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Top Posts of The Week
💀 Ok, now Twitter is officially dead.
👄 Glossier used Reddit comments to promote the long awaited return of its original Balm Dot Com formula.
🧑💻 Here are 38 web design terms you should know.
🥲 Is a six-day workweek catching on?
⏲️ With feed activity in decline, Instagram is looking to extend the life of Stories.
🛒 According to retail marketers, the most important trends for 2024 are: ecommerce everywhere, TikTok, and AI.
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What We Learned
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Monday: If you want to understand which pages are the first ones people see when they visit your website, you’ll need to create a new standard report in GA4.
Tuesday: It’s been a turbulent year so far for bloggers. As Google core updates and SERP shakeups continue, it’s critical that content creators diversity their traffic sources in 2024.
Wednesday: Add these influencer marketing and social media marketing podcasts to your playlist, courtesy of Later.
Thursday: 42% of Pinterest’s global monthly user base in Gen Z, who are 1.3x more likely to shop online. Here’s how to reach them on the platform, according to Pinterest.
The Conversation
Bethany asked, “Wondering what the group’s thoughts are on non-standard business card sizes?”
Sarah asked, “Is there a way to clean a Facebook group in bulk rather than manually going through each person one by one?”
Sam asked, “Is there a WP plug-in out there that effectively auto-creates meta descriptions?”
Kate shared, “I just read in a Hootsuite blog: ‘Reels with word marks, regardless of the word mark, will be ranked lower.’ Does that mean that including a brand’s logo in the video file, even as an endcap, could depress reach?”
Pocket Stats
Here’s what we learned about The Daily Carnage community this week:
- Despite TikTok reportedly testing the format, 82% of marketers feel confident that they would NOT watch an hourlong video (60:00) on TikTok.
- Meta announced the sunsetting of its Facebook Workplace product, but 85% of marketers don’t use it and never have.
- Careful, execs. While some U.S. companies are considering a 6-day workweek, 74% of marketers report that they’d resign in response to a mandate, with 19% planning to stay and quietly decrease productivity. 4% of marketers are already putting in the extra hours.
- Of the 44% of marketers that have tested Meta’s suite of new AI text and image tools for advertisers, over half weren’t impressed with the results.
Buffalo Chicken Sliders
Ingredients
- Cooked shredded chicken
- Buffalo hot sauce
- Brioche slider rolls, sliced in half
- Provolone cheese
- Unsalted butter
- Garlic, minced
- Finely chopped flat-leaf parsley or cilantro, divided
- Slaw mix
- Chunky blue cheese dressing
Feelin’ hungry? Check out JZ Eats for recipe instructions.
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Did Ya Know?
Answer: Butterscotch.
Inspired by those dull candies rolling around at the bottom of grandma’s giant purse, the new McFlurry features a “smooth, sweet syrup with chopped candy pieces” and vanilla soft serve.
