James Smith March 13, 2026 — A study by Graphite.io reveals that AI assistants dominate 56% of global search volume, with 45 billion monthly sessions worldwide and ChatGPT capturing 89%, marking a significant shift in online search behavior driven by tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok and Claude. The analysis, titled “AI Is Much Bigger Than You … Read more
March 12, 2026 — Mountain View, Calif. Google announced the launch of its Gemini AI-powered “Ask Maps” feature in Google Maps, enabling users to pose complex, natural-language questions about locations and receive personalized responses drawn from over 300 million places and user data. The Google Maps Launches AI-Powered “Ask Maps” Feature, as detailed in a … Read more
March 12, 2026 — Tokyo — LINE Plus Corporation unveiled ActEngine AI, a B2B platform featuring AI agents for customer service and sales, positioning messaging apps as direct sales channels in Asia. The system is deployed in Thailand’s LINE MAN Wongnai platform, which connects over 700,000 merchants, where the customer service agent handles approximately 360,000 … Read more
March 10, 2026 — Foxwell Founders released the Foxwell Founders Releases 2026 State of Digital Marketing Agencies Report, a survey of over 550 agency leaders managing more than $1 billion in monthly ad spend, produced in partnership with Motion. The report identifies AI as the top business threat for 30% of leaders in the next … Read more
March 12, 2026 — Google launched the Google Maps Launches AI-Powered “Ask Maps” Feature, a new Gemini AI-powered conversational tool enabling users to pose complex natural-language questions about places and get personalized recommendations. The feature draws from data on over 300 million locations and contributions from hundreds of millions of users, rolling out immediately in … Read more
March 10, 2026 — Target uses AI to predict retail trends and speed up product decisions through its internal “Trend Brain” platform, as detailed in a MarketingTechNews report. The AI analyzes fashion photos, social media sentiment, and data to identify emerging trends like polka dots early, enabling designers to rotate collections twice as fast. This … Read more
March 15, 2026 — Tokyo, Japan LINE Plus Corporation, a subsidiary of LY Corporation, launched ActEngine AI, a B2B AI agent infrastructure platform, on March 10, 2026, to deploy autonomous AI agents for customer service and sales directly within messaging apps like LINE. The platform aims to automate business processes, reduce support times, and drive … Read more
March 2, 2026 — OpenAI launched ChatGPT advertising goes live at $60 CPM as part of its entry into the programmatic ad market, integrating with Criteo, the first major ad-tech platform to enable access for around 17,000 advertisers. The ads appear in the US Free and Go subscription tiers, with early reporting limited to impressions … Read more
March 14, 2026 — Mumbai, India MiQ, a global programmatic media partner, launched its AI-powered platform ‘MiQ Sigma’ in India to simplify multi-platform advertising, unifying planning, activation, and measurement across fragmented digital ecosystems including OTT, retail media, and web. The platform, developed at MiQ’s Bengaluru Centre of Excellence, leverages over 700 trillion signals from 300+ … Read more
March 15, 2026 — Worldwide — AI assistants now account for 56% of global search volume, per Graphite.io study[1][2], according to a detailed analysis by Ethan Smith, CEO of Graphite.io. The report, based on Q4 2025 data from Similarweb, shows AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, and Claude generating 45 billion monthly sessions worldwide, … Read more