TECH

📰 Top Stories roll out in Google AI Overviews.

🤖 Salesforce’s woes underline marketing’s agentic AI problems.

📄 Opinion: The Pageview Era is dead.

🎵 Instagram rolls out tool to swap music on published posts.

TRENDS

🫠 Meet the 9 new emoji to help sum up 2026.

🛍️ Viral dopamine sites let users shop without buying anything.

BRANDS

🔥 Hanes embraces risqué marketing in creative shakeup.

📚 Bookshop.org reinvented itself for post-pandemic survival. It worked.

🥬 Taylor Farms highlighted an FDA mistake. PR veterans say it muddied the message.

🍕 The Pizza Hut x Dinner Service nostalgic streetwear is fire.

🍔 Burger King is turning things around with a Whopper Guarantee.

🐐 Michelob Ultra tallies Lionel Messi’s 20-year World Cup legacy.

Monday: As you know, social media rewards speed, trends, and hooks. But content that creates lasting impact gives people a little more substance. Every post should be both relevant to the moment and genuinely valuable to the audience. Here’s how to really move people on social.

Tuesday: On YouTube, creator content behaves like a long-term marketing asset, generating views, clicks, searches, and purchases long after your initial campaign ends. YouTube’s search-first ecosystem gives branded creator content a much longer shelf life than feed-based platforms. Videos continue to surface whenever viewers search for relevant topics, products, or reviews. Here’s the data, according to Google.

Wednesday: Dashboards don’t always tell the truth. PPC reporting can create a false sense of success by emphasizing vanity metrics, cherry-picking comparisons, or stripping away relevant context. Focus on questions executives actually care about.

Thursday: New research from Socialinsider, based on an analysis of 6 million Reels published during the first half of 2026, suggests the sweet spot for both engagement and views is 45 to 60 seconds. Here’s the golden strategy.

Don’t miss the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show, “Brand vs. Planet: The Marketer’s AI Footprint,” to learn more about the energy, water, land, and infrastructure costs behind the tech that powers your whole stack.

🎙️ Plus, catch up on Season 2:

• Our Picks for the 2026 Titanium Lions (13:06)
• Silent Spring: Is Rainbox Capitalism Dead? (11:41)
• The Future of Google Search (9:56)
• 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)

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