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Search   -   Dec 28, 2025 Google deploys Gemini 3 in search with model-designed interfaces
Google Search leaders discuss Gemini 3 generative UI integration in December 2025 podcast episode

Google integrates Gemini 3 frontier model into search on December 18, 2025, enabling dynamic interface generation and real-time simulations for complex queries across millions of users.

by Luis Rijo
AI   -   Dec 28, 2025 AI takes first steps onto television home screens for nonprofit advertising
AI takes first steps onto television home screens for nonprofit advertising

Magnite deploys first AI-generated home screen ads on LG and TCL, lowering creative barriers for nonprofits entering streaming TV advertising markets.

by Luis Rijo
AI   -   Dec 28, 2025 Google Discover feeds users AI and YouTube while publishers watch traffic vanish
AI Summaries consume publisher traffic as YouTube and Google platforms dominate Discover feed landscape

Data from Marfeel reveals Google Discover transformed into an AI platform, with 51% of feed positions now occupied by AI Summaries in test markets, while YouTube absorbs the majority of default exits.

by Luis Rijo
AI   -   Dec 28, 2025 One-third of YouTube Shorts feed now consists of AI-generated slop
Cat devouring YouTube logo illustrating 33% AI slop saturation in platform's content feed algorithm

New research reveals 33% of YouTube Shorts shown to new users are brainrot content, while 21% are AI-generated slop, as machine-made videos flood the platform.

by Luis Rijo
AI   -   Dec 28, 2025 Microsoft Clarity reveals how AI assistants are reshaping website traffic patterns
Microsoft Clarity reveals how AI assistants are reshaping website traffic patterns

Microsoft Clarity's December 18 analysis shows AI referrals grew 155% in eight months while converting 11 times better than search despite under 1% traffic share.

by Luis Rijo
AI   -   Dec 28, 2025 Why greed, not technology, blocks programmatic advertising reform
Greedy dinosaur hoarding money symbolizes programmatic ad tech opacity blocking transparency reforms.

Advertising veterans warn new AI protocol ignores fraud risks while major platforms resist adoption that threatens vendor lock-in profits.

by Luis Rijo
AI   -   Dec 28, 2025 Google December update wrecks traffic as ChatGPT explores ads
Cartoon Google G logo greedily hoarding web traffic while sad website icons reach out desperately.

Google's third core update of 2025 devastated Discover traffic for news publishers during peak holiday season, while OpenAI signals advertising ambitions and major ad tech consolidation reshapes the competitive landscape.

by Luis Rijo
AI   -   Dec 28, 2025 Why advertising experts say new AI protocol won't fix programmatic's biggest problem
Ad fraud threatens AdCP protocol as bots consume advertising budgets without verification.

Industry veterans warn Ad Context Protocol ignores fraud risks that plagued similar standards while major platforms lack incentive to adopt it.

by Luis Rijo
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