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

🤝 TikTok launches collaborative Shared Feed options.

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

🚫 Google denies ads are coming to Gemini in 2026.

🏳️‍🌈 Listen: What brands get wrong about queer audiences.

🎮 Sony celebrates 30 years of PlayStation with photographer Benedict Redgrove.

LinkedIn has introduced some new ad options to make scaling personalized creative and boosting awareness easier, more efficient, and measurable.

Here’s what’s new:

• Reserved ads: Premium placement in the first ad slot of LinkedIn feeds for predictable impressions, high attention, and stronger brand recall. Formats include Video Ads, Thought Leader Ads, Single Image Ads, and Document Ads.
• Ad personalization: Tailor messages dynamically using profile-based macros such as first name, job title, industry, or company name. Personalized ads are more relevant, increasing engagement.
• AI-Powered creative tools: AI Ad Variants automatically generate multiple creative versions from a single headline or intro.
• Flexible ad creation (early 2026): Lets you upload multiple images, videos, and copy variations, with LinkedIn automatically optimizing combinations and shifting budgets toward top performers.

Head to LinkedIn for Marketing to get the full scoop.

Cal ID is a free-forever, cloud‑based scheduling platform for appointments, meetings, and calendar coordination.

It offers unlimited event types and booking links without premium tiers, and it syncs with Google Calendar, Outlook, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc.

There’s also payment integration support.

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First, the Alex + Ani Polly Pocket collection. Now, this.

Brilliant Earth has launched a limited-edition capsule collection with Ring Pop, in which the colorful candies are reimagined as oversized gemstones set in 14-karat gold, hidden halo settings.

Y2K euphoria. It really takes you back to when your favorite flavor of anything was simply “blue.”