AI middlemen are taking control of how people shop and use apps.

1. Adoption · ExtendsRetailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data (Arriana McLymore/Reuters)Reuters
   Aug 9
2. Money · ExtendsReddit Wants To Be The Destination, Not Just The Source Behind Search & AI via @sejournal, @brentcsutorasSearchenginejournal
   Aug 6
3. Attention · ExtendsAI Referrals Are Recreating The Oldest Mistake In Conversion Optimization via @sejournal, @slobodanmanicSearchenginejournal
   Aug 6
4. Pushback · ExtendsRules Of The Road: What Flock’s 71% Misread Rate Teaches Us About Third-Party AI RiskForrester
   Aug 6
5. Pushback · ExtendsAI Agents Can’t Read Your Pricing. That’s Becoming A Revenue Problem.Forrester
   Aug 6
6. Pushback · ConfirmsA Machine Rejects Your Resume Before Anyone Reads ItSubstack
   Aug 5
7. Pushback · ConfirmsReport That Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking Prevents Googlebot From Indexing Sites via @sejournal, @martinibusterSearchenginejournal
   Aug 5
8. Pushback · ConfirmsCan Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?The Verge
   Aug 5

1. Pushback · ExtendsChatGPT Already Knows Who It’ll Recommend Before It Searches via @sejournal, @suganthanSearchenginejournal
   Aug 15
2. Pushback · ExtendsAmazon Is Spiting Customers With Unhelpful Order Confirmation EmailsThe Verge
   Aug 13
3. Adoption · ExtendsDoorDash sprints towards replacing its drivers with robotsBoingboing
   Aug 12
4. Pushback · ExtendsFewer Than 1% of Product Pages Are LLM-Ready: Mirakl’s MeadonBeet
   Aug 11
5. Money · ConfirmsHow credit card issuers and reservation apps like OpenTable and Amex-owned Resy fragment restaurant reservations, wiring the best tables into premium card perks (Wall Street Journal)The Wall Street Journal
   Aug 10

1. Adoption · ExtendsApparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns (Sonja Wind/Bloomberg)Bloomberg
   Aug 23
2. Adoption · ExtendsGoogle’s Generated Interfaces Could Compete With Tool Pages via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Aug 22
3. Pushback · ConfirmsAI Assistants Are Choosing Local Businesses For Your Customers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Aug 18
4. Attention · ExtendsBrands Must Prepare for Era of Post-Google Discovery: Future’s Mike PeraltaBeet
   Aug 18

1. Attention · ExtendsGoogle further buries search results under AI modeThe Verge
   Aug 29
2. Attention · ExtendsAI Search Didn’t Remove Cognitive Load, It Moved It via @sejournal, @DuaneForresterSearchenginejournal
   Aug 28
3. Pushback · ExtendsAI Tools Recommend Brands But Cite Other Sites, Data Shows via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Aug 27
4. Attention · ExtendsChatGPT Rebuilt Its Search Tool, I Read The New Language It Speaks via @sejournal, @suganthanSearchenginejournal
   Aug 26

1. Attention · ExtendsProduct Pages Get 24% Of AI Citations, Reddit & YouTube 4% via @sejournal, @gregjarboeSearchenginejournal
   Sep 4
2. Adoption · ExtendsGoogle’s New Weather AI In Search Continues Shift Away From 10 Blue Links via @sejournal, @martinibusterSearchenginejournal
   Sep 4
3. Pushback · ConfirmsGoogle AI Mode Prices Differ From Product Carousel For Same Items via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Sep 3
4. Pushback · ExtendsUber is aligning with drivers' unions in a bid to slow the rollout of robotaxis across the US, as it faces a technological disruption to its core business (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)Financial Times
   Sep 3
5. Pushback · ExtendsFlywheel’s Amie Owen: Crowded Retail Media Space Creates Costs Most Brands Don’t NoticeBeet
   Sep 2
6. Adoption · ExtendsM33H: Local ad impressions up 35%, local business sign-ups down 8%. What do you do?Substack
   Sep 1
7. Adoption · ExtendsWeekly Roundup: Former Lyft Drivers Get Jobs Cleaning the Robotaxis That Replaced ThemTherideshareguy
   Aug 31
8. Attention · ExtendsAI Is Breaking Advertising’s Favorite Hobby of Putting People in Boxes: GumGum’s Laura FosterBeet
   Aug 31
9. Attention · ExtendsChatbot Conversations Are Capturing Consumer Intent Before Brands Even Know ItBeet
   Aug 31

