📺 Advertisers can now reach Pinterest’s high-intent audiences on CTV.

🔍 TikTok lets users add relevant keywords to metadata.

📊 Gen Z and Millennials have better ad recall on YouTube.

🤖 ChatGPT ads have begun showing up for logged-out users.

👠 How “The Devil Wears Prada 2” designed a fashion collection of brand partners.

🍫 Godiva celebrates 100 years with an animated short.

Behind-the-scenes social content invites audiences into the process of how something is made, who is involved, and what happens before the final post goes live.

And that kind of transparency builds a lot of trust, which is increasingly valuable in a hyper-produced and polished environment.

BTS content humanizes a brand. When creators share brainstorming sessions, mistakes, or works in progress, they become more relatable. Audiences feel like insiders rather than spectators.

It also solves a practical challenge: consistency. You can turn one effort into multiple pieces of content.

Plus, informal, real-time content often aligns better with platform algorithms and user preferences, especially in short-form video.

To recap, BTS content…

• Builds trust through transparency
• Humanizes brands and creators
• Makes audiences feel included
• Increases content output efficiently
• Boosts engagement with authentic, casual formats
• Reduces pressure to be perfectly polished

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Senja is a social proof tool that collects, organizes, and showcases customer testimonials from scattered reviews, emails, and feedback.

You can import testimonials from dozens of platforms or collect new ones through customizable forms, including video testimonials that are automatically transcribed and organized.

Then, tag, filter, and analyze feedback, to find patterns in what customers actually value.

Plus, you can turn testimonials into widgets, “walls of love,” or embeddable visual assets.

Don’t miss the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show, “The Future of Google Search,” to learn more about Google’s plans to replace the search box with 24/7 AI-powered information agents and interactive “Generative UI” that builds mini-apps and custom widgets directly on your results page.

What does that mean for advertising, for SEO, for the Internet as we know it?

Plus, catch up on Season 2:

• GLP-1s are Disrupting Every Sector (9:56)
• Spirit Airlines 2.0: Will it Fly? (11:08)
• Major Platform Updates (8:17)
• Nike Runs into Controversy (12:19)
• Transgressive OOH (18:45)
• Your Brain on AI (12:33)
• Meta, McDonald’s Mukbang, and The OpenAI Mess (14:41)
• Ethics in the AI Era (18:33)

🎙️ Now streaming on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon Music, and Apple Music.

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Disney is celebrating 45 years of partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation with an entire week of magic.

“Disney Week of Wishes” is focused on granting life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses every hour of the day.

Timed around World Wish Day, it taps Disney’s global network to create hundreds of experiences for wish kids and their families.

It will include a wide range of personalized moments, from theme park visits and character meet-and-greets to experiences inspired by franchises like Mickey Mouse and Marvel superheroes.

And of course these wishes will unfold across Disney parks, cruise ships, and media platforms, with stories shared through video and social to highlight each child’s experience.

Weigh in on The Daily Carnage Subreddit:

• The Daily Carnage Show Ep 2.9 Discussion: “If AI agents become the primary interface to knowledge, what happens to the humans and businesses that knowledge originally came from? What does it mean for the internet to quietly transition from an open ecosystem of destinations into a closed ecosystem of gate-kept answers? Are we speeding toward a future where people stop visiting the web directly? If that behavior ends, we ever be able to rebuild it?”

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