

OPERATIONAL INSIGHT
Google's Wild August 2025 Spam Update Finished Rolling Out
Google has completed the rollout of the August 2025 spam update, following a 27-day rollout cycle.
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Top Publishers Hand-Selecting Amazon Brands to Promote this Holiday Season
This holiday season, top publishers are actively sourcing brands to include in their gift guides, newsletters, listicles, reviews, and more to drive high-intent shoppers straight to Amazon storefronts.
Here’s why it matters:
Amazon brands are seeing a 5:1 conversion rate compared to their DTC site
Millions of shoppers discover products through trusted publishers
Levanta is working directly with these publishers to introduce them to a small number of 7–9 figure brands.
If you qualify, your products could be featured in high-traffic placements that deliver predictable CAC and directly measurable sales.
TECHNOLOGY
YouTube will now let you hide those pesky end screens
You can hit the ‘hide’ button to get rid of video suggestions that often cover up the video you’re watching.
BUSINESS
Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night
For now, though, email newsletters have “completely changed” 404’s business “almost literally overnight.”
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MARKET UPDATE
Digest: Google Adds Gemini to Chrome as AI Search Threatens Survival of Independent Publishers; UK Broadcaster Bosses Dismiss Merger Speculation
Google adds Gemini to Chrome and strikes multi-year AI partnership with PayPal.







