Be in The Know
🥾 L.L. Bean is going dark on social for Mental Health Awareness Month for the third year in a row.
🤫 TikTok appears to be circumnavigating Apple App Store commissions for some users.
🎧 After pressure from fans, Lincoln released the background music to its Nautilus campaign on streaming platforms.
🚩 Tiger Woods’ “athluxury” brand, Sun Day Red, is here.
❤️ Here’s what Instagram is (finally) doing to address unoriginal content and aggregator accounts.
🧠 Infographic: These are the fastest-growing skills in marketing, according to LinkedIn.
⏸️ Google Ads will automatically pause low-activity keywords in June.
Reading List: Books About Marketing
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Add something chewy to your TBR pile this year. These are Marketer Milk’s most recommended books about marketing:
- Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins (1923)
- Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene M. Schwartz (1966)
- The Copy Book: How Some of the Best Advertising Writers in the World Write Their Advertising (2018)
- Play Bigger by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, Christopher Lochhead, and Kevin Maney (2016)
- Content Design by Sarah Richards (2017)
- The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino (1968)
- Epic Content Marketing by Joe Pulizzi (2013)
- How to Launch a Brand by Fabian Geyrhalter (2013)
- Dotcom Secrets by Russell Brunson (2020)
- Read Me by Gyles Lingwood and Roger Horberry (2014)
- Building a StoryBrand by Donald Miller (2017)
- This is Marketing by Seth Godin (2018)
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal (2014)
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries and Jack Trout (1994)
- Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown (2017)
Check out the full list at Marketer Milk.
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Don’t Ya Wanta?
One of the undeniable soundtracks to the aughts is the delicious earworm jingle “Wanta Fanta.” And thanks to marketers, everything good comes back around.
The Fanta anthem has gotten a refresh in new :30 and :60 spots designed to convert Gen Z consumers looking to treat themselves. Look out for lots of UGC under #Wanta? on TikTok.
