Updated displays and notes offer easy access to information and new benchmarking features provide...
Updated displays and notes offer easy access to information and new benchmarking features provide...
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Thursday, August 13, 2026
 
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Social Media Today
Google Ad and Analytics add more AI tools
Updated displays and notes offer easy access to information and new benchmarking features provide performance insights.
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Hubspot
AI search performance KPIs every marketer should track
As long as I’ve been in marketing, people have warned against focusing on “vanity metrics,” or those flashy, high numbers that don’t translate to real results or profit.
 
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Social Media Today
Snapchat ads pharma ad disclaimer links
Promotions will support multi-CTA attachments and allow health brands to include important safety notes in the app’s in-feed display.
 
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Digiday
Future of TV Briefing: In TV ad market’s swing to streaming, cheap inventory is in demand
This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how TV and streaming companies’ advertising businesses fared in the second quarter of 2026.
 
Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: August 12, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Google has amended its lawsuit against SerpApi...
 
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Merchant Center Performance Reporting Update Coming August 24th
Google announced several new updates to the Merchant Center performance report, starting on August 24, 2026.
 
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Adweek
Marketing Vanguard at Cannes: How IBM Became Its Own AI Case Study ft. Jonathan Adashek
Are marketers making a fatal mistake by treating AI as just a cost-cutting tool?
 
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Adweek
How Burger King Drank Wendy’s Milk Shake
Burger King ignored positioning, product, place, and price, all while promotion did the work. And then, Burger King stepped back, got it together, and kept it there.
 
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Marketing Dive
Dove’s marketing mixes sports and style for US Open sponsorship return
The brand is working with fashion photographers to capture trendy tournament looks that do not show white streaks from deodorant.
 
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Digiday
Lifestyle brand Stanley 1913 adapts its marketing for the AI search era
The marketing it was doing worked well, but only for a human audience. The brand needed different approaches to ensure it was picked up by the AI platforms.
 
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CMSWire
The Infrastructure Behind AI ROI: Why Agentic AI Demands Composable Architecture
New enterprise technology research ties measurable AI returns directly to how open and modular a company's systems are.Continue reading...
 
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CMSWire
12,000 People Came to Vegas to Talk About Something Invisible
Ai4 2026's record turnout for AI arrives just as the term itself starts disappearing from everyday language.Continue reading...
 
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UX Foundations for Marketers
Selected by American Marketing Association
UX Foundations for Marketers

Your digital campaigns are only as effective as the experiences behind them. This two-part series bridges the gap between marketing strategy and user experience design, giving digital marketers the knowledge, frameworks, and practical skills to directly influence the digital experiences that drive engagement, conversions, and ROI.

Across both sessions, you will move from understanding the fundamentals of UX and how they connect to marketing performance, to applying design thinking and accessibility standards to the real digital challenges you face every day. Whether you are collaborating with a design team, briefing an agency, or evaluating your own digital properties, this series will sharpen how you think about and advocate for the end user at every stage.

 
Transform Your Marketing with AI
Selected by American Marketing Association
Transform Your Marketing with AI: Hands-On Workshop Series

There is a meaningful difference between understanding AI tools and having a workflow built around them. Transform your marketing approach with practical AI skills in this hands-on workshop series.

This four-week series is designed to get you to the second. Across four live sessions, you will use ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and others to build an actual marketing strategy, produce on-brand content, and set up performance reporting designed for your real work.