🧠 OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome.

🎾 Wimbledon’s electronic line-calling system shows we still can’t replace human judgment.

🚫 Up to three-year ban for future Cannes Lions cheaters.

📉 YouTube is ditching Trending to get niche with Charts.

👨‍👩‍👧 Study: Parents want ads that reflect their emotional experience as a parent.

Marketers are navigating a storm of economic uncertainty, AI disruption, and changing audience behaviors. But we’re watching, testing, and adapting… fast.

Here are 7 standout stats from H1 2025:

• 📺 $72.4B in digital video ad spend (↑14%)
• 🧠 71% of marketers will invest $10M+ in AI
• 📱 59% plan more influencer partnerships
• 📉 42% of consumers are delaying big purchases
• 🎯 Only 15% of CMOs plan beyond three years
• 🧒 Gen Alpha has $28B in direct spending power
• 🔍 41% of Gen Z uses social as their first search source

Head to Marketing Dive for a closer look at the numbers.

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Mischief @ No Fixed Address debuts its first campaign for 7-Eleven: “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” directed by Pete Marquis of Good Behavior.

The spot features a household of goths that gets turned upside down on Slurpee Day when the daughter rebels… with all things colorful, joyful, and sugary.

The campaign was supported by “Tongue-toos.” Nice touch.