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The Best Time to Post on TikTok in 2026: New Data from 7M Posts
Kirsti Lang
Kirsti analyzed 7.1 million TikTok posts to find the best time to post on TikTok in 2026. The single best time to post is Sunday at 9 a.m., with Saturday being the top-performing day for TikTok engagement.

Threads leans even further into podcasts with transcripts, analytics, and more
Ian Carlos Campbell
Meta is improving Threads for podcast promotion. Threads users can now share transcripts of shows, save episodes for later, and track the traffic Threads is driving to their podcast, all without leaving the app.

How to break through social media saturation in a world of overwhelm
Veronica Godsey
Veronica shares what your brand can do to overcome social media saturation: invest in original content, calibrate your content around audience preferences, and align with cultural moments.

How to manage multiple social media accounts in 2026
Hannah Macready
Hannah shares ten practical steps to build a clear, repeatable system for planning, publishing, engaging, and reporting across multiple social media accounts.

Google Adds New Ad Experience Metrics To CrUX Report
Roger Montti
Google introduced a new set of experimental Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) metrics that measure how advertising affects real-world user experience. These four new metrics are: Ad count, ad density, ad weight: CPU, and ad weight: network. Chrome is making the data available through the CrUX API, CrUX History API, and Chrome DevTools’ Ad panel. 

Apple Maps Ads Are Here: Everything You Need to Know
Amanda Rodhe
Amanda goes through what Apple Maps Ads are, how they work, a step-by-step setup guide, and why your business should consider them.

Microsoft Advertising Publishes AI Content Transparency Rules
Hana Kobzová 
Microsoft Advertising has introduced a dedicated help page outlining transparency rules for AI-generated and synthetic content. Advertisers must now disclose AI use in ads, preserve metadata, and avoid deepfakes to maintain consumer trust.

AI Overviews and paid search: When to fight, influence, or generate demand
Ana Kostic
Ana shares how to classify queries by intent and AI visibility to decide where to bid, influence the answer, or shift budget to demand generation.

Why Marketers Should Speak Plainly: 3 Drills To Remove Jargon
Robert Rose
Robert explains how plain-spoken language better demonstrates your industry and business expertise and shares three drills to cut jargon and improve marketing results.

8 AI Marketing Trends I’ve Seen Firsthand in 2026 (Backed by Data)
Ryan Law
Ryan shares eight AI marketing trends he's watched play out over the past year: new marketing job titles being invented in real time, agentic everything (marketing, commerce, and search that takes action), marketing getting more cross-functional as AI blurs the lines, and more.

Why the brands that publish first increasingly win AI visibility
Jack Lenton
AI has turned the search landscape on its head. Jack shares why brands that identify trends early are winning more citations, authority, and AI visibility.

The future of content isn’t writing. It’s thinking
Andrew Holland
Andrew goes through how SEO content is getting cheaper to produce, shifting value toward the ideas, expertise, judgment, and experience behind the words.

Perplexity is betting big on creators
Krystal Scanlon, Seb Joseph 
AI companies face a tricky sell: convincing creators to advocate for a technology many fear could threaten their livelihoods. Krystal and Seb go through it. 

How to Build a Profitable BFCM Strategy in 2026
Kalin Anastasov
Kalin explains how to build a profitable Black Friday and Cyber Monday strategy for 2026 with practical steps for offers, acquisition, operations, measurement, and retention.

Meta adds more creator partnership tools
Andrew Hutchinson
Meta officially launched its new Creator Marketing Hub, a dedicated platform that will provide access to all of Meta’s discovery and outreach options in a single UI. These expansions will let third-party tools facilitate creator partnerships, extending opportunities for marketers looking to tap into creator audiences.

Inside the creator economy’s AI reckoning
Brianne Garrett
Brianne shares how AI has reshaped the creator economy faster than the law can follow. Creators, consultants, and strategists share how they're using it and where they're drawing the line.

​Google AI Ranking Factors​
Cyrus Shepard 
Cyrus shares survey responses from more than 130 search experts on what influences inclusion in AI Overviews and AI Mode: Crawl access, relevance, brand familiarity, and specific, citable facts feature prominently. The results offer a useful view of expert priorities, while reflecting beliefs rather than experimentally confirmed ranking factors.​

What Cloudflare’s 15 September change actually did to AI crawler access​
SeenSure
SeenSure tested access across 1,046 websites using eight crawler identities and browser controls. After September 15, refusals increased for training crawler identities on Cloudflare hosted sites but decreased for search and agent identities, while the non-Cloudflare control remained stable.​

Agentic Search Readiness: What Businesses Need to Build Now ​
Gianluca Fiorelli, Bastian Grimm 
Gianluca and Bastian discuss how businesses can prepare for agentic search through machine-readable information, reliable data, clear instructions, and practical experimentation. They go through evolving protocols, brand recognition, and how to test opportunities while being transparent about what remains uncertain.