Be in The Know
🎃 Happy pumpkin spice season to our Carnies that celebrate.
🤔 Ford and Lowe’s join other big companies in backing off DEI policies.
👍 Opinion: What social media managers need most isn’t advice—it’s validation.
💡 Adobe’s new Workfront Planning connects upfront campaign planning with record creation and work execution.
🌙 Meta is shutting down its Spark AR Studio platform.
❗ Yelp sues Google, alleging a search engine monopoly.
🍕 Pizza Hut’s Moving Day Table box is almost worth lifting your friend’s futon.
New Google Features for Retailers Ahead of The Holidays
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This year, Black Friday falls five days later than last year, meaning the window between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is the shortest it’s been in recent history. Google is helping retailers navigate the compressed 2024 holiday shopping season in 4 key ways:
- Shopping Trends: Google’s Merchant Center now offers insights into popular shopping queries. This allows retailers to capitalize on viral trends, make informed inventory decisions, and optimize product descriptions to match what consumers are searching for.
- AI Insights: The updated Merchant Center includes generative AI-powered summaries and custom reports. Retailers can quickly access performance insights, like product trends, and generate tailored reports without manual effort.
- Automated In-Store Availability Sync: A new feature automates the synchronization of in-store product availability with shopping ads. This streamlines local inventory management, ensuring customers see accurate product availability in real time.
- Goals in Google Ads: Google Ads has introduced new tools to help retailers attract customers faster. This includes setting new customer acquisition goals and optimizing ads for profit with cart-level conversions, enabling more precise targeting during the holiday rush.
Learn more on the Google blog.
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Tools
Button Stealer
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We interrupt our invaluable coverage of cutting-edge marketing tools to offer you something useless. You deserve it!
Button Stealer is a little Chrome extension that automatically steals a button from every site you visit. It’s like collecting license plates or passport stamps or national park pins.
Let’s face it, you’re probably doing serious mileage on the WWW already. Might as well embrace it.
Classifieds
Place a Classified Ad in a Friday edition of The Daily Carnage for just $99.
What you get:
- 200 characters 📣
- An internal link 🔗
- Your ad lives on our site indefinitely 💛
Let’s get it on the calendar.
Kudos
Paying Our Respects
Liquid Death has (inevitably?) collaborated with the other brand people are absolutely feral over: Yeti.
Bidding has begun on the the Casket Cooler, a literal casket cooler engineered with Triple Foam ColdCell™ technology, a hydraulic lid piston, dual drain valves, and T-Latch Lid Locks.
It holds preserves 378 cans of Liquid Death, and it will be brought to its final resting place with white glove delivery.
The current bid is already well on its way to $20k. They get you coming and going these days, amirite?
