NMS Editorial Team

NMS Editorial Team

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The AI Ad Market Split Three Ways and Nobody Agrees What a Conversion Is

By Notice Me Senpai Editorial There is a version of this article that treats "AI chatbot advertising" as one coherent thing. That version would be useless. Three months into the chatbot ad era, the three platforms that matter have picked three entirely different business models, and the gap

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AI Overviews Cut Clicks by 58%. The Damage Isn't Spread Evenly.

The first major Ahrefs study in April 2025 put the AI Overviews click loss at 34.5%. The December update pushed it to 58%. If you run SEO for a health publisher or a B2B SaaS blog, that number probably matches what you've been watching in Search Console

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Google's March Core Update Handed the NYT and Guardian Another Win

Google finished rolling out its March 2026 core update on April 8. Twelve days, four hours, and the results look almost identical to the last three core updates. The New York Times gained the most visibility in the US. The Guardian gained the most in the UK. And smaller publishers

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AI Labels Cut Ad Clicks by 31% and No Two Platforms Agree What Counts

Nobody in advertising wants to talk about this directly, but telling consumers an ad was made with AI makes that ad perform significantly worse. And the rules about when you have to tell them are arriving faster than most teams realize, from at least three different directions, with almost no

Nike Optimized Converse Into a 15-Year Revenue Low

Converse just posted $264 million in quarterly revenue. That's a 35% drop year over year, the steepest decline in 15 years, and the third consecutive quarter of accelerating losses. The trajectory: down 27%, then 30%, then 35%. The coverage has mostly framed this as "heritage brand struggles

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Pfizer Moved AI Search In-House in 60 Days (the SEO Industry Should Worry)

Pfizer didn't issue a press release about this. There wasn't a keynote or a blog post announcing the strategy shift. The company quietly moved its entire SEO and AI discoverability operation in-house over the course of 60 days, according to Digiday. And that timeline tells you

OpenAI's $60 CPM Ads Manager Doesn't Need to Be Good Yet

OpenAI quietly launched a self-serve ads manager this week, and the product is, if I am being generous, rudimentary. The platform offers real-time performance monitoring, the ability to optimize against impressions or clicks, and weekly CSV reports sent by email. There is no real-time bidding, no granular audience targeting, and