1. Pushback · ExtendsWhat Wikipedia Reveals About AI Overviews And Web Traffic via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Sep 12
2. Attention · ExtendsThe Agentic Commerce Conundrum // BRXND Dispatch vol. 137Substack
   Sep 10
3. Attention · ExtendsHow AI Is Reshaping Search Intent – What 2 Studies Reveal via @sejournal, @ClaraSoterasSearchenginejournal
   Sep 10
4. Pushback · Extends6 Months Into ChatGPT Ads, Advertisers Still Don’t Know What ‘Good’ Looks Like via @sejournal, @brookeosmundsonSearchenginejournal
   Sep 9
5. Pushback · ExtendsMeta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?TechCrunch
   Sep 9
6. Adoption · ExtendsAds Inside AI: The Next Media Channel Marketers Can’t IgnoreBeet
   Sep 8
7. Adoption · ExtendsIs Uber & Lyft’s AI Making Better Decisions Than Drivers?Therideshareguy
   Sep 8
8. Adoption · ExtendsHow everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)The Wall Street Journal
   Sep 7

1. Adoption · ExtendsMeta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 (Georgia Hennessy/Business Insider)Business Insider
   Sep 19
2. Pushback · ExtendsReddit AI Search Picks Already-Popular Comments, Audit Finds via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Sep 18
3. Pushback · ExtendsCan agents buy from your product? Three questions that tell you. Plus: Nate's Library MCP.Substack
   Sep 17
4. Pushback · ExtendsThe Battle for the Booking Layer: How Lodging Leaders Are Building Moats Against AI DisintermediationSubstack
   Sep 17
5. Pushback · ExtendsAI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide404 Media
   Sep 16
6. Pushback · ExtendsThere’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet404 Media
   Sep 15

1. Pushback · ExtendsGoogle AI Overviews Have More Links, But Not All Reach The Web via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Sep 26
2. Attention · ExtendsPerformance Marketing Is Dead — Here’s WhyForrester
   Sep 26
3. Adoption · ConfirmsChatGPT now sends 95.1% of AI referral traffic to websites, BrightEdge saysThenextweb
   Sep 25
4. Adoption · ConfirmsThe AI commerce era: 7 e-commerce leaders on what’s still brokenThenextweb
   Sep 25
5. Pushback · ExtendsAI Agents Will Game Your SEO Metrics, MIT & Stanford Research Points To The Risk via @sejournal, @gregjarboeSearchenginejournal
   Sep 24
6. Adoption · ExtendsGoogle Search Decline Steepened To 40% YoY For Publishers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Sep 24
7. Adoption · ExtendsMeta’s New Muse AI Agent App Overtakes ChatGPT as Top iPhone App9to5Mac
   Sep 23
8. Attention · ExtendsTrust Becomes Advertising’s Most Valuable Currency in AI EraBeet
   Sep 23
9. Pushback · ConfirmsResearch Shows Google AI Mode Sends Less Clicks & Is A Poor User Experience via @sejournal, @martinibusterSearchenginejournal
   Sep 22
10. Pushback · ExtendsRetail Media Confronts Its Grading-Your-Own-Homework ProblemBeet
    Sep 21

