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  • Why outdated fonts are hurting digital marketing performance

    Typography choices often feel like background decisions in digital marketing. Most teams default to familiar fonts like Arial, Tahoma, or Times New Roman without questioning how those choices shape readability, trust, and user experience. But according to new research from digital design studio Kraam, some of the internet’s most commonly used fonts may actually be…

  • OuterSignal acquires Monocle to combine customer intelligence and lifecycle AI

    OuterSignal has acquired Monocle as it works to build a full-stack “agentic” personalization platform that connects customer intelligence with automated lifecycle execution. The deal brings together OuterSignal’s enrichment and segmentation approach, which uses publicly available signals to add context to customer records, and Monocle’s autonomous agents that optimize lifecycle messaging across email, SMS, and web.…

  • OpenAI job posting points to expanded enterprise ads marketing push

    OpenAI has posted a “Head of Enterprise Ads Marketing” role focused on enterprise advertisers, agencies, and strategic brand partners. The job scope points to a more structured push to define positioning, build demand programs, and develop measurement frameworks for what it describes as its advertising solutions. Table of contents Jump to each section: What the…

  • Spotify’s disco ball logo sparked a branding trend, and marketers should pay attention

    Spotify’s 20th anniversary campaign was supposed to be a nostalgic trip through users’ listening habits. Instead, the internet became obsessed with something much shinier: the company’s temporary disco ball logo redesign. What started as a playful anniversary icon quickly turned into a broader social media phenomenon. Brands across tech, media, fashion, and creator platforms began…

  • How to refresh old content without hurting rankings

    Old content is not dead content. But left untouched for long enough, it starts to cost you. Rankings slip. Click-through rates drop. Competitors publish newer articles that push yours down the page. And in 2025 and beyond, the decay now happens faster than it used to, because AI search engines are adding their own freshness…

  • Olyzon raises $10M Series A for an agentic CTV decisioning layer

    Olyzon has closed a $10 million Series A round led by S4S Ventures, with participation from existing investor Eurazeo, to expand its agentic platform for connected TV (CTV) media buying. The funding is aimed at product development and geographic expansion, including scaling US operations and opening a London office, as the company positions itself as…

  • Google adds Universal Cart checkout and new AI Mode ad formats

    Google is standing up new commerce and advertising infrastructure that keeps shopping and ad interactions inside its own products, including Search, YouTube, and the Gemini app. The update centers on a native checkout capability called Universal Cart, alongside new ad formats in AI Mode and a cross-product marketing agent experience called Ask Advisor. Table of…

  • OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads tools in Australia with self-serve and CPC bidding

    OpenAI is expanding its ChatGPT advertising tools in Australia, adding partner buying and a beta self-serve Ads Manager alongside new bidding and measurement options. For marketers, the practical shift is less about a new ad format and more about whether conversational placements can be planned, measured, and optimized using familiar levers like CPC, conversion tracking,…

  • How to audit topical authority across your website

    Most marketers know they need topical authority. Far fewer know how to measure whether they actually have it. A topical authority audit is not the same as a standard content audit. You are not just checking word counts, bounce rates, or whether a page has a meta description. You are mapping how well your website…

  • Optimizely and Deloitte Digital team up on AI-driven marketing transformation

    Optimizely has entered a strategic technology collaboration with Deloitte Digital focused on helping brands operationalize AI-powered marketing, combining personalization, content, and experimentation capabilities with marketing operating model and change support. The partnership is positioned around a common enterprise constraint: many organizations are investing in AI, but struggle to convert that spend into measurable performance because…