AGP Executive Report
Last update: 12 hours agoAI & Search Shake-Up: NetPartners finds Google AI Overviews show up on 98% of software “brand review” searches, with review-search visibility down sharply year over year—forcing marketers to rethink how they earn citations. Retail Video Pressure: Cloudinary’s Global Retail Survey says festive-season teams face 13 competing priorities, doubling down on video, UGC and generative AI to keep up. Agentic Commerce in Payments: Pine Labs teams with Google Cloud to deploy Gemini-powered AI agents for merchant operations and ad creation across Google Search/YouTube and POS. Marcom Measurement for Events: George P. Johnson rolls out an Experience Intelligence System to turn event metrics into audience, sentiment and business-impact intelligence. Local Media Business Model: A new take on local TV argues it can’t rely on inherited audiences anymore—it must rebuild talent and audience development. Data Privacy Backlash: Consumer Reports spotlights what data brokers like Acxiom claim to know about people, fueling renewed scrutiny of personal-data markets. Brand/Legal: A US judge cuts Beyond Meat’s trademark penalty after a “plant-based” slogan dispute. Tourism Marketing: Lancaster unveils a 10-year tourism master plan, but key implementation details still need work.
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