Ranking in Google’s top 10 is a weaker indicator of being cited in AI Overviews than it was last year, according to an updated Ahrefs analysis. The study examined 863,000 keywords and 4 million AI Overview URLs. It found that 38% of cited pages also appeared in the top 10 results for the same query. […]
YouTube’s AI Slop Problem And How Marketers Can Compete
One in five Shorts that YouTube recommends to new users is low-quality, mass-produced AI-generated video, often described as “AI slop.” YouTube CEO Neal Mohan used that label himself in his January 2026 annual letter, pledging to build on YouTube’s spam and clickbait-detection systems to combat it. A Kapwing study of 15,000 trending channels identified 278 […]