🎬 Watch Robert Redford’s most memorable ads.

📜 Google Ads provides text guidelines for AI assets.

🔎 ChatGPT search update focuses on quality, shopping, format.

☕ Starbucks will add hundreds of thousands of seats back to stores.

🎮 Brands turn to Discord servers to reach niche influencer channels.

🦉 Duolingo scores are coming to LinkedIn.

🗣️ Babbel introduces a new AI voice trainer.

Friday, September 19th is your last chance to save $100 on tickets to Digital Summit Philadelphia, taking place September 30 – October 1 at the Philadelphia Convention Center.

We need to touch grass. The digital world is our world (and we love it), but it’s not enough. The data is clear: in-person events are crucial for marketing leaders to reset and get ahead right now.

Speakers provide the inspiration and the conversations you have will drive your next big idea.

Headliners include Digital Prophet Shingy on reimagining AI’s role in marketing and local leaders—Wil Reynolds of Seer Interactive, Visit Philadelphia’s Neil Frauenglass, and Lincoln Financial Group on brand trust—alongside sessions from Google, Disney, and more.

Carnies get an extra 20% off tickets to any Digital Summit, use code CARNEY20 at checkout.

Brands Like These is a curated online marketplace where you can buy and sell ready-to-launch brand kits made by real human designers.

For designers, it’s a way to turn unused or self-initiated projects into real income. No clients, no revisions (!), no gatekeepers.

And for buyers, it’s a shortcut to standout branding without the long pitch process or costly delays.

Avril Lavigne has gone ahead and made things so Complicated… a limited-edition Pinot Noir with California-based Banshee Wines.

The small-batch red is light and velvety, with bright cherry and raspberry notes.

If you miss the bottle, chill oout… fans can snag one of 50 “Sip and Spin” kits, complete with a record player and her Let Go album on vinyl, designed to pair music with the pour.

Banshee is also donating $10,000 to She Is The Music, a nonprofit empowering women in the industry.