Daily Minute Master Series
July 3, 2026

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

LinkedIn rolls out new AI-powered promotional tools

LinkedIn announced new artificial intelligence-powered creative options for its in-app promotions, including copy generation tools, ad personalization options and ad variants.

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Google Ends Cache-Served AMP Pages In Search

Google Search has changed how it handles AMP pages. As of July 1, clicking an AMP result will take you to the domain’s AMP host page instead of a version served from Google’s AMP cache. In a changelog, Google notes that it removed mentions of the AMP viewer, AMP Cache, and signed exchanges from its AMP documentation.

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Cloudflare’s AI Crawler Rules Can Block Googlebot

Cloudflare is updating its method of identifying and blocking AI crawlers, which may result in Googlebot being blocked on sites that prevent AI training. The company announced the update as part of its second Content Independence Day.

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Your Younger Audience Is Declining Faster Than It Looks

Younger-audience share at publishers in the UK has declined, but slowly. In real terms, that audience is collapsing. The gap between those two numbers is worth a short article.

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Majority of US adults support social media bans

Amid ongoing discussion around teenage social media bans and measures to protect young users online, Pew Research conducted a survey of more than 9,000 U.S. adults to get their perspectives on potential restrictions, and gauge support for implementation.

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Microsoft Just Proved A Point About Search Today

The company that owns a major web index just documented, in its own product, that ranking a page and citing a passage are different jobs. Web IQ arriving at Build on June 2, and AI citation data showing up inside Bing Webmaster Tools earlier this year, were not surprises. As I know well, having built the modern version of Webmaster Tools, the reporting was always going to follow the answer once answers were being generated rather than ranked, and a tool that only ever described the blue links was always going to be lonely. The open question was never whether the citation signal would surface. It was what a platform’s own reporting would, and would not, be able to show you once it did.

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