📺 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.

Catch up on Season 2 of The Daily Carnage Show:

• 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 2.7 Discussion: “What are your thoughts about Spirit 2.0, the crowdfunded effort to purchase Spirit Airlines? Can the Green Bay Packers model be applied to a brand like Spirit? Will Spirit 2.0 change how we think about the end of brands we love?”

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