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Social Media Today

Will Meta be found guilty of driving social media addiction?

A high-profile case in the U.S. got underway last week and the company may be on the hook for as much as $1 trillion in damages, but questions linger.

Marketing Dive

Publicis tackles fragmented NIL market with Travis Kelce, 3 Arts Sports

A new joint venture called Tekta seeks to streamline NIL marketing activations and make them more measurable for Publicis clients.

Brian Solis

Your Next Customer May Not Be Human: Designing the Web for People, AI Agents, and Machine-Native Markets

The intelligent web is entering its next phase. AI systems are moving from reading and summarizing the internet to researching, deciding, transacting, and increasingly interacting with other agents. That changes what leaders have to design for now.

Marketing Dive

Microdrama advertising surges as downloads soar: Report

The category has the highest density of advertising creative, with active advertisers on microdrama apps rising by 132% during the first half of the year.

Social Media Today

X launches MCP server

The system allows advertisers to connect their campaigns to the artificial intelligence tool of their choice and use it to guide their promotions.

Digiday

The IAB is developing a framework to tackle AI advertising measurement

The IAB is developing a framework to solve a big challenge in advertising: how to measure and assign credit when ads influence AI agents.

Digiday

Media Buying Briefing: Legal woes can hurt a holdco, but will it matter to clients?

WPP is feeling the heat from several directions in courts of law. But will clients actually care, or think of leaving? Possibly not.

Adweek

Eli Lilly Debuts Advertisement Selling GLP-1s to Medicare Enrollees

The campaign hopes to deliver consumer awareness about how the medication may help medicare enrollees.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Makes Minor Updates To Canonicalization Help Docs

Google has made some minor updates to the canonicalization help documents including the What is canonicalization and Fix canonicalization issues.

Chief Marketer

Marketers, The Free Token Lunch Is Over. Is Your Stack Ready?

Anthropic just dropped Claude Sonnet 5, reigniting a broader debate about how AI should be priced.

The Ahrefs Blog

MBA Metrics for SEO: How to Speak Leadership’s Language

As an SEO professional, metrics like rankings, traffic, and clicks are meaningful to you, but to a leadership team trained on market share and return on investment, they’re noise. That’s not a bias against SEO. It’s just what happens when…Read more ›

Seth's Blog

“Thanks for your quick response”

Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect

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