Not Your Grandma's Influencer
Episode Date: March 7, 2025This week: Why 5 is better than 25... Google's secretive new rating system... Snapchat's map algorithm is revealed... and the generation that&...
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1259 episodes transcribedThis week: Why 5 is better than 25... Google's secretive new rating system... Snapchat's map algorithm is revealed... and the generation that&...
Earlier this month, a TikTok video of mine went viral — and it turned into a large-scale tourism marketing campaign. Steve Dotto chats with me about h...
This week: Why a blowout Super Bowl game is tanking ad recall… Meta and X are caught approving AI-generated ads referencing hate crimes… YouTube's...
This week: TikTok’s ad manager gets a big upgrade… Spotify’s ad biz is tanking despite a profitable year… Google’s throwing cash at you to try its ad...
This week, our Google Ads correspondent Jyll Saskin-Gales is here to discuss the introduction of negative keywords in Performance Max campaigns, the n...
This week: The hack to get your brand web traffic from Reddit... big changes to Google's Local Services Ads... Will YouTube's milestone this w...
Our Meta ads correspondent Andrew Foxwell joins Tod to discuss the big changes to Meta's Advantage+ campaigns, including the trustworthiness of Me...
This week — big changes to Meta's main ad product, Google's AI is causing traffic to some web sites to plummet, the simple URL hack that can b...
Tod chats with Jeremy Yang — co-author of a new paper that proposes a new metric for influencer marketing. His paper's "PE Score" measures...
This week — you can now rent the very top of YouTube by the hour… The cost to advertise on Meta’s platform is up 14%... Busting a common myth about pa...
Dr. Robert Smith joins Tod to discus his recent research on how enjoyment in the production process impacts buyers and sellers. The study reveals that...
This week — ads are finally coming to Threads... how TikTok's crazy week affected its advertisers... a whole bunch of Performance Max updates... a...
Diversity and inclusion (D&I) have become buzzwords in many industries, especially as consumers increasingly demand greater representation and fai...
This week — the hammer finally comes down on TikTok. What that means for ad prices ahead. Also: Why Google may be blocking third-party search tools. M...
Our Meta Ads correspondent Andrew Foxwell joins Tod to discuss the impact on marketers of Meta’s recent policy changes, including the removal of fact-...
Meta goes all in for Trump. What does it mean for marketers and brand safety? Also: A big flaw in the methodology of A/B testing has been found. TikTo...
Today, our Google Ads correspondent Jyll Saskin Gales tells us what’s in store for Google Ads in the coming year..📰 Get our free daily newsletter🌍 F...
Meta floods its platforms with fake profiles. Free advertising on Amazon, but it comes with a big catch. The huge hit taken by retailers on product re...
How faking discounts is getting some marketers in hot water... the truth about disavowing toxic backlinks... why you should SLOW DOWN your shipping......
Tod speaks with Andrew Hutchinson about his predictions of what 2025 will look like for the major social media platforms, digital marketers, and the e...