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Our Vision for Building an Open Ecosystem for the Agent Era

For years, HubSpot invested in making our platform the best place for marketing, sales, and service teams to do their work. With AI, we’ve been building it to do the work for them – through agents that qualify leads, resolve tickets, save deals, and drive outcomes across the business. That’s why we call HubSpot an agentic customer platform.

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Keyword clustering: How to create a strategy for topic authority in 2026

As a content writer with over 7 years of SEO experience, I can confidently say that keyword clustering is a critical technique—even in a world where the SEO landscape has changed significantly.

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Ask.com shuts down after over 25 years

The turn down web page says, “Jeeves’ spirit endures.”

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AEO prompt tracking for marketing teams

You already track and analyze your SEO strategy — keyword rankings, organic traffic, SERP positions. But when a prospect asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews a buying question and your brand doesn’t appear in the answer, traditional rank tracking can’t tell you that. AEO prompt tracking helps you measure brand visibility within AI-generated answers by monitoring whether (and how) your brand gets cited when real AI prompts are run across the engines your audience is actually using. For marketing leaders, SEO managers, and demand gen teams, it’s the measurement layer that closes the gap between “we publish great content” and “we can prove AI search drives pipeline.”

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Google Analytics introduces Task Assistant

GA’s new Task Assistant helps advertisers quickly improve setup and data quality with guided, actionable recommendations.

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Posted in Google Ads Marketing News PPC

Google Ads adds “Association” metric to Brand Lift Studies

In Google Ads automation, everything is a signal in 2026

Google Ads’ new Association metric shows how consumers link brands to key attributes, bridging awareness and consideration.

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Can a fake brand win in AI search? New experiment says yes

AI search visibility

A month-long test shows AI visibility follows repeatable signals — making it predictable, testable, and open to strategic influence.

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AEO Competitor Analysis: Track AI Answer Engine Rivals

Every company’s competitors are showing up in AI-generated answers, but do marketers know which ones, for which queries, and why? That’s exactly what AEO competitor analysis is designed to tell teams. Get Started with HubSpot's AEO Tool

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Share of Voice Tools for Growing Companies

When tracking share of voice for marketing teams, it’s often assumed to be a vanity metric — a number executives like to include in board decks but one that rarely influences strategy. In practice, that assumption doesn’t hold up.

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LinkedIn expands Event Ads beyond its own platform

LinkedIn Ads retargeting: How to reach prospects at every funnel stage

LinkedIn’s Off-Platform event ads, lets marketers promote external events in-feed and drive registrations to their own sites by May 6.

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