▶️ YouTube is changing how it counts views.

🤖 OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens.

🧴 Hayden Panettiere’s death sparks renewed backlash against Neutrogena.

🧵 From Uniqlo to Zara, clothing brands try to win over Gen Z with a needle and thread.

✈️ Google just bought a bunch of Spirit Airlines data for AI training.

If you’re judging creator campaigns by likes and comments, you might be measuring the wrong thing.

A new Kantar report analyzed more than 15,000 sponsored creator posts across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube and found that platform engagement aligned with brand-building potential only about one-third of the time.

Among highly engaged posts, fewer than 1 in 5 showed strong potential to build a brand, while only about 1 in 8 showed strong potential for short-term sales.

So what should we be looking for?

• Brand mentions: Creators saying the brand name produced a 22-point lift in brand impact.
• Product interaction: Showing or using the product lifted both brand and sales power.
• Product benefits: Explaining why the product matters can be more valuable than simply generating engagement.
• Creative fit: The best creator strategy depends on the campaign goal, not just the creator’s audience size.

Essentially, viral doesn’t necessarily mean valuable.

Get the full scoop at Net Influencer.

Google Analytics can be a little overwhelming.

Tiny Funnel shows you exactly where visitors came from, where they went, and how many ultimately converted. Simple.

The cookie-less analytics tool lets you build funnels around page visits, clicks, page states, or server-side events, then see drop-offs and individual visitor journeys in one view.

There’s no event code required for basic tracking.

Don’t miss the latest episode of The Daily Carnage Show to dive into the dark patterns that have been a UX and marketing problem for years. Now, they’re increasingly becoming a legal one.

In this episode of The Daily Carnage Show, we’re looking at Meta’s growing legal scrutiny over the design of Facebook and Instagram—and what it could mean for marketers, UX designers, and anyone building digital products.

We break down what deceptive design and “dark patterns” actually are, including manipulative defaults, difficult cancellation flows, buried information, infinite scroll, autoplay, and other design choices that can steer users toward decisions they might not otherwise make.

We’ll also look at the bigger question behind the current litigation: When does persuasion become manipulation, and when can a company become legally responsible for the way its product is designed?

🎙️ Plus, catch up on Season 2:

• Dissecting the Brand Apology (11:35)
• Instagram’s Controversial New Logo (10:34)
• Google Image Search is… Pinterest? (9:26)
• Sony & The Death of Physical Media (8:57)
• Brand vs. Planet: The Marketer’s AI Footprint (12:14)
• The Future of Google Search (9:56)
• GLP-1s are Disrupting Every Sector (9:56)
• Transgressive OOH (18:45)
• Your Brain on AI (12:33)
• Ethics in the AI Era (18:33)

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

Let’s take this party outside of the inbox, Carnies!

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Who better to address the increasing power consumption of AI data centers than… Jason Kelce?

He’s teamed up with Garage Beer for a ridiculous pitch involving beer, electricity, and urine.

Data centers need enormous amounts of water for cooling, and instead of treating that as another dry sustainability statistic, Garage Beer suggests that Americans “donate” their pee to help cool AI infrastructure.

Heinz, 1935