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Your AI in Marketing News from The Latest Week 🤖 [April 5, 2026]

ChatGPT Enables Location Sharing for More Localized Near Me Results

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🤖 The Latest AI News You Can’t Miss

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ChatGPT Enables Location Sharing For More Localized Near Me Results
Barry Schwartz
OpenAI announced a new feature for ChatGPT named location sharing. This allows you to share your precise location with ChatGPT, so it can give you more localized and near-me results.

YouTube connects AI chatbot to smart TVs
Andrew Hutchinson
YouTube announced an expansion of its conversational AI tool to smart TVs. It allows viewers to ask about what they’re viewing and get in-stream responses. 

Google introduces Veo 3.1 Lite: a more cost-effective video generation model
Alisa Fortin, Guillaume Vernade
Google is introducing Veo 3.1 Lite, their “most cost-effective video model”. This model empowers developers to build high-volume video applications at less than 50% of the cost of Veo 3.1 Fast, but with the same speed. It is rolling out to the users on the paid tier on the Gemini API and Google AI Studio.

Google Improves Creator Partnerships With AI Matching
Hana Kobzová
Google has announced new tools for creator-led campaigns. A key addition is Gemini-powered recommendations, helping brands choose from over three million YouTube Partner Program creators based on campaign goals.

Google announces Gemma 4: their most capable open models
Clement Farabet, Olivier Lacombe
Google is rolling out Gemma 4 in four versatile sizes, their most intelligent open models to date. Purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, Gemma 4 delivers an unprecedented level of intelligence-per-parameter.

Google Ask Maps is fully available in the US and India
Barry Schwartz
Google rolls out Ask Maps, a new feature in Google Maps that leverages Gemini to help users research local businesses, plan trips, get recommendations, and more to everyone in the US and India. 

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The 10 Key Characteristics of AI Search Winning Brands [With an Assessment Checklist]
Aleyda Solis
What makes a brand show up and get recommended across AI search platforms? Aleyda shares a list with a checklist to assess and optimize for AI visibility.

From Retrieved to Cited: How Commercial Content Earns Citations in AI Search
Oshen Davidson
Oshen analyzed 217,508 retrieved pages across 7,500 commercial prompts to identify which on-page content signals separate cited pages from retrieved but not cited pages in ChatGPT. The results say that early-discovery content with 5–7 statistics earns a 20% higher citation likelihood.

Top domains cited by AI search: Analysis based on 30M sources
Tomek Rudzki
Tomek analyzed 30 million sources across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews in the US to find out exactly which ones are commonly cited by LLMs. The research shows Reddit is the most-cited domain in LLM responses.

Why your content doesn’t appear in AI Overviews (even if it ranks in the top 10)
Martin Jeffrey
Top rankings don’t guarantee AI Overview visibility. Martin goes through how to optimize for retrieval, structure, and citations.

From Clicks to Citations: New AI Search Measurement Metrics
Francine Monahan
How do you share success with the C-Suite in the age of AI Search? Francine explains all about the new metrics they have developed at iPullRank.

The agentic web: How AI agents decide which brands make the cut
Leigh McKenzie
AI agents are browsing, comparing, and buying on behalf of your customers. Leigh goes through what the agentic web means for your brand visibility strategy.

“We Need To Have a Conversation About Garbage AI Content”
Chima Mmeje
Is it possible to scale AI content without losing quality? Chima shares how to build brand affinity, create standout content, and stay visible in AI search.

TurboQuant has the potential to fundamentally change how Search (and AI) works
Marie Haynes
Google's TurboQuant vector search breakthrough enables real-time semantic search, gives AI agents boundless memory, and powers smarter robotics. Marie goes through what it means for search. 

Legal Consequences of Using AI (PT1)
Nick LeRoy, Cari O'Brien
Intellectual property, advertising and misinformation, and data protection. Nick and Cari go through the 9 areas where AI risk lives in an organization.

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