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.
1269 episodes transcribedAn Australian study has proven what we probably knew all along: AI isn’t as good at writing titles and descriptions as the techbros think it is..Today...
Meta's new feature lets you “pre-silence” the haters. The only real question is… why did it take so long?.Today’s story links.📰 Get our free dail...
The battle of WordPress escalates — and marketers are caught in the middle. The two powerhouses in B2B advertising. Amazon’s new AI shopping wingman....
The U.S. government wants Google broken up. We have all the details, including how it might affect the ad market. Also: Brands go big on Black Friday...
The Beemer Trap: How adopting your customers’ nicknames for your brand can hurt you. Gen Z has a new app and it’s already driving sales. Can you run a...
In the uncomfortable threesome of Google, brand web sites, and AI, is relationship harmony possible? Maybe so. Also: Microsoft shuts down part of its...
Today, Tod speaks with Steve Pratt, author of the new book “Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers.” His book is available at https://...
Advertising in AI responses... Temu gets kicked out… Attention data is now for sale… and how many ads is too many? Amazon’s about to find out..Today’s...
Big Budgets, Small Wins. Is this new pricing trend troublesome for marketers? Pinterest rolls out a beefed up ad platform. Threads gives you more time...
A surprising drop for Instagram — less posting, fewer ad dollars. Why Meta’s loss turns out to be Meta’s gain. TikTok wants its users to flip out, as...
We marketers make a lot of assumptions about people. That conservatives like big show’ey patriotism like flags and anthems. And progressives like anyt...
A trademark dispute escalates — and thousands of brand web sites are caught in the middle. The one gift recipient your marketing isn’t accounting for....
There’s one place to be if you want to make lots of impulse sales — and it’s where a lot of brands aren’t. The hidden benefits of asking for reviews....
A new study puts Google’s bid strategies to the test and finds out they do exactly what they promise — sometimes to the detriment of other benefits. A...
Advertising copy is full of numbers — prices, quantities, phone numbers, and more. But what if marketers have been using numbers wrong this whole time...
Pixel Pushback — That marketing code on your web site could land you in front of a judge soon. The lawsuits, in fact, are already being filed. We’ll t...
Major brands beside horrible content — and this time it's not on X. Gen Z will be spending more than you think this holiday. Roku and Reddit both...
Broken and buggy: With millions of ad dollars lost from an unstable ad platform, why isn’t Meta prioritizing fixing its site? The new YouTube placemen...
YouTube's plan to combat the onslaught of AI-generated garbage is to let you [checks notes] create hundreds of your own? Plus: Brands spent millio...
Meta gets updates, affiliate marketing has challenges, Bluesky gets 10 million, and deep inside the YouTube trend that’s making weather reports trendy...
