Traffic Down, Revenue Up: What Mattered This Week
Organic traffic is falling while revenue holds, AI-visibility tools are multiplying, and agencies are consolidating. One shift connects all three.
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Organic traffic is falling while revenue holds, AI-visibility tools are multiplying, and agencies are consolidating. One shift connects all three.
How the 70-20-10 budget split works, what the experimental 10% actually buys in rupees, and four alternatives that fit better when it doesn't.
AI Overviews expand on the fly, agents get a way to act inside websites, and bad data gets exposed. Four threads, one shift, and what to do about it.
Longer AI search queries, generated interfaces, distrusted budget data and creator fit over follower count — four threads, one underlying shift.
Attribution steers daily decisions, MMM sets budgets, incrementality proves causation. A plain-language decision framework, with a comparison table.
A plain-language guide to media mix modeling: what MMM measures, how the regression works, worked numbers in INR, and how it differs from attribution.
ChatGPT ads matured, Nielsen moved on DoubleVerify, and trust became a gating factor. Four threads from this week, and what each one changes for your plan.
Chatbot ads, product feeds and AI crawler controls all pointed the same way this week: AI is now a channel you buy and rank in, not just a tool you use.