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What does it mean to use AI well in marketing?

17 June 2026

Marketing is obsessed with AI, but consumers are pushing back against the 'slop.' To use AI successfully, brands must realise that algorithmic visibility matters little if the resulting content destroys consumer trust.
The Pinterest guide to trendspotting

17 June 2026

Pinterest, which already uses AI to help identify trends, is leaning further into the technology with a new experimental app, Ask Pinterest, that will allow users to explore more conversational, visual-first and agentic shopping experiences.  Learnings from Ask Pinterest will help inform future AI-powered experiences across the main app; how users respond will in turn feed into the machine learning that helps its insights team cluster signals from multiple data points and identify emerging trends.
UK social media ban is big on headlines, short on detail

17 June 2026

The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has been announced and while the marketing industry dissects what this might mean for media plans and budgets, the bulk of the policy still has many gaps that aren’t yet fully fleshed out.
Why GEO is bigger than the next phase of SEO

17 June 2026

Generative engine optimisation should not be viewed simply as “SEO 2.0”, but as a fundamentally different approach to discoverability in AI-mediated environments, reshaping how consumers discover and evaluate brands.
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