1. Attention · Extends#210: MiddlemenSubstack
   Oct 3
2. Pushback · ExtendsMeta, Amazon, And The Real Question About Agentic CommerceForrester
   Oct 3
3. Pushback · ExtendsChallengers Approach: Third Party App Stores Arrive to Google Play Eff
   Oct 2
4. Pushback · ExtendsOpenAI’s measurement gaps are keeping ChatGPT ads budgets at test levelDigiday
   Oct 2
5. Pushback · ExtendsGoogle AI Pilot Pays Some Sites Under 0.1% Of Ad Revenue via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Oct 1
6. Pushback · ExtendsMNTN’s Matt Collins: Zero-Click AI Searches are Forcing Performance Marketers to Rethink EverythingBeet
   Sep 30
7. Pushback · ExtendsWho Gets Paid When AI Does the Shopping?Substack
   Sep 29
8. Attention · ExtendsAI Killed My Blog TrafficClintmcmahon
   Sep 29
9. Attention · ExtendsEMARKETER’s Blake Droesch: AI is Showing Consumers Fewer Products. Brands Need to Understand WhyBeet
   Sep 28
10. Pushback · ExtendsQ&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on bot traffic potentially reaching 1000x human traffic, reviving HTTP 402 to charge bots, blocking Google, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)The Verge
    Sep 28

1. Adoption · ExtendsAI Overviews Have Spread To Most Big-Brand Searches via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Oct 10
2. Pushback · ExtendsMedia Briefing: As AI search shifts referrals, publishers revisit registration walls Digiday
   Oct 9
3. Pushback · ExtendsAgentic Commerce Exposes The Missing Dimension In Product DataForrester
   Oct 8
4. Pushback · ConfirmsUnofficial Command-Line Tool Removes Apple Intelligence From MacOS 27Ars Technica
   Oct 7
5. Pushback · ExtendsReddit to Remove RSSMjtsai
   Oct 7
6. Pushback · ConfirmsTurns out, managing bots is just as annoying as managing peopleBusiness Insider
   Oct 7
7. Adoption · ExtendsWill agents have network effects?Substack
   Oct 6
8. Pushback · ExtendsWikimedia Foundation: OpenAI agents tried to edit pages and compromise notes toolThe Record
   Oct 6
9. Pushback · ExtendsIAB’s Gabilan: Agentic AI will Expose ‘Old Cracks’ in Ad MeasurementBeet
   Oct 6

1. Adoption · ExtendsData: How AI Assistants Are Spending Real MoneyUpstartsmedia
   Oct 18
2. Pushback · ExtendsMeta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing feesArs Technica
   Oct 18
3. Money · ExtendsWeak Links Start to Show in A.I. BorrowingThe New York Times
   Oct 18
4. Attention · ConfirmsAI Travel Advice Is Less Personal Than It SeemsFinancial Times
   Oct 17
5. Attention · ExtendsSERPs Stop Being The Default Between 2028 & 2030 via @sejournal, @DuaneForresterSearchenginejournal
   Oct 17
6. Pushback · ExtendsFrom Substack to YouTube, here are the social platforms cracking down on AI slopBusiness Insider
   Oct 16
7. Pushback · ConfirmsYour Store Is ‘Agent-Ready’ By Default, We Tested 122 Shopify Stores To See What That Actually Means via @sejournal, @billhuntSearchenginejournal
   Oct 16
8. Pushback · ConfirmsInside Wirecutter’s push to diversify beyond affiliate revenue as AI reshapes discoveryDigiday
   Oct 15
9. Pushback · ExtendsAnalysis: Google Is Poisoning Search Results For Rank Trackers via @sejournal, @martinibusterSearchenginejournal
   Oct 14
10. Attention · ConfirmsAI reputation management: what gets said about you inside ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google GeminiThenextweb
    Oct 14
11. Pushback · ConfirmsHome Office asylum AI flunks one in five accuracy checksThe Register
    Oct 13
12. Adoption · ConfirmsA look at Uber's retreat in Africa, quitting Nigeria and Uganda abruptly after Tanzania and Ivory Coast, as price-sensitive riders pick Bolt, inDrive, and Yango (Bloomberg)Bloomberg
    Oct 13

