Google’s Search Antitrust Ruling: What Advertisers Should Check Next
Federal rulings in 2024 and 2025 examined how Google runs its advertising business.
Content marketing and search
Federal rulings in 2024 and 2025 examined how Google runs its advertising business.
Search engine optimization (SEO) teams have long used rankings, organic traffic, and conversions to understand how people find and engage with content. Those signals still matter, but they don’t show whether a brand appears in AI-generated answers.
The holdco and the ad-tech platform are taking in-content ad insertion to a new level, identifying scenes that can be monetized contextually.
Content marketers are used to publishing consistently, earning trust, and measuring how content contributes to demand. But now, buyers also do their research in AI assistants and answer engines, sometimes without clicking through to a website.
That puts AI ahead of YouTube as a source of signups, and second only to Google. If we’d relied on our referral traffic alone, we’d have badly undersold it. Most AI influence happens out of sight. A buyer can read … Read more ›
Forrester found 94% of business buyers now use AI search when buying, rating it above vendor websites, product experts, and sales reps. B2C isn’t far behind: NielsenIQ puts it at 42% of consumers researching products with AI. That’s why bigger … Read more ›
Advertisers are wary of discounting away their profit margins, but find it hard to argue against increasing ad spend with e-commerce titan.
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