This week on The Daily Carnage Show, Shannon unpacks:

• 🚀 Katy Perry’s controversial trip to space and how Wendy’s threw rocket fuel on the fire.
• 💔 Pros and cons of a potential Google breakup, plus the Chrome cookie policy reversal.
• 🐰 Inaugural Easter Egg sponsorships at the White House.
• 👀 Fiverr’s uncomfy AI campaign and Ghost homage.
• 🤦‍♀️ Welch’s absolutely bananas AI generator for lunchbox notes… and more.

✂️ Instagram’s video editing app, Edits, is here.

⚖️  The U.S. Justice Department is about to make its case for a Google breakup. Here’s what to know.

📈  CPC inflation: How fast are Google Ads costs rising?

🛒 OpenAI may be preparing to add Shopify to ChatGPT.

💸 Some wiggle room: Most consumers will pay 25% more for their favorite brands.

👖 Food goes fashion: Cheetos Pants and Heinz grillz.

💸 How “recessionposting” is reshaping social content.

💡 Infographic: 7 posts in 7 days to boost your LinkedIn engagement.

✅ Bluesky rolls out blue checks for organizations and notable users.

👀 Perplexity wants to buy Chrome if Google has to sell it.

🐟 The story behind that Bon Iver canned salmon.

🎂 The New Yorker at 100: how bold, illustrated, wordless covers helped define the mag.

Monday: The 2025 State of Video Report reveals businesses are investing more in video and moving production in-house by using AI for scripting, editing, and captioning. Here are the key insights and top video trends.

• 💡 According to our poll, 34% of marketers produce at least 1 video per week, while 31% produce 2 to 4 videos weekly, 29% produce more than 5, and 6% produce none.

Tuesday: According to Emplifi’s 2025 “The Social Pulse” report, nearly half of U.S. consumers made a purchase via social media in the past 90 days. Promotional offers (60%) were the top driver, followed by active product searches (51%), visually appealing posts (35%), relatable content (28%), and humor (25%). So, what does that mean for marketers?

Wednesday: Digital products focus only on “happy paths,” neglecting what happens when things go wrong. As Amy Hupe points out, error messages are a vital but often overlooked part of UX. Poor error messages can leave users frustrated, confused, or even drive them away. Here’s how to create better error messages.

• 💡 According to our poll, 77% of marketers love a quirky 404 message.

Thursday: A new study published in MIS Quarterly flips old assumptions on their head: distracted consumers might actually be ideal ad targets. Researchers found that in dynamic, real-life environments—like playing a game while watching TV—people’s mental engagement can spill over, making them more likely to notice and recall pop-up ads. Based on the findings, here’s how you can activate this insight.

Can you solve this puzzle? 🌈

Claire posted: “Has anyone figured out how to get Instagram accounts started from the corporate end, then hand it over to the franchise owner?”

Sydney posted: “Who has experience leading a successful app download campaign for your existing customer base? What were your most effective tactics?”

Kaylan posted: “What are we doing for lead collection at conferences nowadays?”

Yvonne posted: “It used to be that I could link from our public library website to our FB page so that our patrons could see the FB page without being logged into FB. Is that not a thing anymore?”

Taryn posted: “What Google ads courses/training videos do you recommend?”

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