Selling Inside ChatGPT: What Agentic Commerce Means for Small UK Retailers
The shopping trip that starts and ends in a chat window Something changed in how people shop online this year, and most small retailers have not caught up with it yet. AI-attributed orders to Shopify stores are now up 11 times since January 2025, according to commerce data cited by Elogic Commerce. That is not […]
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ChatGPT Ads Just Went Pan-European: What UK Businesses Should Do With Their Head Start
Today, ChatGPT ads landed in 31 more European countries, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. It is OpenAI’s biggest advertising rollout since it began testing ads in the US back in February. For UK businesses, today marks the end of something quieter: an eleven-week head start most never knew they had. We have […]
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Google AI Mode Passed 1 Billion Users: Is Your Business Showing Up in It?
Sundar Pichai stood up at Google I/O 2026 and said something that should get the attention of every UK small business still treating a page-one Google ranking as the finish line. AI Mode, the conversational search experience Google launched barely a year earlier, has passed one billion monthly active users. AI Overviews, the AI-written summaries […]
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68% of Google Searches Now End Without a Click: What UK Trades Should Do About It
The number that should worry every trades business New research from SparkToro, built on Similarweb clickstream data, puts a hard figure on something most of us have felt for a while: 68.01% of Google searches in early 2026 ended without a single click through to a website. That is up from 60.45% just two years […]
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Kling 3.0 vs Seedance 2.0: Cheaper, Audio-Native AI Video for UK Small Businesses
Six months ago, a decent 30 second video advert meant booking a crew, a location and a day of your week, then waiting for an invoice somewhere between £3,000 and £8,000. We know because we have priced this for clients. That is still true if you want a broadcast quality brand film. But for the […]
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Is Higgsfield Reliable Enough for Your Business? The New Production Stack Reviewed
We run this stack every day, so we are not guessing We get asked a version of this question most weeks now: is Higgsfield reliable enough to put real client budget behind? We are in a good position to answer honestly, because we are not reviewing Higgsfield from a demo account. We run it inside […]
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Google Gemini Omni: How to Make and Edit Marketing Videos Just by Talking
Google has quietly turned video editing into a conversation. Gemini Omni, launched at Google I/O 2026 and opened up to developers on 30 June, lets you generate a short video from a text prompt, then keep talking to it: “change the background to a Scandinavian kitchen”, “make it golden hour”, “add a glass of water […]
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Sora Is Gone: What the AI Video Shake-Up Means for Small Business Marketing
What actually happened to Sora In March 2026, OpenAI posted a short goodbye to Sora on X. By 26 April, the app and web experience were switched off entirely, with the developer API following on 24 September 2026. Six months earlier, Sora had topped the iOS App Store and passed a million downloads in its […]
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Lovable 2.0 for Small Teams: What the Latest Update Actually Lets You Build
We build inside Lovable most weeks now, so when clients ask us what “Lovable went multiplayer” actually means for a five-person business, we can give a straight answer instead of a marketing one. The short version: Lovable’s 2.0 update turned it from a solo prototyping tool into something a small team can build production software […]
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Cursor 3.9 Automations: Turning Vibe Coding Into Always-On Business Agents
Vibe coding was fun. Then you closed the laptop. Most people’s first experience of Cursor, or any AI coding agent, is a burst of energy. You describe what you want in plain English, the agent writes the code, and for an afternoon you feel like you have a developer on staff. Then you close the […]
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