Wavering confidence in inventory

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Keep on reading: Digital video ad spending is booming – trust in premium inventory isn’t.]]> Wed, Jul 15, 2026 https://digiday.com/marketing/digital-video-ad-spending-is-booming-trust-in-premium-inventory-isnt/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/future-of-tv-briefing-the-ma-match-game-summer-2026-edition/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the M&A deals that could should be in the offing after an active first half of 2026.

• Match game
• Paramount-WBD’s opposition, Netflix’s live TV play, Disney+’s free tier plans and more

Match game

Remember the merger-mania period of the late 2010s? Disney-20th Century Fox. Discovery-Scripps. AT&T-Time Warner. V...

Keep on reading: Future of TV Briefing: The M&A match game (summer 2026 edition)]]> Wed, Jul 15, 2026 https://digiday.com/future-of-tv/future-of-tv-briefing-the-ma-match-game-summer-2026-edition/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss https://socialmediaexplorer.com/business/what-affects-the-compensation-you-can-recover-for-an-injury-in-san-francisco/ Your medical bills from a three-day hospital stay at UCSF can top $60,000. The ambulance ride alone averages over $2,500 in this city. San Francisco is expensive in ways that directly affect what your injury claim is worth, and most people don’t realize that until they’re already in the middle of it.

Keep on reading: What Affects the Compensation You Can Recover for an Injury in San Francisco]]> Tue, Jul 14, 2026 https://socialmediaexplorer.com/business/what-affects-the-compensation-you-can-recover-for-an-injury-in-san-francisco/ https://socialmediaexplorer.com/content-sections/steamer-lane-santa-cruzs-cold-water-classic/ Perched below a lighthouse and easily viewed from a cliffside walkway, Steamer Lane is Santa Cruz’s signature wave, a powerful right-hand point break that has anchored this Northern California surf town’s identity for generations of cold-water surfers.

Unlike many California breaks that require a boat, a long walk, or specific local knowledge to even locate, Steamer Lane is remarkably visible and accessible, with a de...

Keep on reading: Steamer Lane: Santa Cruz’s Cold-Water Classic]]> Tue, Jul 14, 2026 https://socialmediaexplorer.com/content-sections/steamer-lane-santa-cruzs-cold-water-classic/ https://digiday.com/media/inside-the-newsroom-push-to-turn-print-reporters-into-video-talent/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss Publishers have largely accepted that reaching new audiences increasingly means making more video. Now comes the harder part: re-engineering newsrooms so reporters and editors behave less like byline-only journalists and more like on-camera video correspondents and creators.

That shift is prompting a wave of experimentation in how publishers train and support their staff. Some are building formal “talent labs” with structured coaching and workflows. Others are taking a looser ap...

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If Ally Bank CMO Andrea Brimmer had to rebuild her sports marketing playbook, she’d change two things: lock in l...

Keep on reading: What Ally Bank learned from building a sports marketing strategy before the market caught up]]> Tue, Jul 14, 2026 https://digiday.com/podcasts/what-ally-bank-learned-from-building-a-sports-marketing-strategy-before-the-market-caught-up/?utm_campaign=digidaydis&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=general-rss https://socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketing/the-value-of-continuous-it-infrastructure-monitoring-for-nj-businesses/ New Jersey businesses run on technology, whether it’s a law firm in Newark managing sensitive client files or a manufacturing company in Trenton coordinating supply chains. Yet many organizations still treat IT monitoring as an afterthought, only checking in on their systems after something breaks. This reactive approach leaves companies vulnerable to costly downtime, security breaches, and lost productivity. Continuous IT infrastructure monitoring offers a...

Keep on reading: The Value of Continuous IT Infrastructure Monitoring for NJ Businesses]]> Mon, Jul 13, 2026 https://socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketing/the-value-of-continuous-it-infrastructure-monitoring-for-nj-businesses/ https://socialmediaexplorer.com/business-innovation-2/why-peptide-sellers-need-a-high-risk-merchant-account-from-day-one/ Peptide and research chemical sellers occupy a category that mainstream payment processors classify as high-risk almost universally, regardless of how clean a specific business’s operations actually are, simply because the broader product category carries regulatory ambiguity and elevated chargeback history across the industry as a whole.

New sellers entering this space frequently make the mistake of applying for a standard...

Keep on reading: Why Peptide Sellers Need a High-Risk Merchant Account From Day One]]> Sat, Jul 11, 2026 https://socialmediaexplorer.com/business-innovation-2/why-peptide-sellers-need-a-high-risk-merchant-account-from-day-one/ https://www.toprankmarketing.com/blog/blogging-ai-search/ One of the most common questions we get from clients these days: Are blogs still a worthwhile channel to invest in?

It’s fair to wonder. AI has changed the discovery landscape and in some ways, content feels more commoditized than ever. Where does that leave the role of blogs as de facto content factories?

I’ll admit, I’m somewhat biased on the subject. I’m what you might call a blogging OG. I started a baseball blog more than 20 years ago, back when the ...

Keep on reading: Is Blogging Still Relevant for AI Search Visibility? What the Research Says]]> Mon, Jun 29, 2026 https://www.toprankmarketing.com/blog/blogging-ai-search/ https://www.toprankmarketing.com/blog/expert-seo-tips/ Updated 06/17/26

The standards of online search and SEO, as we once knew them, have changed forever.

Google’s recent search engine overhaul at I/O 2026 made it official: the era of the “ten blue links” is giving way to AI-powered interactive experiences, information agents and generative interfaces that build custom pages on the fly in response to a user’s query.