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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.

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.

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.

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.

Journal of Consumer Research Advance Access

The Benefits of Bundling Material Goods with Moderate Usage Complementarity

AbstractFirms can bundle material goods together in various ways, including based on their usage complementarity (i.e., the likelihood that the goods are used together).

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Fixed Favicon Bug & Crawl Stats Missing Data

Google has fixed two bugs this weekend related to Google Search. The first is the bug with many favicons not showing up in the Google Search result snippets. The second is the bug with two days of data missing from the Google Search Console crawl stats report.

Fast Company

Fast Company | Business News, Innovation, Technology, Work Life ...

Fast Company is the world's leading progressive business media brand, with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, and design.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Reduces Conversion Cycle For Maximize Conversion Value Bidding

Google has updated the Google Ads help document for About Maximize conversion value bidding with a number of changes. The change that stood out the most was Google lowering the conversion cycles requirement from three cycles to one or two conversion cycles.

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.

Adweek

Fanta’s Big Bet to Own Halloween: An Original Cinematic Universe

Fanta is betting on original entertainment to claim the Halloween season.

Adweek

Ticker: MS NOW Introduces Its Membership Subscription Program

ABC News Live is also introducing four new programs to its streaming lineup.

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 ›

EVENTS & LIVE TRAINING

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.

American Marketing Association

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