Digital Marketing Deep Dive: Weekly & Monthly Insights

I’ll be sharing Digital Marketing News updates on a weekly basis, covering the most important stories, trends, and conversations shaping search, SEO, AI, and digital marketing.

Alongside these, I’ll also publish larger monthly deep-dive episodes, taking a more in-depth look at major SEO and AI developments when a topic deserves deeper analysis (see examples below).

Weekly Digital Marketing News Episodes

03/11

This episode of Search With Sean: Weekly News explores how AI is reshaping digital marketing - from record-low click-through rates and Reddit’s growing power in search, to ChatGPT’s move towards ads, Perplexity’s £400 million Snapchat deal, and how brands are adapting to changing user behaviour and trust online.

Includes: Nicola Agius, Laura Iancu & Harry Clarkson - Bennett

10/11

This week’s roundup covered Google’s fake-review crackdown, rising Discover spam, a charity’s 27,000% traffic surge, emerging ChatGPT ads, AI-generated music, zero-click search trends, Consent Mode v2 issues, new AI shopping features, the rise of answer-engine influence, plus standout videos on SEO vs GEO vs AEO, 2026 social trends, and Sam Altman’s new digital ID project.

Includes: Nicola Agius and Amanda Walls

17/11

This week’s roundup covered Google’s long-awaited branded-query filters, Ofcom’s controversial AI-powered VPN tracking, LinkedIn’s shift to natural-language people search, Microsoft’s risky new health-focused Copilot, the volatility of AI citations, key video insights on AI vs traditional search, and standout social stories including a chaotic Perplexity/Gemini domain redirect and Adobe’s huge $1.9B Semrush acquisition reshaping the SEO landscape.

Includes: Nicola Agius, Laura Iancu & Stanislav Farkas

08/12

In this round-up, we covered a packed episode spanning algorithm updates, AI-driven discovery, and where search is heading next — from Google’s December core update and the growing impact of AI Overviews on paid and local search, to shifting user behaviour in Copilot, new monetisation tests in SERPs, and key signals from Search Console, social conversations, and expert insights on zero-click journeys and AI visibility going into 2026.

Includes: Nicola Agius, Amanda Walls and Stanislav Farkas

Latest Monthly Digital Marketing News Episode

The big news episodes dive deep into the stories shaping digital marketing (not just the usual headlines) but a wide range of developments across AI, search, platforms, and strategy — with weekly shows covering the fast-moving updates in between.

Where to watch or listen

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