Be in The Know
🤖 What to expect from Google I/O 2026.
🪩 Don’t worry, the much maligned Spotify Disco Ball logo will go away next week.
💼 LinkedIn bets on Creator Events to compete with YouTube and Patreon.
📺 YouTube adds chapters and title cards for CTV viewers.
☕️ Starbucks and Strava collab on a high-protein coffee, a weighted vest, and a walking challenge.
GLP-1s are Disrupting Every Sector
GLP-1s are disrupting consumer demand and behavior at a biological level, leading to booms in some sectors and busts in others.
In the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show, Shannon breaks down how grocery, restaurants, CPG, retail, beauty, pharma, and even airlines are affected in predictable and surprising ways.
Plus, how does the current protein trend tie into the GLP-1 wave?
🎙️ Don’t miss “GLP-1s are Disrupting Every Sector” (9:57), now streaming on:
Q for You
Has the GLP-1 wave affected your sector?
Microsoft Clarity
Microsoft Clarity lets you watch real user sessions unfold in real time.
Its heatmaps reveal where users are focusing attention and where they completely lose interest. Session recordings expose friction points that are eating into conversions.
New automated summaries and conversational insights can surface patterns without requiring hours of manual analysis, too.
And it’s completely free, forever. No traffic caps.
Now Streaming
Don’t miss the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show, “The Future of Google Search,” to learn more about Google’s plans to replace the search box with 24/7 AI-powered information agents and interactive “Generative UI” that builds mini-apps and custom widgets directly on your results page.
What does that mean for advertising, for SEO, for the Internet as we know it?
Plus, catch up on Season 2:
- GLP-1s are Disrupting Every Sector (9:56)
- Spirit Airlines 2.0: Will it Fly? (11:08)
- Major Platform Updates (8:17)
- Nike Runs into Controversy (12:19)
- Transgressive OOH (18:45)
- Your Brain on AI (12:33)
- Meta, McDonald’s Mukbang, and The OpenAI Mess (14:41)
- Ethics in the AI Era (18:33)
🎙️ Now streaming on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Apple Music.
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Glow The Distance
Everyone’s looking for the glowiest serum or skincare routine right now. But have you tried a pair of sneakers?
ASICS’ new “Get The Glow” campaign argues that movement is the best glow recipe.
The work features people immediately after workouts, with flushed faces, sweat, messy hair, and all.
The strategy edges ASICS beyond performance apparel into the broader wellness conversation.
Ads from The Past
Sony, 1987
