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NMS Editorial Team

NMS Editorial Team

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Estée Lauder Moved 150 Markets to One Agency. The Real Reason Is Retail Media.

Estée Lauder just handed WPP a global media account worth roughly £500 million (about AUD $987 million), according to B&T, consolidating media planning and buying for MAC, Clinique, La Mer, Jo Malone London, Bobbi Brown, Aveda, Origins, and the flagship label across an estimated 150 markets. The pitch

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The Semrush AI Content Study Is Only as Reliable as GPTZero (Which Isn't Great)

Semrush dropped a stat on April 1 that's already getting quoted everywhere: human-written content holds Google's #1 position about 80% of the time, while purely AI-generated content only shows up there 10% of the time. That works out to roughly 8x, and it reads like a

Adobe Lifted Firefly Citations 5x in a Week. Nobody Knows If It Sold Anything.

Adobe ran its own LLM Optimizer on its own pages last quarter and watched Firefly citations climb fivefold in seven days. Acrobat's LLM visibility jumped 200%. Adobe.com saw a 41% lift in LLM-referred traffic. These are real numbers from Adobe's own blog post, not vendor

Meta and YouTube Lost the Legal Theory That Made Their Ad Business Possible

A Los Angeles jury just spent two weeks doing something no other court has fully managed since Section 230 was written into law. They decided that infinite scroll, autoplay, and algorithmic recommendations are not speech. They are product features. And product features can be defective. That verdict, against Meta and

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The Fastest Way to Rank in ChatGPT Is to Rank in Bing (Yes, Bing)

If you've spent the last twelve months running GEO audits, buying visibility trackers, and trying to reverse-engineer what ChatGPT "prefers," I have slightly awkward news. The thing you were supposed to optimize was Bing. It has been Bing the whole time. Two separate studies published this

Dollar Shave Club Made the Pink Razor Aisle the Villain of Its Own Launch

Dollar Shave Club CEO Larry Bodner, explaining the company's first women's product line to Adweek this week, said the thing out loud: "I don't need the BS, just give me something that works, and this works. That's a little bit of