Baidu added an AI Traffic Analysis dashboard in its webmaster tools that reports AI citations, impressions, clicks and a CTR metric. The data isn’t live yet, but the metric definitions and keyword reports provide important first-party AI visibility for SEOs in China.
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Stitch Fix posted 6.4% revenue growth to $1.3B in fiscal 2026 but said it no longer expects active-client growth in 2027, citing higher acquisition costs and a tougher consumer backdrop. The results highlight the trade-off between lifting revenue per client and growing customer counts.
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Best Buy has deployed internal LLM agents, launched Ask Blue as a conversational shopping assistant and integrated product discovery and checkout with ChatGPT. For marketers, that means conversational discovery is becoming a real commerce channel and models are being used to drive audience targeting.
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The first 90 days are the biggest risk window for agency client churn. Use a formal sales handover, 24-hour welcome, prioritised roadmap, weekly wins reports and 30/60/90 reviews to make early progress visible and improve retention.
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A Netskope report shows retailers reduced ungoverned AI use but rising agentic agents and embedded AI features are creating new data-visibility gaps that put regulated customer information at risk.
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JD Sports has broadened its use of Algolia to make its product catalog consumable by AI shopping agents, reporting double-digit improvements in search revenue and several engagement uplifts tied to dynamic re-ranking and a MACH-based architecture.
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A SmartCustomer survey of ~1,200 U.S. consumers finds 76% used AI to make purchases last year but 89% don’t fully trust recommendations; a third reported regrettable purchases. Marketers and retailers should prioritize provenance, transparency and customer protections.
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Google Search Console now reports web multimodal (image) search traffic — Lens, Circle to Search, image uploads and Chrome image search — so site owners can measure and export image-led discovery. Here’s what to check and do next.
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A randomized field experiment found Google’s AI Mode reduced clicks to external sites and worsened user perceptions of Search, raising pressing implications for publishers, marketers and measurement strategies.
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Before you build AI automation, spend 30 minutes to decide whether to buy a vendor tool, contract expertise, or run a focused in-house experiment. Map inputs, outputs and checks, automate one step at a time, and never deploy tools your team can’t verify.
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Dr. Squatch starts Cyber 5 planning in January to align inventory, creative and engineering, testing offers in Q2–Q3 and using AI delivery ETAs plus a two‑month code freeze to protect BFCM performance.
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Generative search demands three different optimizations: making content machine‑readable for citations, building the semantic associations that get brands recommended, and preparing product data so AI agents can select and transact. Each requires distinct skills and ownership.
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