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ROI Revolution

AI-Powered Shopping: How to Leverage Google’s New Conversational Attributes & AI Insights

Google’s new Conversational Attributes and AI Performance Insights signal a shift from keyword-based product feeds to context-driven product discovery in AI-powered shopping.

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Google's new Merchant Center attributes (Q&A, related products, popularity rank) are a concrete example of what "AI-readable product data" actually means in practice, not just a buzzword. Brands should treat populating these fields as seriously as they once treated basic product feed hygiene for Shopping ads.

Search Engine Land

AI search adoption rises as consumer trust declines: Study

Survey data from 1,008 consumers and 150 marketers reveals how AI is reshaping search visibility, brand trust, GEO, and content strategy.

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The 28-point drop in AI-search satisfaction in one year, alongside 39% of consumers saying heavy AI use reduces their brand trust, is the clearest sign yet that "be visible in AI" and "be trusted by AI users" are two different jobs.

OpenAI

OpenAI's Advertiser API Signals ChatGPT Ads are Moving Beyond Experimentation

The platform updated its official developer documentation to support programmatic ad delivery infrastructure, explicitly detailing an Advertiser API, Javascript conversion pixel setup, server-side Conversions API (CAPI), and product catalog feed ingestion via SFTP.

Parsnipp commentary

A full advertiser API for programmatic campaign management, product feeds, and conversion tracking inside ChatGPT. Worth a look to look at how Smart LLM Ads' integrations compare to what OpenAI now exposes natively.

GNW Consulting

The State of GEO in B2B Marketing

Artificial intelligence is introducing a structural shift in how B2B buyers discover, evaluate, and select solutions. Rather than relying exclusively on traditional search results, buyers are increasingly engaging with AI-generated answers that synthesize information from a wide range of sources.

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How 'it's just SEO' took over the GEO conversation

The GEO debate has become a distraction from a larger shift in how AI systems surface brands, sources, and recommendations. Search has managed to do something impressive. At the precise moment it should be becoming more important and valuable to clients, large parts of the industry have chosen to argue themselves into irrelevance.

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The Atlantic

Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized

Modern search results are getting aggressively ‘sloptimized,’ meaning platforms are altering content delivery layouts and sourcing behaviors in ways that target AI chatbots rather than human readers.

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The Best SEO Podcast

[Podcast] How LLM Search Changes SEO and E-Commerce

In this episode, The Best SEO Podcast host Matthew Bertram sits down with Andrew Higgins to talk through what AI Visibility really means and why marketers are racing ahead of the data, even as consumer behavior shifts towards AI search and AI assistants.

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Hey Savi and PayPal Launch UK's First Agentic Commerce Platform with In-App Checkout

PayPal officially partnered with fashion discovery app Hey Savi to debut the UK’s first “agentic commerce” platform featuring native, in-app checkout, pulling retail giant Debenhams Group (parent company of boohoo and Karen Millen) into the ecosystem as its first major adopter. The platform acts as an AI-powered shopping agent that ranks products entirely by context...

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2X Innovation Lab

2X AI Innovation Lab: New AI Visibility Index Finds 96% of B2B Companies Are Invisible in AI Discovery

New benchmark reveals most brands appear only after buyers already know them, signaling a fundamental shift in the B2B discovery funnel

Parsnipp commentary

A massive 96% of B2B brands do not appear anywhere in AI search results. Even worse, for the 4% that do show up, only 30% manage to stay visible from answer to answer, and only 20% remain visible across five consecutive runs. The traditional SEO moat is gone in AI search. Because LLMs are highly dynamic and lack consistency across sessions, a brand can be the "top answer" one minute and completely wiped out the next. Continuous visibility tracking is no longer optional.

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