Catégorie : Marketing

Are you looking for ways to round out your social media ad planning for this year? Have you considered LinkedIn’s Thought Leader Ads? LinkedIn’s Thought Leader Ads enable brands to boost user-generated content, providing a means to amplify positive comments from their audience. LinkedIn expanded Thought Leader Ads to posts from any user (as opposed to […]

With AI chatbot usage on the rise, more marketers are turning to Reddit as a means to better link into this emerging discovery process, and counter at least some of the declines in Search referral traffic. Why? Because as explained by Reddit: “According to Bain & Co., more than 60% of AI searches now end […]

It looks like Elon Musk’s X could be in hot water again, as it continues to skirt regulations around potentially offensive content. Over the last few weeks, a new trend has emerged on X, where X users prompt X’s Grok chatbot in-stream to convert images of people, mostly women, into naked or near-naked depictions of […]

Within a week of each other, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Jaana Dogan, a Principal Engineer working on Google’s Gemini API, posted comments about AI criticism that shared a theme. Both redirected attention away from whether AI output is “good” or “bad” and toward how people are reacting to the technology. Nadella published “Looking Ahead […]

AI has created insecurity for content writers, where their jobs could be in jeopardy from machine-generated content at scale. The reality is that many content writers may be displaced, but the ones that can survive and be in demand are the ones who embrace the current changes in search and adapt. Writers can be irreplaceable […]

Will 2026 be the year that TikTok shopping becomes a major force for Western consumers? TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has already seen big success with in-stream shopping in the Chinese version of the app (Douyin), with the platform generating around $500 billion in GMV in 2025. And while TikTok users haven’t been as enthusiastic about […]

Look, I’m not saying that TikTok is likely to be banned in the U.S. later this month, but… While reports just before Christmas suggested that a TikTok U.S. deal had been signed, ensuring that the app would remain in operation in America, with a local version of the platform to be sold into U.S. ownership, […]

Santa’s coming! The world waits with excitement and anticipation for the arrival of Santa Claus as he starts his world tour for 2025. Children (and adults) everywhere are eager to track the man in the red suit as he defies the speed limit to make his journey across the globe in just one night. To […]

I’ve been covering social media for a long time now, more than a decade in fact, and I can tell you one thing that I’ve learned about Instagram chief Adam Mosseri: He’s a corporate drone, with little personality or passion about anything in particular, and no matter what, he’s going to tow the company line, […]

Meta has acquired yet another AI start-up as part of its expanded mission towards AI “superintelligence,” with AI chatbot company Manus joining the Meta flock. Manus, which says that it builds “general AI agents as the action engine for life,” and describes its mission as “extending human reach by giving everyone the code to leverage […]