Thursday, May 28

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⚡️ Today’s Headlines ⚡️

💰 Meta is launching new Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions with more to come. For $2.99-3.99/mo, consumers subscribing to Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus, or WhatsApp Plus will gain access to extra features like profile customization, super reactions, story insights, and more.

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🏷️ YouTube now auto-detects AI content & labels it for users. The changes aim to make it easier for everyone to see when AI is used in videos, thanks to automatic detection, and putting labels in more noticeable spots.

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✅ Google is rolling out Real-Time Policy Reviews. The new system is designed to dramatically speed up ad approvals by bringing policy checks directly into the ad creation process during campaign creation.

💡 Today’s Insight 💡

Users behave differently in AI Overviews vs AI Mode

🗞 TL;DR - New behavioral data from Clickstream Solutions shows that users interact with Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode in fundamentally different ways, meaning marketers need separate optimization strategies for each experience.

💡 Insight - Here are the four key findings from the data:

1. The same user often exhibits the opposite behavior in AI Mode vs AI Overviews. In 88% of AI Mode tasks, users took the AI’s shortlist as-is, 74% picked the item ranked first, and 64% clicked nothing at all. AI Mode is often a closed loop. Meanwhile, AI Overviews turn the SERP into more of a comparison environment.

2. Half of all scrolling now goes backward. The median user of an AI Overview SERP spends 47.5% of total scrolling going in reverse direction back up the page. Without an AI Overview, it’s 27% of total scrolling. This means that your brand’s listing in an AI Overview SERP isn’t getting one impression, it’s getting 2 or 3 and the second impression is where comparison happens.

3. Search type no longer predicts behavior. At 21 seconds into a session without an AI Overview, only 12% of navigational searchers are still on the page and 32% of local searchers are. With an AI Overview present, all five search intent types cluster between 41.9% and 48.5% time-on-page at 21 seconds. Intent-based segmentation still matters for what content you write, but less for predicting how long users will stick around on the SERP.

4. Brand searches have lost their shortcuts. Navigational queries (typing a brand name into Google) showed an increase of 40% in cursor activity when an AI Overview is on the page. Without an AIO, only 12% were still active at 21 seconds. The brand-name shortcut, which has long been the fastest path through Google Search, no longer has the advantage it used to.

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