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1. Pushback · ExtendsSpotify ramps up policy enforcement on family plansArs Technica
   Oct 25
2. Pushback · ExtendsGetting Indexed No Longer Means Getting Visited via @sejournal, @DuaneForresterSearchenginejournal
   Oct 24
3. Adoption · ExtendsSpotify says yes, it is busting people for using Family Plan sharing too widelyThe Verge
   Oct 23
4. Attention · ExtendsAI boosts discovery but reviews still seal the deal, new research showsDigiday
   Oct 23
5. Attention · ExtendsRoku Bets on Interoperability as CTV Moves From Reach to AccountabilityBeet
   Oct 23
6. Pushback · ConfirmsEtsy is cracking down on AI slop listingsThe Verge
   Oct 23
7. Attention · ConfirmsCreators say it’s difficult to make money from news — with platform rules and brand guidelinesDigiday
   Oct 23
8. Pushback · ExtendsHow Commerce.com and Cloudflare are getting storefronts ready for AI agentsCloudflare
   Oct 22
9. Pushback · ExtendsAirbnb Hosts Are Furious They Can No Longer Make Guests Do Their ChoresWired
   Oct 22
10. Pushback · ConfirmsMeet Prometheus, a Gift Link Search EngineKottke
    Oct 22
11. Attention · ExtendsSpeed Dating for AgentsSubstack
    Oct 21
12. Attention · ExtendsPredictions 2027: B2B Go-To-Market Teams Must Adapt As AI Shifts Control To BuyersForrester
    Oct 21

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1. Pushback · ExtendsReddit CEO Says Google’s AI Mode ‘Does Not Drive Traffic’ via @sejournal, @MattGSouthernSearchenginejournal
   Oct 31
2. Attention · ExtendsBig Brands Dominate AI Search But Leave Openings For Smaller Sites via @sejournal, @martinibusterSearchenginejournal
   Oct 31
3. Pushback · ExtendsAI Search Is Growing Faster Than Its Business ModelForrester
   Oct 31
4. Pushback · ExtendsOpenAI’s Agents Can Silently Block Your Site – & Your Logs Won’t Show It via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRWSearchenginejournal
   Oct 31
5. Attention · ExtendsGoogle Reveals How AI Search Is Reshaping What Users Query via @sejournal, @brookeosmundsonSearchenginejournal
   Oct 30
6. Pushback · ExtendsDon’t Block All The Bots — They Might Be Shopping For Your CustomersForrester
   Oct 29
7. Pushback · ExtendsBank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistantTechCrunch
   Oct 29
8. Adoption · ExtendsSupply-Side Targeting Now Captures 37% of Programmatic Spend as Buyers Flee DSP ConstraintsBeet
   Oct 28
9. Pushback · ExtendsGenerative UI Could Turn Google Into Your Booking.com via @sejournal, @slobodanmanicSearchenginejournal
   Oct 27
10. Pushback · ExtendsA food delivery app's AI turned a breakfast sandwich into bacon sodaBoingboing
    Oct 27
11. Pushback · ExtendsInstagram found a new way to avoid sharing revenue with creatorsSubstack
    Oct 27

1. Adoption · ExtendsGig workers are using AI to fight deactivations on apps like Uber and InstacartBusiness Insider
   Nov 8
2. Attention · ExtendsAs AI shapes more shopping decisions, retail marketers must rethink discovery, trust, and visibility November 5Emarketer
   Nov 8
3. Pushback · ExtendsYou’re going to hate shopping in an AI economyVox
   Nov 8
4. Pushback · ExtendsWho Wins When AI Does the Shopping? New Evidence on Agentic CommerceFodda
   Nov 7
5. Money · ExtendsRetail Drift: Who Owns the Customer When When AI Shops for ThemSubstack
   Nov 7
6. Attention · ExtendsShoppers OK with AI personalization of direct mail, but draw line at AI-made images of people November 6Emarketer
   Nov 7
7. Pushback · ExtendsAgents aren’t humans (but they kinda are)Cloudflare
   Nov 6
8. Attention · ExtendsYour Application Vendors Control The Meter, The Gate, And The RefereeForrester
   Nov 6
9. Attention · ExtendsThe end of feature discovery as we know it.Substack
   Nov 6
10. Pushback · ExtendsGoogle Summaries Aren't About AI, They're About Lock-In Eff
    Nov 6
11. Adoption · ExtendsDouble 11 Looming, Chinese Shoppers Ask Strangers to Vet Their CartsSixthtone
    Nov 5
12. Pushback · ExtendsNYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firmsArs Technica
    Nov 5

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