Be in The Know
🤔 How marketers plan to navigate the “Muskification” of social media.
⁉️ Related: Zuckerberg takes to Threads to answer questions about Meta’s moderation shift.
🍋 TikTok promotes Lemon8 in the US as ban looms.
🤖 From CES: The next phase of consumer interaction with AI technology will move far beyond chatbots.
💡 The year in data: What 2024’s key stats mean for marketers in 2025.
🎲 Peacock is testing mini-games and vertical videos to boost engagement.
⏩ YouTube is testing another tool that helps creators turn long-form content into Shorts.
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Got That Dawg in Me
Mug Root Beer has earned a bit of a cult following in recent history.
Now, they’re selling custom DNA kits to help fans find out if they “got that dawg” in them (results range from 30 to 110%).
The kit, which drops this Friday, comes with a can of Mug, a “dog drool” dropper, a test card, and a real canine DNA testing kit for funsies ($90 value!).
The campaign was kicked off by a genuinely hilarious social video, “Genes with Gene,” which riffs off of “Finding Your Roots.”
In a business-as-usual move by Mug, the first 200 to make the required Mug purchase through TikTok Shop will get free test kits.