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AI can support marketing implementation, but experienced marketers must guide strategy, evaluate work and stay accountable for results.
AI usage surges 6X for local search, fragmenting the digital ecosystem
Local search behavior now straddles multiple platforms, with consumers traversing a 'verification loop' to find actionable information.
What 714 suppression campaigns show about pushing down negative results
Starting position and top 10 placements decided the outcome, not publishing volume. Plus why Page 2 isn't far enough for AI Overviews.
Retail media is evolving. Here is what marketers should value now
Navigating fragmented retail media networks is exhausting. Discover how to evaluate key partners, prove incrementality, and build a cohesive commerce strategy.
CPC’s up, conversions down? Orchestrate data to find performance shifts
Decision Intelligence joins your Google Ads or ChatGPT Ads data to the whole market and hands back the action, not another chart to read.
3 ways to make AI safer in a live ad account
Automation layering techniques can be deployed to successfully make AI-driven PPC safer.
Your marketing agent is working. Can you see what informs its recommendations?
Agentic marketing works best when marketers can inspect the data and evidence driving an agent's recommendations.
Why growing restaurant chains win at local search and AI visibility
Research finds a measurable digital visibility gap between expanding and shrinking restaurant chains across search, reviews, social, and AI.
The power of connected customer history
Why transaction data alone isn't enough for performance marketing, and how persistent customer profiles change the equation.
Why the F.A.C.T.S. model is the key to search everywhere optimization
Learn how to boost visibility across search, social, reputation, and AI using SOCi's F.A.C.T.S. model for multi-location brands.
AI can knock on the door. Your CRM marketing platform is still the house.
AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can now plug straight into your marketing systems. That connection is powerful. But it doesn't replace the platform behind it. It depends on it.
AI is building your digital experience. It’s also making it less accessible.
AI is generating more of the web, and it's carrying the same accessibility gaps with it. Marketing has the leverage to close them
5 strategies for increasing AI visibility without messing up your SEO
Learn how to balance AEO and search performance with smarter content decisions, stronger third-party validation, and pages built for retrieval.
What 15.7 million AI Mode citations reveal about getting quoted by Google
A year-long study of 15.7 million AI Mode citations across 148 industries shows exactly which passages Google highlights — and reuses.
5 strategies to remove negative search results in 2026
How to remove, deindex, and suppress negative content in Google and why AI search changes the reputation playbook this year.
Your client just asked if they show up in ChatGPT. Now what?
It's the top new client request of 2026, and most agencies still can't answer it with data. Here's what you can measure today.
Your DAM solved the library problem. The activation problem is next.
Centralized, tagged, governed. And still slow. Here's what your DAM was never designed to do.
9 must-have SEO tools every marketer should use in 2026
Stay ahead of the curve with tools that simplify SEO, help improve visibility, and adapt to the AI search landscape.
Your ad platforms may be reaching fewer customers than you think
As identity signals decline, match rate has become a critical metric for improving audience reach, advertising efficiency, and ROAS.
Web Push advertising in 2026: Market trends and challenges
A look at how Web Push advertising is adapting in 2026 through better compliance, stronger traffic quality, and more mature market growth.
Link building for legitimacy: Building brand credibility in a competitive search environment
Don’t get distracted by flashy metrics like search volume. Instead, focus on the metrics that matter: legitimacy, credibility, and authority.
Human vs. machine: What happens when groas runs your Google Ads
One version of this story is AI replacing your entire PPC team. The truer one: Humans direct, the machines execute, and then the numbers move.
The future of performance marketing isn’t more vendors. It’s making your stack work harder.
As performance pressures mount, the future of marketing success lies in transforming your data foundation into a strategic AI-powered engine for growth.
AI search is driving customers. Can you measure it?
AI search is becoming a measurable source of customer discovery. Here's what nearly 30 million calls reveal and what marketers should do next.
How to find who’s using your brand in paid search
A step-by-step guide for spotting competitors, affiliates and misleading advertisers in your branded search queries.
How to win the gatekeeper’s ‘Yes’ with stakeholder co-citation gap analysis
To get cited in AI answers, stop writing for keywords. Map buyer-role evidence gaps, find the missing gatekeeper, and build the evidence.
What ChatGPT Ads data reveals about your competitors
We've analyzed nearly 1 million queries to show you what's really happening. Most search teams are missing it completely.
McKinsey frames AI 2.0; Positionless Marketing delivers it
AI 1.0 saved time. AI 2.0 makes money. The marketers who win will be Positionless.
5 early signs of PPC performance drops: Track competitors to spot them
Discover the five competitor signals that tend to appear before performance drops — and what actions to take when you spot them.
Your campaigns span 12 channels. Why does it feel like 12 jobs?
The cross-channel ad ops problem is real and mostly ignored. Here's what it's costing performance marketers — and what's actually changing.
Why some GTM teams move faster than yours.
New global research data reveals the tech gap quietly costing teams speed, revenue, and competitive ground.
AI search loves listicles: What 25,000 URLs reveal about citations
A review of 25,000 URLs yielded insights about the type of content most cited by ChatGPT and other popular large language models.
Marketing is entering its ‘air traffic control’ era
Adapting to customer journeys that increasingly resemble competing AI systems interpreting trust, risk, intent, and identity in real time.
Build a martech stack that makes it easy to manage your brand
Struggling with brand consistency? The solution isn't necessarily more tools. It's the right tools, assembled and aligned with intention.
AI skills: The next layer of marketing automation
Learn how to install, deploy, and brand AI skills to turn generic chatbots into your agency’s custom, scalable operating system.
The next era of link building is citation optimization
AI search can leave high-ranking brands out of buyer answers. Link builders need to optimize the sources that AI systems retrieve and cite.
Winning the next era of local visibility: How AI is changing local search
Learn how to optimize for AI-driven discovery across Google Search, Maps, and Gemini in this exclusive webinar with SOCi and Google.
AI SEO punishes lazy marketing strategies
AI-driven search draws on broader signals, exposing gaps in fragmented campaigns and favoring brands with a consistent, cross-channel presence.
Parked domain monetization 2026: Adapting to the changes
In 2025, Google began rolling out significant changes to its Search Partner Network, aimed at improving inventory quality.