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Amanda Walls - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandajwalls/This episode explores the continued growth of ChatGPT and Gemini, the debate around watermarking AI-generated content, major changes to Google Ads bidding and the emerging future of AI-powered advertising.

We also discuss MySpace’s potential comeback, Grok’s move into AI agents, how brands can improve their visibility within ChatGPT, the changing agency pricing model, privacy concerns around everyday technology and why JavaScript could make large parts of your website invisible to AI crawlers.

Key Topics Covered

- ChatGPT and Gemini surpassing one billion monthly users

- How ChatGPT Work is changing everyday productivity and creative workflows

- Claude’s proposed invisible watermarking of AI-generated content

- The debate around labelling AI content on websites, YouTube and Spotify

- Google Ads changing how Target CPA and Target ROAS campaigns optimise

- MySpace’s potential comeback and whether social media can become fun again

- ChatGPT testing advertising that sends users directly into branded AI-agent conversations

- Grok, Chinese AI models and the growing competition in the AI market

- Jono Alderson’s advice on JavaScript, developers and technical SEO

- Why positive brand sentiment matters more than simply being mentioned in AI search

- Reddit, reviews and original research as trust signals for AI visibility

- The privacy risks of smart devices, voice assistants and everyday technology

- Whether 12-month SEO contracts still make sense in a rapidly changing market

- False Wikipedia information appearing in Google’s Knowledge Panel

- Time creating a Markdown version of its website specifically for AI crawlers

- New research showing that most AI bots do not execute JavaScript

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