Be in The Know
⛔ Australia to ban social media for kids under 16.
🥜 Duolingo, Nutter Butter, Scrub Daddy… should brands be so online?
🧼 Liquid Death and Dr. Squatch made soap for a key demographic: “psychos.”
📈 Google Analytics launches data access monitoring tools for security control.
👀 Forrester predicts less brand safety, more SEO spend in 2025.
📺 Study: TV advertising can drive web traffic for first-time advertisers.
🚀 Instagram expands boosting to include more post types.
📰 NYT tech workers make their own games while on strike.
🍔 It’s the most Whopper-ful time of the year. BK has an advent calendar.
LinkedIn Video Posts Generate 3x More Reach
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Recent data suggests that video posts on LinkedIn outperform text posts in reach and impressions.
In fact, low-performing videos still garnered nearly three times the impressions of high performing text posts. Are you doing video yet?
According to the research…
- Videos under 5 minutes performed best.
- Direct-to-camera style was effective.
- Posting between 9-11 a.m. EST saw optimal engagement.
- Adding personal touches, such as sound effects and captions, increased appeal.
When to use video…
- Video is ideal for top-of-funnel awareness; text posts perform better in driving deeper engagement with an established audience.
- Text posts receive targeted distribution to connections, while videos can reach beyond your network.
Take a closer look at the 90-day study at Search Engine Journal.
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Sincerely Karen
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Well, it was probably inevitable that someone made a Karen AI.
You can vent to Karen about a faulty product or terrible service, give it the offending company name, and upload a picture for it to analyze or simply list a few grievances, and it’ll start fuming.
Sincerely Karen generates a well-written complaint, which you can send off right away or simply use as a cathartic exercise. There’s even a classy mode to moderate tone.
(Sorry to our 87 subscribers named Karen.)
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Pocket Change
On average, women’s jeans pockets are 48% smaller than men’s.
Honestly, they’re barely functional. You can fit your ALDI quarter, but definitely not your smartphone. In 2024.
So, Payconiq, a mobile payment brand, has partnered with Belgium clothing brand Paradox to make “Equal Pocket Denim” jeans, so your drip is finally as free as your financial autonomy.
The unisex jeans feature one men’s pocket (embroidered “future”)—fit for a smartphone—and one women’s pocket (embroidered “past”).
Paradox is hip enough to make even a financial logo and slogan look cool on a garment.
