Semrush used the Adobe Summit to announce a formal operating model built around what the company is calling “Brand Visibility”—a framework designed to replace channel-by-channel marketing execution with a coordinated system for managing how brands are discovered across both human and AI-mediated surfaces. The launch is accompanied by two research reports: Brand Visibility Orchestration: How to Execute on the Brand Visibility Operating Model and Brand Visibility in the AI Search Era: A Strategic Framework for CMOs.

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