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Daily Minute Master Series
July 17, 2026

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

X updates its engagement bait detection

X continues to refine its creator incentive program as it tries to improve the quality of content posted to the app. The company’s latest target is engagement baiters and users who repost other people’s content.

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Meta AI adds additional safety measures

Meta added new alerts for parents whose kids discuss sensitive topics with Meta AI. The update helps ensure that parents remain aware of potential concerns related to their kids’ artificial intelligence chatbot engagements.

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X adds Grok-powered insights to Ads Manager

X has launched beta testing of its new Grok integration in Ads Manager, which should offer more artificial intelligence-powered guidance for promotions.

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Google Starts Rolling Out Connected Apps In AI Mode Search

Google is starting to roll out connected apps in AI Mode, so you can send tasks to services like Canva from a search.

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Google Explains SEO Connection Of Site Quality To Non-Indexed Pages

Google’s Martin Splitt and John Mueller discussed the Page Indexing Report and how it could be used to identify indexing issues. Of interest is how they tied quality to indexing, saying that quality isn’t just about the text on a web page.

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Gemini 3.5 Pro Delayed Over Coding, Bloomberg Reports

Google said it expected Gemini 3.5 Pro to roll out by now. It hasn’t shipped, and Bloomberg reports coding is part of what’s holding it up.

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