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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Adweek

Creatives React: Instacart’s Message Gets Muddled in its Star-Studded Spectacle

Marketing Week

Remote working, supermarket shopping, trust: 5 interesting stats to start your week

We arm you with all the stats you need to tackle the week ahead.Source

Adweek

ADWEEK’s Picks for the 5 Worst Ads of Super Bowl 60

Of course, one viewer’s clunker of an ad might bring another to tears—so here’s a reminder that these are the editors’ picks alone.

Digiday

Media Buying Briefing: Why is Wall Street punishing Publicis – and maybe other holdcos?

Is it possible that Wall Street doesn't understand the value of a holding company anymore – or at least is missing the intangibles?

Marketing Dive

Amazon enables communication between ads platform and AI agents

The Amazon Ads MCP Server acts as a translation layer between AI agents and the Amazon Ads API to turn simple prompts into structured campaigns.

ON-DEMAND TRAINING

American Marketing Association

Brand Strategy 101

Learn how brand commitment, brand voice, design and implementation create the impactful brand strategy you need.

American Marketing Association

Introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This introductory training provides a foundational understanding of search engine optimization and its impact on content visibility.

Social Media Today

Meta’s Recurring Marketing Messages API Will End This Week

The change will impact those who have complex follow-up messaging flows that link into Meta’s systems

Social Media Today

Snapchat Adds AR Effects for Super Bowl LX

A range of ways for Snapchatters to engage with the game.

Marketing Dive

Edward Jones’ brand chief on marketing wealth management via sports, ads

Chief Brand, Experience and Marketing Officer Hema Widhani discusses the firm’s recent ad campaign and college football partnership.

CMSWire

AI Agents Are Leaving the Chat Window—and CX Leaders Are on the Hook

Davos made clear that conversational AI is becoming ambient, persistent and experience-defining, not just another digital channel.Continue reading...

Fortune

OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Bowl ad clash signals we’ve entered AI’s trash talk era—and the race to own AI agents is only...

From Super Bowl ads to social media sniping, the rivalry has spilled beyond benchmarks into a fight over brand, trust, and who AI agent marketshare

Marketing Week

Marketers unknowingly kill great ideas through risk aversion, here’s how to stop it

Despite evidence that creativity is the defining factor in ad effectiveness, risk aversion can kill creative ideas that could be genuinely transformative.

Search Engine Roundtable