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💸 Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers.
🤖 What the AI boom is getting wrong (and right), according to Hugging Face’s head of global policy.
🔍 Survey: 54% of people look through more search results vs. 5 years ago.
💁 The Adobe Experience Platform AI Assistant is now generally available to users.
💬 Meta announced new messaging tools for businesses to connect with customers via chat.
🔗 Study: 96% of sites in Google’s top 10 positions have 1,000+ links from unique domains.
20 Books Marketing Execs Are Reading This Summer
Take a peek at the books adland is cracking this summer:
- “The Upcycled Self” by Tariq Trotter — Franke Rodriguez, partner and New York CEO at Anomaly
- “Ascent to Power” by David Roll — Tariq Hassan, chief marketing officer at McDonald’s USA
- “The House of the Spirits” by Isabel Allende — Krystle Loyland, co-founder & CEO of Preacher
- “The Lioness of Boston” by Emily Franklin — Kate Cronin, chief brand officer at Moderna
- “Black AF History” by Michael Harriot — Damaune Journey, global chief growth officer at 72andSunny
- “The Kingdom of Prep” by Maggie Bullock — Robbie Salter, founder and co-CEO of Jupiter
- “Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind” by Kay Redfield Jamison — Mary Lou Bunn, founder and CEO at Flower Shop
- “Four Thousand Weeks” by Oliver Burkeman — Lee Anne Grant, chief growth officer at Babylist
- “Kindness and Wonder” by Gavin Edwards — Keith Cartwright, founder and chief creative officer at Cartwright
- “When Women Ran Fifth Avenue” by Julie Satow — Jenny Danzi, senior director of Pepsi
- “The Peacock and the Sparrow” by I.S. Berry — Josh Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO at Day One Agency
- “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” by Taylor Jenkins Reid — Sofia Colucci, CMO of Molson Coors North America
- “Leadership: In Turbulent Times” by Doris Kearns Goodwin — Jim O’Leary, CEO of Weber Shandwick North America
- “How to Know a Person” by David Brooks — William White, CMO of Walmart U.S.
- “The Creative Act” by Rick Rubin — Maggie Schmerin, chief advertising officer at United Airlines
- “Red Rising” by Pierce Brown — Kaki Bjorklund, group account director at Johannes Leonardo
- “Hidden Potential” by Adam Grant — Jared Belsky, CEO of Acadia
- “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Truman Capote — Barby Siegel, global CEO at Zeno Group
- “The Human Side of Innovation” by Mauro Porcini — Lindsay Radkoski, U.S. CMO at The Wendy’s Company
- “Learning From Las Vegas” by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour — Rich Tu, partner and executive creative director at Sunday Afternoon
Check out the blurbs at AdAge.
Smash or Pass
Heinz x KitKat have collaborated on a new abomination: The KitKat’Chup Bar.

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