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🛒 YouTube expands Shopify partnership with new shopping features and Chrome extension.

📣 Spotify unveils new features for its Megaphone platform.

📺 Study: Ad engagement improves when kids and parents watch together.

⚠️ Audience Recommendations disappeared from insight tabs. Google is working on the issue.

🌿 Report: 71% of students want their back-to-school purchases to be eco-friendly.

🔗 YouTube is now bringing QR codes to all channels.

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Solo Stove is lighting up with official smokesman Snoop Dogg for a second time, following a campaign last November that was initially lauded as original but subsequently criticized after it ultimately failed to lift sales.

This time, Snoop and Warren G share a “blunt session” in a campaign that will feature placements on Amazon’s Thursday Night Football, NFL Sunday Ticket, and “The Voice.”

Snoop shares some “blunt marketing” truths: this is an ad, you should buy the product, and you’re more likely to buy it because Snoop is telling you to. Cue the dollar-sign sounds.

We love that the brand is doubling down and optimizing instead of throwing out a fire idea.