🏆 Here are all the 2026 Cannes Lions winners.

🤖 By 2027, Meta plans to use AI for over 90% of content and review.

📱 YouTube Shorts has a new look that removes distractions and dislikes.

📊 Survey: What CFOs really want from CMOs.

✏️ Warner Bros Animation reveals a new logo to celebrate hand-drawn animation.

SEO expert Suganthan Mohanadasan inspected the browser network traffic behind ChatGPT answers to see what was happening under the hood.

The takeaway: ChatGPT doesn’t rank websites like Google. It gathers potential sources from several retrieval systems, then selects the pages that best support specific claims in its response. That means being mentioned, being fetched, and being cited are three different things.

Reddit punches above its weight because discussions are easy for AI to parse, while YouTube videos are often retrieved but rarely cited since the model can’t easily quote spoken content from a video’s metadata alone.

Here’s what that means for us:

• Write one authoritative page instead of many shallow ones.
• Put important facts in plain text, not buried in images, PDFs, or JavaScript.
• Earn mentions on trusted third-party sites like Reddit, review sites, and industry publications.
• Structure content with clear headings and concise sections so AI can easily extract information.
• Traditional SEO still matters, but AI visibility increasingly depends on how easy your content is to understand and cite, not just where it ranks in Google.

Heaed to the blog to dive deeper.

Honestly pulls together real product conversations from Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and X. Then, it verifies whether posts are authentic, sponsored, or AI-generated.

It surfaces recurring themes, sentiment, emerging trends, and creator opportunities, plus it can also identify creators who are already talking about your products.

It’s essentially a smarter form of social listening.

Don’t miss the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show, “Marketing as Infrastructure: Our Cannes Titanium Lions Picks,” Shannon shares the Carney shortlist of campaigns that raised the bar and changed the game over the last year.

🎙️ Plus, catch up on Season 2:

• Silent Spring: Is Rainbox Capitalism Dead? (11:41)
• The Future of Google Search (9:56)
• GLP-1s are Disrupting Every Sector (9:56)
• Spirit Airlines 2.0: Will it Fly? (11:08)
• Major Platform Updates (8:17)
• Nike Runs into Controversy (12:19)
• Transgressive OOH (18:45)
• Your Brain on AI (12:33)
• Meta, McDonald’s Mukbang, and The OpenAI Mess (14:41)
• Ethics in the AI Era (18:33)

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The Daily Carnage Show Ep 2.11 Discussion: “Whether or not it appears on a Cannes Lions shortlist… What work from 2025-2026 do you think raises the bar for marketers and brands? Drop your kudos and links here!”

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The FIFA World Cup is an emotional rollercoaster.

So, Taco Bell is using its app to reward fans whether their team wins or loses.

Through the Taco Bell app, members can choose either Celebration Mode or Support Mode, complete gamified challenges, unlock free tacos, and compete for exclusive merchandise.

There are also surprise taco giveaways, branded activations, and fan experiences around the world.

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