CAMPAIGNS

🤪 Pine-Sol is the latest brand to go bananas on TikTok. 

👾 Commodore 64 leans into 8-bit nostalgia. (1:19 Watch)

🛒 Kroger’s new sonic logo is delightful.

CULTURE

💥 GLP-1 drugs disrupt everything from casino apps to retail and airlines.

💔 Kraft-Heinz is reportedly breaking up.

🚫 Up to three-year ban for future Cannes Lions cheaters.

TECH

🧐 ‘What WeMeant was….’ WeTransfer responds to backlash over its new terms and conditions.

🧠 OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome.

📉 YouTube is ditching Trending to get niche with Charts.

📩 Gmail rolls out robust Manage Subscriptions feature. Marketers weigh in.

Monday: Marketers are navigating a storm of economic uncertainty, AI disruption, and changing audience behaviors. But we’re watching, testing, and adapting… fast. Here are 7 standout stats from H1 2025.

Tuesday: With male users now making up over 1/3 of Pinterest’s global audience, the platform has become kind of a haven for men embracing their creativity. In response, Pinterest’s new “Pinterest Man” profile caters directly to this audience to help brands connect with male consumers who are open-minded, values-driven, and ready to shop. Here’s what men are loving on Pinterest.

Wednesday: Neurobranding focuses on how the brain truly remembers brands: through emotional and sensory experiences rather than just messages or logos. Brands are creating immersive moments that embed themselves in the nervous system, and successful marketers are functioning more like “memory architects.”

Thursday: Marketing is about understanding what makes people say yes. These 9 psychology concepts can help you do that.

Can you solve this puzzle? ⏸️

Trending in The Daily Carnage Facebook community:

“Google Ads ‘Expert’ Consultation = Total Waste of Time.”

💬 Our community of experts says…

• “Finally, after years, I took the meeting and went with her recs just to see. It ended up pausing and limiting budget on 80% of my campaigns. I was livid and wrote a scathing email and they just emailed back to get on another call. Never again.”
• “Always a scam and Google tries every trick in the book as though we are not also sales people. Even if Google’s sales pitches didn’t suck, they are wildly unfamiliar with their own policies on regulated industries.”
• “We refuse to meet with them. There has yet to be a Google person that we have met with that knows even half of what we know and do. They just tell you to raise the budget.”
• “The only value in my opinion is getting you into betas that require an account person to add it.”

📉 Puma’s brand data shows it’s not actually winning over Gen Z.

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Answer: National Insurance Nerd Day.

Seize the day! This is your semi-regular reminder to look up ridiculous holidays your brand could totally own with the right campaign.