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Selling To AI: The Complete Guide To Agentic Commerce via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic
The next phase of ecommerce is being shaped by AI agents, open commerce protocols, and payment systems built for transactions without a human at checkout.
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The Petrillo complications
80 years ago, the most important person in the music business was James Petrillo. It’s difficult to imagine the head of the musician’s union on the cover of Time magazine, but there he was. Petrillo saw how technology was changing an industry and pushed for changes in the flow of credit and royalties. The story
AI Adoption Outpaced The PC & Internet: Dive Into The Stanford Report Data via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index covers 400+ pages of data. Here’s what search professionals should take from the adoption numbers, reliability gaps, and transparency decline.
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The book of concern
“Wait a second.” That’s difficult advice. In a world that moves faster with each cycle, where urgencies are prioritized and last-minute saves are celebrated, it’s not always welcome advice. And so we’ve ended up concerned. Fretting. Worried. Looking for the next thing to drop everything for. The book of concern is more than a conceptual
OpenAI begins rolling out ads in select markets
OpenAI’s expansion of ads into new markets signals growing opportunities for brands to reach users inside AI-driven experiences.
Google Ads tests direct Google Tag Manager integration for conversion setup
A new Google Ads integration with Google Tag Manager could make conversion tracking faster to set up and less prone to errors.
Why bottom-of-funnel content is winning in AI search
Traffic is falling as AI answers replace clicks. The upside: bottom-of-funnel content converts better. Here’s how to turn that into pipeline.
AI traffic converts better than non-AI visits for U.S. retailers: Report
AI traffic to U.S. retail sites is up — and it’s converting better than traditional channels like paid search, according to new Adobe data.
U.S. search ad revenue reached $114.2 billion in 2025
Search remained the largest ad channel in 2025, but growth slowed as advertisers shifted spend to newer, AI-driven formats.