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Daily Minute Master Series
April 20, 2026

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

Judge sides with plaintiffs in case against online ICE trackers

A judge has granted a preliminary injunction to a Facebook group, along with a dedicated app, which used publicly available information to highlight the activity of ICE agents in the U.S. The judge sided with plaintiffs, and said they are likely to succeed in their case, which alleges that the U.S. government suppressed protected speech under the First Amendment by pushing Facebook and Apple to remove ICE monitoring efforts.

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The latest xAI updates highlight major development push

Over the past week, xAI announced a range of product updates, including new speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs. It also increased some of its API charges and enabled collaborative work with OpenClaw. In addition, the platform is also looking to launch a new coding terminal within its API tools soon.

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68 Million AI Crawler Visits Show What Drives AI Search Visibility

A new analysis of 858,457 sites hosted on the Duda platform shows how AI crawlers are interacting with websites at scale. The data offers a clearer view of how crawling activity is growing and what SEOs and businesses should do to increase traffic from AI search.

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Winning Google Ads Campaign Structures For DTC Ecommerce

You’ve got a whole library of winning ads from Meta to run on Google, but you don’t want to spend a ton of time setting up campaigns or becoming a Google guru. So, you take your existing creatives and pop them into Performance Max, spin up some ad copy, and let Google do its thing.

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Google May Have To Share Search Data With Rivals

The European Commission has sent preliminary findings to Google proposing measures to share search data with rival search engines, including AI chatbots that qualify as online search engines under the DMA, across the EU and EEA.

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Google Lists Best Practices For Read More Deep Links

Google updated its snippet documentation today with a new section on “Read more” deep links in Search results. The section outlines three best practices for increasing the likelihood that a page appears with these deep links.

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