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Pomelli

Google Labs’ Pomelli, designed for small and medium-sized businesses, analyzes your site to build a “Business DNA” profile.

It identifies brand elements like tone of voice, colors, fonts, imagery, and messaging. Then, it uses that information to generate marketing campaign concepts, social assets, ad creatives, and other materials.

The assets are editable, so you’ll have control over the final output.

Cyfe

Cyfe is an all-in-one dashboard platform for tracking marketing, sales, analytics, social, and business performance in one place.

It’s best for teams juggling multiple tools and data sources who need a simpler way to monitor performance without constantly switching tabs. You can build custom dashboards, automate reporting, and keep stakeholders aligned with real-time metrics.

Brew

Brew is an AI-native platform for generating personalized cold emails, building sequences, and testing messaging in one place.

It’s best for lean teams that need to launch campaigns, iterate on positioning, and adapt messaging quickly. You can focus on strategy while the AI handles the repetitive execution layer.

Forum

Meta’s new app, Forum, is essentially a cleaner, standalone version of Facebook Groups designed to compete more directly with platforms like Reddit.

It removes Groups from the Facebook ecosystem and focuses entirely on community conversations and interest-based discussions.

Sign in with your Facebook account and your existing groups, activity, and profile automatically carry over into the app.

It also integrates Reddit-style discovery, nickname posting, and an AI moderation tools for admins.

Ask Advisor

Google’s new Ask Advisor tool is an AI-powered marketing collaborator across Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Merchant Center.

It connects data from each platform to provide recommendations, insights, and workflow automation.

The system can automatically pull product information, suggest campaign structures, and help launch ads faster.

It can also interpret performance trends, explain what influenced results, and recommend next steps.

Monocle

Monocle is a macOS tool that reduces your visual clutter by blurring everything on your screen except your active window.

It’s like visual noise-cancellation for your desktop, gently fading background apps so your attention naturally stays on the task in front of you. The blur effect resembles Apple’s UI, so it feels native.

You can also switch between softer ambient blur and deeper fullscreen focus modes, customize shortcuts, exclude certain apps, and use it across multiple displays.

Microsoft Clarity

Microsoft Clarity lets you watch real user sessions unfold in real time.

Its heatmaps reveal where users are focusing attention and where they completely lose interest. Session recordings expose friction points that are eating into conversions.

New automated summaries and conversational insights can surface patterns without requiring hours of manual analysis, too.

And it’s completely free, forever. No traffic caps.

Social Media Size Guide (2026)

You know the drill.

Updated social media image and video size guides for Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, Threads, Substack. And X, too, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Twilio’s Conversation Layer

Twilio announced a new “Conversation Layer” at SIGNAL 2026, designed to preserve customer context across chat, voice, SMS, and email.

Instead of forcing customers to repeat information every time they switch channels or agents, an identity-based conversation history will follow the interaction across touchpoints.

The system also enables real-time orchestration between AI and human agents, allowing businesses to automate portions of conversations while escalating more complex moments.

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