76% of Gen Z Turn to AI Before a Doctor: 2026 Aflac Survey
Seventy-six percent of Gen Z and 63% of millennials now turn to AI tools for health support before seeking professional medical care, according to Aflac’s 2026 Wellness Matters…
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Google Opens Gemini Business-Profile Management to Multi-Location Accounts
Yes — as of August 2026, Google’s Gemini integration for Google Business Profile now works for accounts managing multiple locations, and it is globally available on desktop and…
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Reddit Citation Share Index 2026: Which Subreddits AI Engines Cite
Reddit is the single most-cited source layer AI answer engines pull from — in some verticals, more than 30% of an engine’s answer traces back to a subreddit,…
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AI Search and Brand Differentiation: 17 Health Systems’ 2026 Marketing Priorities
AI is fundamentally changing how consumers search for care, as Google and chatbots increasingly answer queries directly instead of surfacing links. In this Becker’s roundup, CMOs at 17…
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Allina Health to Pay $12.5M to Settle Website Pixel Litigation
Allina Health System agreed to pay $12.5 million to resolve a consolidated class action over its use of website tracking pixels, one of the larger settlements in the…
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Federal Court Strikes Down South Dakota Dental Advertising Restrictions
A federal court struck down South Dakota’s dental advertising restrictions, ruling that dentists may market bona fide credentials—including implant dentistry—even in areas the American Dental Association does not…
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73% of Healthcare Sites Run Ad Trackers That Ignore Opt-Outs
73% of 59 major U.S. hospital and clinic websites were running advertising or marketing trackers even when visitors sent an active Global Privacy Control opt-out signal, according to…
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Optimizely Enters the AEO Race With Agent Visibility Analytics
Optimizely launched a full Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) platform on June 10, 2026, introducing Agent Visibility Analytics and a new data-sharing partnership with Conductor. Built inside Optimizely Analytics,…
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The Attribution Problem Your Board Doesn’t Understand
Healthcare marketing attribution is genuinely hard for multi-site groups because patient journeys are long, largely offline, and privacy-constrained—and a budget you can’t defend is a budget that gets…
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Local Search in the Age of AI: 6 Moves for Healthcare Marketers
Winning healthcare local search now means appearing as the trusted answer across search engines, maps, and AI tools—not simply ranking on Google. Press Ganey outlines six priorities: maintain…