B2B content syndicator NetLine is offering free insights into buyer interests in the form of Audience Explorer, which lets marketers see top trending topics among user-specified segments based on job function, job level, company size, industry and region. Fun to play with but less useful than it sounds because the categories are quite broad. As in, the top category for marketers is “marketing”.

Maybe marketers should just go back to buying broadcast TV. Industry trade group TVB thinks that would be fine. They just issued a report that finds traditional TV still has more influence on buying than any other medium.

Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content.   But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines.  Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results.  We’ll see if competitors do the same.