digital artist who blends personal influences with striking utopian fantasy

Based in France, Jessica Liu is a self-taught freelance artist who specialises in illustrations and character art. She tends to work in Procreate and Clip Studio Paint (both of which feature in our guide to the best digital art software), and her work is often fantasy themed. With a particular focus on shape and colour,

ChatGPT-5 Now Connects To Gmail, Calendar, And Contacts

OpenAI announced that it has added connectors to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts for ChatGPT Plus users, enabling ChatGPT to use data from those apps within ChatGPT chats. ChatGPT Connectors A connector is a bridge between ChatGPT and an external app like Canva, Dropbox, and Gmail, enabling users to connect those apps to ChatGPT

Who’s In and Who’s Out at MSNBC as Versant Spin-Off Looms (Updated)

MSNBC’s final separation from the NBCUniversal News Group is fast approaching. The network will join Versant once Comcast’s spin-off company officially launches later this year. MSNBC is in the process of hiring more than 100 journalists, and is also on the hunt for new office and studio space. The move away from NBC News’ home

why music now comes with its own visual universe

Founders and creative directors of the Los Angeles-based studio See You Later, Darrius Medina and TJ Hoover, see this need to chase uniqueness to be viral as a result of post-pandemic music culture and the explosion of TikTok, which has contributed a flood of new artists all trying to differentiate themselves. Darrius and TJ, who

Multimodal Search Is Reshaping The Funnel For SEOs And Marketers

For years, marketers built their strategies around a clear and visible funnel: awareness, consideration, conversion. It worked well in a web where behaviors were traceable, people clicked links, visited pages, signed up, bought a product, or bounced. We were able to track almost all of it, and we had attribution models that helped show return

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