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INSIGHTS

What Is Answer Engine Optimization? AEO, Explained

Jul 16, 2026

Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the narrow discipline of making your content retrievable by AI models. What it covers, how it works, where it stops.

INSIGHTS

AI Brand Monitoring: What It Is, Tools, and What It Misses

Jul 16, 2026

AI brand monitoring tracks what ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity say about your brand. Here is how it works and what mention counts leave out.

INSIGHTS

Nvidia Is Hiring Someone to Market to Agents

Jul 15, 2026

Nvidia is hiring a Director of Agent Marketing, and the job description names the audience out loud. Versions of this role will spread until marketing to agents is simply called marketing.

UPDATES

Google's AI search opt-out controls begin rolling out worldwide in Search Console

Jul 14, 2026

Google's Search Console control for opting out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover AI features is rolling out beyond the UK, making AI visibility an explicit setting.

UPDATES

OpenAI shuts down the ChatGPT Atlas browser, folding agentic browsing into ChatGPT Work

Jul 13, 2026

OpenAI will retire the ChatGPT Atlas browser on August 9, nine months after launch, folding its agentic browsing into the new ChatGPT Work desktop app.

UPDATES

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads with custom audiences, suggested ad drafts, and new markets

Jul 13, 2026

OpenAI adds custom audiences, an account overview tab, suggested ad drafts, a refreshed ad card, and Japan and South Korea targeting to ChatGPT Ads.

UPDATES

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and a ChatGPT Work agent, retiring GPT-5.4 within two weeks

Jul 10, 2026

OpenAI shipped the GPT-5.6 model family (Sol, Terra, Luna) and a ChatGPT Work agent on July 9 — swapping the default model behind ChatGPT's answers and retiring GPT-5.4 on July 23.

NEWS

Salesforce puts brand shopping agents inside ChatGPT

Jul 8, 2026

Agentforce Commerce is generally available, with brand shopper agents integrating natively into ChatGPT this month and Google's AI surfaces later this summer.

RESEARCH

What AI Believes About Your Brand

May 26, 2026

A synthesis of four research papers from the Unusual.ai research series—37,000+ survey questions against ChatGPT and Claude—and what they imply for established brands marketing into AI commerce.

TUTORIALS

How to Tell if AI is an Advocate for Your Brand

May 22, 2026

This guide is the deep dive on how to measure whether AI is making your prospects more likely to convert (advocate) or less likely to convert (detractor).

INSIGHTS

How Google Search Agents Changes Marketing

May 22, 2026

This week, Google released personal shopping assistants designed to help shoppers "find exactly what they need at exactly the right moment." Here's how that changes marketing.

INSIGHTS

How To Prepare Your Brand for When AI Is Your Buyer

May 19, 2026

Brand strategy is changing. The audience is changing; the discipline is maturing around it.

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INSIGHTS

What Is Answer Engine Optimization? AEO, Explained

Jul 16, 2026

Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the narrow discipline of making your content retrievable by AI models. What it covers, how it works, where it stops.

INSIGHTS

AI Brand Monitoring: What It Is, Tools, and What It Misses

Jul 16, 2026

AI brand monitoring tracks what ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity say about your brand. Here is how it works and what mention counts leave out.

INSIGHTS

Nvidia Is Hiring Someone to Market to Agents

Jul 15, 2026

Nvidia is hiring a Director of Agent Marketing, and the job description names the audience out loud. Versions of this role will spread until marketing to agents is simply called marketing.

UPDATES

Google's AI search opt-out controls begin rolling out worldwide in Search Console

Jul 14, 2026

Google's Search Console control for opting out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover AI features is rolling out beyond the UK, making AI visibility an explicit setting.

UPDATES

OpenAI shuts down the ChatGPT Atlas browser, folding agentic browsing into ChatGPT Work

Jul 13, 2026

OpenAI will retire the ChatGPT Atlas browser on August 9, nine months after launch, folding its agentic browsing into the new ChatGPT Work desktop app.

UPDATES

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads with custom audiences, suggested ad drafts, and new markets

Jul 13, 2026

OpenAI adds custom audiences, an account overview tab, suggested ad drafts, a refreshed ad card, and Japan and South Korea targeting to ChatGPT Ads.

