🌸 Inside the social media frenzy around “The Summer I Turned Pretty.”

👥 Reddit replaces member count with “visitors” and “contributions.”

🤖 OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn.

🤝 Netflix turns to Amazon to make its ads easier to buy.

🚗 Ford gets a new tagline: Ready Set Ford.

🏛️ This museum exhibit on AI prompts hard questions.

🐇 Rabbit R1 wants a second chance with the new RabbitOS 2 update.

🍤 No more all-you-can-eat at Red Lobster. This year, it’s SpendLESS Shrimp.

Reddit has over 400 million weekly active users across thousands of niche communities. The Reddit Pixel offers a cost-effective alternative to retarget high-intent visitors and drive conversions.

Retargeting ads differ from standard Reddit campaigns because they focus on “warm” audiences—users who have already shown interest—rather than cold prospects. This enables more personalized, direct messaging designed to nudge users toward actions like demo requests or content downloads.

Here’s how to build an effective Reddit retargeting strategy:

1. Install the Reddit Pixel: Manually on your website or via Google Tag Manager.
2. Verify and test: Use the Reddit Pixel Helper to ensure proper setup and no duplicate tracking.
3. Configure conversion events: Track leads, downloads, demo requests, and other mid- or bottom-funnel actions.
4. Build custom audiences: Segment by page visits, content engagement, abandoned forms, or high-intent actions.
5. Launch retargeting ads: Optimize for conversions with authentic messaging that aligns with Reddit’s community culture.

This allows you to nurture prospects through long sales cycles, lower cost-per-lead, and maximize return on ad spend.

Seedream 4.0 is ByteDance’s advanced AI model for image generation and editing.

Early benchmarks suggest that it outperforms Google’s Gemini in areas like prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics.

It combines text-to-image generation and image editing into a single model, generates image up to 4k resolution, and delivers 2k images in 1.8 seconds.

Plus, you can use up to 6 reference images at simultaneously and generate 9 images at once. If that’s your thing, of course.

You want a BlueMoonGarnish with that?

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Blue Moon has renamed the orange slice to the “BlueMoonGarnish.” Because they can, that’s why.

Partnering with Mischief @ No Fixed Address, they also rebranded Chicago and Boston’s Orange Line transit routes as the “BlueMoonGarnish Line” and they’re giving away custom-stamped oranges with Blue Moon orders in multiple cities.

The campaign extends to in-person events, social media, and even a tongue-in-cheek video tour of a fictional BlueMoonGarnish farm.