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may 9, 2024

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Yikes, Apple.

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Which brand launched the “Thank You, Mom” campaign in 2010 during the Olympic Games?

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Top Posts of The Week

✈️ Report: Here’s how Gen Z travels.

💊 Pharma advertisers are starting to tap the creator economy.

👵 You might need a night cream if you can pass the McSweeney’s Millennial CAPTCHA.

🍺 Budweiser turned songs that mention the brand into targeted ads on Spotify.

👽 Gen Z doesn’t actually care if influencers or human or not.

🪄 Instagram’s new “Reveal” feature for Stories creates engagement opportunities.

👻 How Snapchat is saving itself.

🧠 ChatGPT is getting closer to searching the web and citing sources.

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What We Learned

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Wednesday: Marketers are tasked with delivering increasingly personalized experiences to satisfy consumer appetite, but not at the expense of data privacy. Here’s how to cope.

Thursday: Give HubSpot’s Ultimate List of Email Spam Trigger Words a good hard look.

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The Conversation

Taryn asked, “Anyone know of any social media mgmt platforms that pull @mentions into any kind of inbox?”

Janie asked, “Is anyone else seeing a discrepancy in their analytics on Facebook vs. what they see in Sprout/social media analytical platform?”

Monica asked, “How do you track out of all the calls booked on your site, i.e. if any came from blog content?”

Heather asked, “Threads users — any insight into how virality/the algorithm are working over there?”

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Pocket Stats

Here’s what we learned about The Daily Carnage community this week:

  • 48% of marketers use Google Docs as their primary word processor, while 44% use Microsoft Word.
  • Talk about cold: 35% of marketers do NOT use data-enrichment tools to optimize their cold calling strategy.
  • Just 12% of marketers are currently using a consumer data platform (CDP), but 21% report that they’re looking into adopting the tool ahead of cookie deprecation.

Sparkling Raspberry Mimosa

Ingredients

  • 4 oz chilled Prosecco, sparkling wine, or Brut Champagne
  • 2 oz Raspberry Lemonade
  • 6-8 fresh raspberries sprinkled with sugar

Steps

  1. Pour 4 oz of sparkling wine into a champagne flute, about 2/3 full.
  2. Pour about 2 oz of raspberry lemonade in the glass, almost to the top of the glass.
  3. Top the glass with about 6-8 fresh sugared raspberries.

Recipe by We’re The Joneses

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Did Ya Know?

Answer: Proctor & Gamble.

P&G’s iconic “Thank You, Mom” campaign was led by Wieden+Kennedy and launched in 2010 for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. It would be the brand’s most successful global campaign, amassing over 74 million views and 370 million Twitter interactions.

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