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📸 You can now reorder images in your Instagram carousels.
📉 ChatGPT ads pilot leaves advertisers without proof of ROI.
🤖 YouTube launches Gemini-powered creator partnerships with AI matching.
😴 Sleep app Rest hijacks TikTok Shop broadcasts in the early hours.
🥤 What’s next for Stanley after the rise and fall of the water bottle craze?
📺 “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” launches a YouTube channel.
Google Ads Shortcuts to Know
The best PPC managers eliminate unnecessary manual work through smart shortcuts and built-in automation.
Features like negative keyword lists, labels, and automated recommendations exist specifically to reduce “busy work” and prevent account bloat.
Here are shortcuts to know:
- Remove duplicate keywords to simplify account structure.
- Use negative keyword lists to control irrelevant traffic at scale.
- Apply labels for easier organization and testing.
- Run experiments to test changes without risk.
- Add audiences in observation mode for deeper insights before narrowing targeting.
- Leverage Insights & Recommendations tabs for quick performance analysis.
Take a closer look at Search Engine Journal.
Q for You
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone of himself. Let's react.
Iris
Iris helps you answer RFPs, questionnaires, and sales-related documents faster by reusing past answers and company knowledge.
Instead of starting from scratch every time, you upload your existing materials (like previous RFP responses, docs, or knowledge bases) and the tool pulls from that to generate accurate answers in seconds.
Basically, Iris removes redundancy by acting as a centralized “answer library” that continuously improves as you use it. Nice.
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Lump Lottery
Young men already know they should check themselves for testicular cancer. They just don’t do it.
So instead of more education, the “Lump Lottery” campaign by Testicular Cancer NZ and Colenso BBDO introduces a behavioral trigger: the chance to win a ute.
Leaning into Kiwi masculinity and humor, participants are guided to learn how to check themselves, report whether they’ve found a lump, and enter to win.
You know what to do if you want that truck.
Ads from The Past

Canada Dry, 1950s


