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  • Google’s AI Overviews Now Show Source Carousels

    The April 2026 Search update changes how AI Overviews credit sources. Instead of small inline links, Google now displays a horizontally-scrolling carousel of cited sites directly beneath the AI answer — with logo, headline and CTR-tracked clicks.

    Early data from Search Console shows cited domains seeing a 14–22% click-through lift on AI-Overview-eligible queries. Editorial domains and category-leader sites benefit the most.

    Operator take: Audit your top 30 commercial queries for AI Overview presence. If your domain is cited, double down on schema, author bios, and review/case-study content. If it isn’t — that’s now a serious traffic gap and a content-strategy priority.

    Source — Google Search blog

  • Anthropic’s Claude Lands a Marketing-Skills Pack

    Anthropic’s new Skills feature lets businesses give Claude reusable, file-grounded capabilities — and the Marketing pack ships with seven out-of-the-box skills: ad-account audits, creative briefs, landing-page critiques, SEO content audits, and three different brand-voice templates.

    Skills run automatically based on the conversation context, meaning a team member can ask “audit this campaign” and Claude pulls the right framework without prompting.

    Operator take: Most agencies will roll their own. Save the time. Test the default Marketing pack first, then layer your house frameworks on top. The competitive advantage isn’t the tool — it’s the institutional taste you embed in the brief.

    Source — Anthropic news

  • AI Overviews Now Live in 18 New Markets

    Google has expanded AI Overviews to 18 additional markets including Brazil, Indonesia and Turkey — pushing organic listings further down the page on commercial queries.

    Operator take: Audit your top-of-funnel queries. Where AI Overviews answers them, lean into Brand SERP and rich-result coverage. Educational content is most exposed.

    Source — Search Engine Land

  • PMax Now Surfaces Asset-Level Performance Data

    Google has begun rolling out asset-level performance grouping in Performance Max — finally giving advertisers visibility into which creatives are doing the work inside the model.

    Operator take: Pull asset-level data weekly. Pause Low assets only after 14 days. The model still needs creative diversity to learn — don’t over-prune.

    Source — Google Ads release notes