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Social Media Examiner

Writing Winning LinkedIn Content, Without AI

Struggling to get traction on LinkedIn despite posting consistently? Wondering what separates content that stops the scroll from posts that actually get shared?

Social Media Today

YouTube highlights brand partnerships with sports creators

The platform’s latest report examined the rising influence of athletic influencers and offered guidance on how to connect with them.

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 16, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

Search Engine Roundtable

Apple Maps Ads Bans Home Service Businesses With Updated Terms

Apple has posted new Apple Maps policies where it now says it is prohibiting home services, such as plumbing, electrical, locksmith, HVAC, pest control, roofing, or general contracting services.

Journal of Consumer Research Advance Access

Invisible Rankings: When Do Consumers Assume Best-to-Worst Ordinality When Choosing from an Unnumbered List?

AbstractConsumers frequently use lists that were created by marketers, experts, or media platforms, such as a list of favorite restaurants.

ON-DEMAND TRAINING

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.

American Marketing Association

Influencer Marketing

The training offers practical insights from multiple perspectives, including direct creator experiences and case studies. Develop practical skills in crafting compelling marketing briefs, measuring campaign impact, and navigating emerging technologies like AI in the influencer marketing landscape.

Digiday

Stagwell is building its own AI media curation marketplace

The challenger holdco is developing an AI-powered pool of curated ad inventory for clients. Here’s how it’s supposed to work.

Chief Marketer

Convincing Cat Parents To Buy A $600 Litter Box

Most brands worry about competitors. Whisker is worried about complacency – specifically, the millions of cat owners who have decided that scooping an open box of poop in their home is just one of life’s little chores.

Adweek

Arthur Sadoun on AI Pitch Promises, Sapient’s Slowdown, and John Wren

The Publicis CEO says it's taking a ‘polar opposite’ approach to its peers.

Adweek

Uber’s Top Ad Exec Kristi Argyilan Joins The Trade Desk as Chief Commercial Officer

The Trade Desk has appointed Kristi Argyilan as its new chief commercial officer. Argyilan, an advertising and commerce industry veteran, joins the popular demand-side platform from Uber, where she helmed […]

Seth Godin Marketing

Two kinds of word salad

The right words in the right sequence create information. Ideas that change our world. The first kind of word salad allows the writer to hide. Fancy words, carefully juxtaposed, saying nothing.

Chief Marketer

This Marketing Consultancy Deciphers Consumers’ Brand Associations – And Doesn’t Believe In Segmentation

Marketing consultancy Triggers might know what you’re thinking better than you do. It sounds creepy, but as far as tech platforms go, Triggers has one of the less invasive methods of understanding how consumers think and feel about brands.

The Ahrefs Blog

The Free Tools SEO Strategy: How to Rank With Calculators, Converters, and Generators

That’s the free-tools SEO strategy: instead of writing another guide, you build a small, genuinely useful tool, put it on a page, and let it rank for a query that has huge demand and almost no good competition. Done right,…Read more ›