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Google has started rolling out AI Performance Insights and Conversational Attributes in Merchant Center, the package it unveiled at Google Marketing Live on May 20 and detailed in the days after. The headline feature is a Share of Voice metric: for the first time, Google itself will tell a brand how visible it is inside … Read more
CNN sued Perplexity on May 28 in the Southern District of New York, alleging the AI search company copied more than 17,000 CNN articles, videos, and images to build its answer products. It is the first time a major broadcast-news brand has taken Perplexity to court, and the complaint reads as a direct challenge to … Read more
HubSpot opened the public beta of its rebuilt Smart CRM Index on May 27, the first ground-up redesign of the screen where reps manage Contacts, Companies, Deals, Tickets, and custom objects. Teams can opt in now from the Product Updates page, and per HubSpot’s resource center for the change, every portal that has not opted … Read more
Google extended its Preferred Sources feature into AI Overviews and AI Mode on May 27, the first time the personalization control has reached inside AI-generated answers instead of living only in the Top Stories carousel. In a post by Search product manager Duncan Osborn, Google said links from sites a reader has selected will now … Read more
5W Public Relations released The AI Company Comms Study 2026 on May 28, the first structured benchmark of how the 15 leading AI companies communicate implementation, adoption, and proof to enterprise buyers. Its quietest finding is the one B2B marketers should sit with: only about a third of those companies regularly disclose concrete user numbers, … Read more
Salesforce posted Q1 FY27 results after the bell on May 27, 2026, and the Agentforce number is the only one anyone is reading. Agentforce ARR crossed $1.2 billion, up 205% year-over-year, with combined Agentforce and Data 360 ARR reaching $3.4 billion and 3.8 billion Agentic Work Units delivered across the platform. Total revenue hit $11.13 … Read more
LinkedIn began rolling out device type and device OS targeting inside Campaign Manager on May 19, 2026, the first time in the platform’s advertising history that B2B advertisers can restrict ad delivery to Mobile, Desktop, or Tablet without relying on format-based workarounds. PPC Land confirmed the launch after practitioners Filip Saracevic and Alex Beddoe spotted … Read more
Google dropped 42 lead-generation launches at Google Marketing Live 2026 on May 20, with the consolidated launch document authored by Ginny Marvin (Ads Product Liaison) and published May 21. The headline framing from Google: most lead-quality problems are measurement, quality, and design problems rather than sales problems. The features collectively close the gap between high-intent … Read more
Publicis Groupe announced on May 17 it will acquire LiveRamp for $2.167 billion enterprise value in an all-cash deal, at $38.50 per share. The price represents a 29.8% premium to LiveRamp’s May 15 close and a total equity value of $2.546 billion. Close is expected before year-end 2026, subject to regulatory approval and a LiveRamp … Read more
Intuit announced on May 20 that it will cut approximately 3,000 jobs (17% of its global workforce) while explicitly naming Mailchimp as one of the businesses where investment is being “reduced.” In the same week, CEO Sasan Goodarzi told analysts on the Q3 FY26 earnings call that Intuit had tried to sell Mailchimp and couldn’t … Read more
Google began rolling out the May 2026 core update at 08:40 PT on May 21, 2026, logged on the Search Status Dashboard three minutes later under incident ID wdAXJk6LRRihEjpzEeWE. The rollout window is up to two weeks, with completion expected around June 4. Google’s framing was deliberately generic: “a regular update designed to better surface … Read more
Direct answer – What is Google’s Business Agent for Leads? Business Agent for Leads is a Google Ads format announced at Google Marketing Live 2026 on May 20 that replaces the static lead form inside a Search ad with a Gemini-powered chat agent grounded in the advertiser’s own website. Prospects ask questions, get site-based answers, … Read more