Every Friday: An information-packed 15-minute summary of everything you missed in the world of digital marketing, e-commerce, and social media that week. Every Tuesday: A deep-dive episode into one specific digital marketing topic.
1260 episodes transcribedToday: They’re all over TikTok, but those videos aren’t real — tell that to the marketers scrambling to make them. Also: Google beefs up its platform...
AI disrupts YouTube thumbnails, CTV ad placement remains elusive, why you might need to block GPT from crawling your brand’s web site, and the social...
In this special episode, a deep-dive into auditing your Meta ad account. Tod speaks with Alex Afterman — Alex has been managing Meta ads for almost a...
Meet the generation redefining brand loyalty. TikTok tests privacy-aware campaigns. Amazon’s ad sales were stratospheric. And X marks the spot… wait…...
It’s the new banner blindness — and it’s what’s behind the rush to use social media influencers. Also: How many are too many? At what point will Googl...
Are brand safety tools too white? That video editor you’re using might be leaking your brand’s data. A mixed bag of growth for Pinterest.And on the ad...
They don’t want to, but they might have to — how Meta’s proposal for handling personalized ads might cripple their ad business. Microsoft’s version of...
Why experts say the X super-app is doomed from the start. Instagram is testing some nice generative AI tools that can help your organic content. A new...
Netflix drops ad prices… The final numbers on media spend during Prime Day… Why the Barbie blockbuster isn’t a financial boon... And TweetDeck will so...
AI Anxiety: Are Shopify’s plans for robot reps the dark future of customer service? Slowdown? What slowdown? Facebook hits 3B monthly active users. Wa...
Desperate times: Twitter slashes ad prices, while threatening its shrinking advertiser base. Google’s Dynamic Search Ads get an upgrade that is making...
Branding Blunder: The reviews are in, and nobody thinks Twitter’s new name is going to help the beleaguered company. Also: Threads moves fast to capit...
High workload, low pay — the real story behind Google’s outsourced ad reps. Also: Whatever brand equity was left in Twitter has been X’ed out, and Tik...
What ad budgets are spent in Vegas, stay in Vegas… Your brand’s AI-generated content may soon come with a watermark… YouTube rolls out a handy update...
Microsoft takes a page — and a name — from Google. Will Amazon’s latest announcement change how companies ship products? More payments coming from the...
A big legal decision that could have changed social media forever. Pinterest gets deep. Meta waits for Europe. Google tells us how well AI-generated c...
Email exploit: How one message could bring down your brand’s WhatsApp account. Bing’s chatbot wants to be in big agencies. The Twitter challenger with...
Meta says it’s listening to its users — only not the way you think they are. How scammers are redirecting phone numbers from Google. TikTok gains a th...
In this special episode, Tod speaks with the author of a marketing research paper that studied the effect of a brand's social media posts on level...
Jumping into a TikTok trend that’s not brand-safe. Instagram upgrades its product tagging. The new Boost Mode that turns creator content into ads. And...
