- OpenAI Reportedly Will Bring Shopify To ChatGPT
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Agentic commerce functions identified in lines of code added by OpenAI ...
- Yelp Shares Update To Its Lawsuit Against Google
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 23, 2025
A judge rejected Google's attempt to dismiss the case, finding Yelp plausib ...
- Product Content Citations Dominate AI Search - Where Do Others Fall In Line?
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Citations lacking in AI search results have become a major concern f ...
- Google Uses AI To Detect Fraud, Advances Multimodal Search
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 7, 2025
Google claims it has developed ways through artificial intelligence to fight onli ...
- Younger Consumers Are More Likely To Trust Influencer Recommendations
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Monday, February 24, 2025
Professional reviewers such as Consumer Reports remain a trusted source of produ ...
- Critical Shifts In Consumer Behavior Changing Paid Media Buys
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Data released Tuesday suggests editorial sites are often overlooked and undervalued ...
- Google Commits To Cracking Down On Fake Reviews
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 24, 2025
In the U.K., Google plans to put a warning on the websit ...
- Google Ties AI With Trust Scores To Identify, Validate False Information
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 17, 2025
Fake locations and illegal listings have become a problem for Google Busine ...
- FTC Finalizes Settlement With AI Company Rytr
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Rejecting arguments by the tech industry, the FTC has finalized a settleme ...
- 80% Of U.S. Consumers Are Either Negatively, Positively Influenced By Reviews
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Twenty-eight percent of U.S. consumers say they always look at online us ...
- Review Platform Sitejabber Inflated Clients' Ratings, FTC Alleges
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Sitejabber allegedly boosted its e-commerce clients' ratings by soliciting, and then postin ...
- More Americans Are Using Social Media To Find Their New Car: Report
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, October 2, 2024
A study finds 45% of Americans have expressed a willingness to purcha ...
- Upsides To Google Labeling Positive Fake Reviews On Maps
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 27, 2024
The company has decided to call out businesses that have posted positi ...
- AI Company Rytr Enabled Users To Create Fake Reviews, FTC Charges
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 25, 2024
The artificial intelligence company Rytr, which generates testimonials and other written materia ...
- Gannett Plans To Lay Off 74 Employees In Massachusetts
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Gannett announced the planned November layoffs in a WARN filing with t ...
- AI-Generated Fake Reviews Found Across App Stores
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 30, 2024
AI has been used to create fake reviews in app stores, accordi ...
- Yelp Sues Google Over Self-Preferencing Reviews
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Yelp filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Wednesday, alleging self-preferencing ...
- Union Blasts Gannett's Closure Of 'Reviewed'
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 27, 2024
NewsGuild says the workers have held the line against the unethical u ...
- Bad Reviewed: Gannett Closes Its Product Review Site
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 26, 2024
Business matters led to the closure of its review site "Reviewed," Ganne ...
- Yelp Speaks Out On FTC Fake Comment Ruling
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 15, 2024
Yelp, which relies heavily on ratings and comments, has become an outspok ...
- Cameo Settles Charges Over Paid Endorsements
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Cameo, valued at $1 billion in 2021, will pay $100,000 to sett ...
- Analyst Advocates NARB Self-Reg Model For Generative AI Advertising
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 27, 2024
Self-regulation seems to be a massive and highly complex endeavor. But o ...
- Proposal To Outlaw Fake Reviews Too Vague, IAB Says
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 13, 2024
The FTC's proposal to stamp out fake reviews could lead online business ...
- Yelp Expands Use Of AI In Review Summaries, Adds Budgeting Tool
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 31, 2024
The company will roll out AI review summaries that highlight a location ...
- 'Search Generative Experience' Forecast To Fuel $40B Annually For Google
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 18, 2024
BrightEdge data shows the impact of Google's Search Generative Experience supported ...
- Google Has A Deep Spammy Side - Despite AI
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Researchers set out to answer the question of whether search results a ...
- The TV Blog's Best- And Worst-Reviewed Shows Of 2023
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, December 22, 2023
Choosing "Poker Face" as the "TV Blog" best-reviewed new show of 20 ...
- Amazon, Microsoft Struggle With AI Inaccuracies
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 19, 2023
With Amazon, the focus is on product reviews, while for Microsoft, it ...
- Agency Finds Review Abuse, LSA Reviewjacking On Google
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 7, 2023
Review stars disappeared overnight from search results for many businesses in 201 ...
- Mozilla's Future In Chatbots, Large Language Models
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, November 17, 2023
Saoud Khalifah is building Mozilla review products for Amazon, Best Buy, eB ...