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BRANDS

📧 Béis gets called out for its dirty Cyber Monday email stunt.

🎬 Netflix looks to acquire Warner Bros. for $83 billion.

😬 The Squidward Crocs are worse than we could have imagined.

SOCIAL

🛟 Meta launches a 24/7 support hub.

🌀 Meta prioritizes Gen Z in Facebook redesign.

VIDEO

🎨 U.S. users can now change their Reels algorithms.

🤝 TikTok launches collaborative Shared Feed options.

⏱️ The YouTube Shorts algorithm appears to have changed to prioritize newer uploads.

TRENDS

🫥 Consumers in 2026 will be full of paradoxes, predicts Dentsu.

✨ Here is Google’s Year in Search 2025.

⚡️ Gen Z doesn’t care about your brand heritage.

🅰️ Why is the Calibri font in the news?

Monday: YouTube has finally rolled out Title A/B testing globally after months of limited access. Every creator with advanced features can now experiment with up to three titles, thumbnails, or title–thumbnail combos inside the Test & Compare tool. YouTube is prioritizing watch time as the deciding metric, not CTR. So, instead of rewarding clickbait titles, this system will elevate titles that attract and retain viewers. Not slop. Here’s what to know about Title A/B testing.

Tuesday: LinkedIn has introduced some new ad options to make scaling personalized creative and boosting awareness easier, more efficient, and measurable. Learn more about reserved ads, personalization, AI-powered creative tools, and flexible ad creation.

Wednesday: A study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Duke University, and The University of Hong Kong found that reappropriating unfair or irrelevant criticisms can increase ad click-through rates by up to 27%, making brands appear more confident, humorous, and likable. (Of course, you can preemptively create clever ads without waiting for criticism.) Here’s how to do it.

Thursday: Pinterest’s 2026 Trend Report is a story about emotional resonance, individual expression, and creative freedom. These insights can be helpful for anticipating and approximating what kinds of styles, products, or content will resonate in 2026 and why. So, here’s a quick breakdown of major themes.

Can you solve this puzzle? 🍔

🔥 Trending on The Daily Carnage Facebook group this week…

“When I run display ads I like to design banner ads in an array of Google Ad sizes, upload them and let them run. I do NOT like the hodge-podge design aspect of Dynamic Ads. Is it me or is Google making it harder and harder to get this sort of campaign running?”

💬 Our community of experts says:

• “You won’t get the same reach at all. They stack the deck against any controls. My rep today tried to tell me my bids impacted my ad strength, campaign level bids. That account uses ad group level bids.”
• “Yes. They really seem to prefer their Dynamic Ads. It’s frustrating. And if you run both the Dynamic ads will just completely dominate the campaign.”

“The Daily Carnage was the newsletter that brought us the most meaningful demo clicks and new trials.” — Danielle Blanchette, Digital Summit (2025)

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Season 1 of The Daily Carnage Show is streaming everywhere:

• Marketer Burnout: A Crisis of Creativity (16:29)
• Unhinged Marketing: The Age of Absurdity (15:07)
• State of Marketing: Pride Month, Neurodivergence, and More (18:40)
• Game-Changers: The Cannes Lions 2025 Shortlist (18:47)
• Brand vs. Planet: The Chilean Sea Bass (9:41)

Chip ‘N Dale Frozen Fudge Bars, 1991

Answer: Mississippi Pot Roast.

How ’bout them poll images, though? 😏