Ranking is out, visibility is in as publishers chip away at AI search optimization

The AI search era is rewiring the goal from ranking to visibility, and publishers are slowly but steadily tuning their playbooks.

Think of it as zero-click mechanics. That means optimizing for citations, tracking and interpreting assistant referrals, and clean feeds – structured data to make it easy for LLMs to read, not just blue links. 

Anyone unconvinced the blue-links era is fading need only have listened to publishers at Digiday’s Publishing Summit Europe town hall last week in Lisbon to hear the true state of things. 

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Target layoffs hit almost all corners of the business, from merchants to engineers

The story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail

Target’s widespread corporate layoffs this week trimmed down teams throughout the company, leaving some who remain picking up responsibilities from those affected.

The layoffs included employees spanning across engineering, product design, analytics, guest experience, creative, strategy, merchandising, HR, operations and legal, according to a Modern Retail analysis of around 60 posts from Target employees who posted on LinkedIn this week looking for work, as well as posts from remaining employees.

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