UPDATES

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and a ChatGPT Work agent, retiring GPT-5.4 within two weeks

Jul 10, 2026

OpenAI shipped the GPT-5.6 model family (Sol, Terra, Luna) and a ChatGPT Work agent on July 9 — swapping the default model behind ChatGPT's answers and retiring GPT-5.4 on July 23.

NEWS

Salesforce puts brand shopping agents inside ChatGPT

Jul 8, 2026

Agentforce Commerce is generally available, with brand shopper agents integrating natively into ChatGPT this month and Google's AI surfaces later this summer.

RESEARCH

What AI Believes About Your Brand

May 26, 2026

A synthesis of four research papers from the Unusual.ai research series—37,000+ survey questions against ChatGPT and Claude—and what they imply for established brands marketing into AI commerce.

TUTORIALS

How to Tell if AI is an Advocate for Your Brand

May 22, 2026

This guide is the deep dive on how to measure whether AI is making your prospects more likely to convert (advocate) or less likely to convert (detractor).

INSIGHTS

How Google Search Agents Changes Marketing

May 22, 2026

This week, Google released personal shopping assistants designed to help shoppers "find exactly what they need at exactly the right moment." Here's how that changes marketing.

INSIGHTS

How To Prepare Your Brand for When AI Is Your Buyer

May 19, 2026

Brand strategy is changing. The audience is changing; the discipline is maturing around it.

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The Unusual Feed

INSIGHTS

What Is Answer Engine Optimization? AEO, Explained

Jul 16, 2026

Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the narrow discipline of making your content retrievable by AI models. What it covers, how it works, where it stops.

INSIGHTS

AI Brand Monitoring: What It Is, Tools, and What It Misses

Jul 16, 2026

AI brand monitoring tracks what ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity say about your brand. Here is how it works and what mention counts leave out.

INSIGHTS

Nvidia Is Hiring Someone to Market to Agents

Jul 15, 2026

Nvidia is hiring a Director of Agent Marketing, and the job description names the audience out loud. Versions of this role will spread until marketing to agents is simply called marketing.

UPDATES

Google's AI search opt-out controls begin rolling out worldwide in Search Console

Jul 14, 2026

Google's Search Console control for opting out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover AI features is rolling out beyond the UK, making AI visibility an explicit setting.

UPDATES

OpenAI shuts down the ChatGPT Atlas browser, folding agentic browsing into ChatGPT Work

Jul 13, 2026

OpenAI will retire the ChatGPT Atlas browser on August 9, nine months after launch, folding its agentic browsing into the new ChatGPT Work desktop app.

UPDATES

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads with custom audiences, suggested ad drafts, and new markets

Jul 13, 2026

OpenAI adds custom audiences, an account overview tab, suggested ad drafts, a refreshed ad card, and Japan and South Korea targeting to ChatGPT Ads.

UPDATES

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and a ChatGPT Work agent, retiring GPT-5.4 within two weeks

Jul 10, 2026

OpenAI shipped the GPT-5.6 model family (Sol, Terra, Luna) and a ChatGPT Work agent on July 9 — swapping the default model behind ChatGPT's answers and retiring GPT-5.4 on July 23.

NEWS

Salesforce puts brand shopping agents inside ChatGPT

Jul 8, 2026

Agentforce Commerce is generally available, with brand shopper agents integrating natively into ChatGPT this month and Google's AI surfaces later this summer.

RESEARCH

What AI Believes About Your Brand

May 26, 2026

A synthesis of four research papers from the Unusual.ai research series—37,000+ survey questions against ChatGPT and Claude—and what they imply for established brands marketing into AI commerce.

TUTORIALS

How to Tell if AI is an Advocate for Your Brand

May 22, 2026

This guide is the deep dive on how to measure whether AI is making your prospects more likely to convert (advocate) or less likely to convert (detractor).

INSIGHTS

How Google Search Agents Changes Marketing

May 22, 2026

This week, Google released personal shopping assistants designed to help shoppers "find exactly what they need at exactly the right moment." Here's how that changes marketing.

INSIGHTS

How To Prepare Your Brand for When AI Is Your Buyer

May 19, 2026

Brand strategy is changing. The audience is changing; the discipline is maturing around it.

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