Be in The Know
✨ A recap from Possible 2026.
🍪 OpenAI enables cookies by default for free ChatGPT users.
📱 New app Divine hopes to recapture the magic of Vine.
🧭 Ask.com shuts down after over 25 years.
📉 IG accounts that regularly repost unoriginal content will no longer be eligible for recommendations.
🏳️🌈 What Heated Rivalry reveals about LGBTQ+ media and marketing.
💖 Claire’s is reclaiming girlhood.
Ep #2.6: Major Platform Updates (April 2026)
On this episode of The Daily Carnage Show, we’re recapping social platform updates from April that turn ads into conversations, search into chat, and quietly reshape where content actually lives:
- Instagram launches Instants, an app to rival Snachat, as messaging continues to dominate social. Will users migrate?
- TikTok now lets creators suggest relevant keywords for clips, representing an opportunity to shape your own metadata on a platform that is increasingly used as a search engine.
- YouTube tests comprehensive AI responses to search queries with “Ask YouTube.” Will it cannibalize views from creators?
- Snapchat announces AI Sponsored Snaps, allowing brands to reach users in chat through AI agents.
- LinkedIn finally allows off-platform Event Ads, which means you won’t have to create a LinkedIn event to employ them. Hallelujah.
🎙️ Don’t miss “Major Platform Updates: April 2026” (8:17), now streaming on:
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Soft The Rainbow
Chat, another surreal Skittles ad just dropped.
Skittles was unhinged before anyone was unhinged, and they’re leaning into the unsettling humor in a new campaign to support their Gummies product, highlighting… softness.
There are teens inside a human-kangaroo pouch, a man receiving a jellyfish massage, et cetera, and it’s all distinctly Skittles.
Notably, they’ve opted for practical effects like real puppetry, prosthetics, and physical sets, and all that realism draws the absurdity into stark relief.
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Weigh in on The Daily Carnage Subreddit:
- The Daily Carnage Show Ep 2.6 Discussion: “Which major social platform updates from this spring are you most excited (or skeptical) about? Which of these features are you likely to test?”
- B2B lead gen and data enrichment tools: “Our team has just had an abysmal experience with Seamless.ai and we’re interested in exploring competitor. Do you have a tool you’d recommend?”
- Using LinkedIn’s Post Inspector to Reset Cached Meta Data and Images: “LinkedIn will sometimes stubbornly associate an out of date featured image with a URL from your website. Here’s a super simple fix.”
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