Daily Minute Master Series
August 27, 2025
by Corey Padveen
Marketing News and Updates
Google Updates AI Image Generation, Adds Loyalty Program Option for Retailers
Google has announced a new update to its Gemini AI image generation tools, which could help you produce better images for your promotions, while it’s also announced a new loyalty program option for retailer advertisers via Google listings.
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LinkedIn Expands BrandLink Ad Offering With New Programming
LinkedIn has announced an expansion of its BrandLink ad placement program, which enables brands to place their video ads alongside publisher and influencer content in the app, facilitating more reach, and potentially higher trust, based on effective placement.
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YouTube Expands Access to Hype, Adds New Creator Tools
YouTube has announced an expansion of its Hype program, which is designed to help boost emerging creators, while it’s also expanding access to its AI-generated video summaries, and launching new templates in its “YouTube Create” app.
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Google Wants To Show More Links In AI Mode
Google says it’s actively working to surface more source links inside AI Mode. Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, outlined changes designed to make links more visible. Stein wrote on X that Google has been testing where links appear inside AI answers and that the long-term “north star” is to show more inline links. He added that people are more likely to click when links are embedded with context directly in the response.
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What To Do When the Click Disappears: Surviving SEO In The AI-Driven SERP
You may have noticed your organic traffic looking different lately. Rankings fluctuate wildly, your content appears in AI summaries one week and vanishes the next, and users are increasingly getting their answers without ever visiting your website. When 58.5% of searches end without a click, that carefully optimized content you spent weeks perfecting might be feeding AI answers instead of driving traffic to your site. We’re witnessing the biggest shift in search since Google’s early days. Traditional SEO tactics aren’t enough anymore.
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Closing The Digital Performance Gap: Why The C-Suite Must Take Web Effectiveness Seriously
When the C-suite ignores web performance, business suffers. Why leadership must own SEO, UX, and strategy to unlock real growth.
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