Meta introduced improvements to its suite of lead generation tools with a focus on the often-overlooked post-holiday period. Meta refers to the period from just after Christmas into January as “Q5.” While many advertisers pull back their spend during this time, Meta says advertisers who ran campaigns on its platform
Call me cynical, but when Canva said it had some news about Affinity, my heart dropped. For a decade, the three Affinity apps have been the best non-subscription alternatives to Adobe software that we’ve seen. There was Photoshop alternative Affinity Photo, Illustrator alt Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher for desktop
The footprint of large language models keeps expanding. You see it in productivity suites, CRM, ERP, and now in the browser itself. When the browser thinks and acts, the surface you optimize for changes. That has consequences for how people find, decide, and buy. Microsoft shows how quickly this footprint
Starbucks claims the decision to “overhaul” its marketing is driving stronger customer perception scores and market share growth. Speaking yesterday (29 October) on the publication of the firm’s full year results, CEO Brian Niccol described the fourth quarter as a “milestone” in the coffee chain’s turnaround, as the business delivered
Multidisciplinary artist and designer Maxence Duterne is inspired by a quote from the Swiss visual artist Silvie Defraoui: “A work is never created alone, but in conversation with the world.” In response to this idea, Maxence used behaviours of the natural world to inform his creation of the Physarum Type
Learn How to Track What Really Matters in AI Search Tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Mode no longer deliver ranked results; they deliver answers. So what happens when traditional SEO metrics no longer apply? Join AJ Ghergich, Global VP of AI and Consulting Services at Botify, and Frank
AI agents are the current focal point for agencies, marketers and publishers hoping to deploy the potential of generative AI to practical effect. Examples range from Coca-Cola’s Fizzion project, an agent embedded into the Adobe Creative Cloud, which enforces the brand’s visual style guidelines across its global creative output, to
Adobe MAX 2025 is underway in LA, and the creative tech giant has announced a slew of new features coming to its software. There’s prompt-based image editing in the AI image generator Firefly with Image Model 5, AI upscaling from Topaz Labs in Photoshop, and Premiere gets a new Object
Google Chrome will enable “Always Use Secure Connections” by default with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, the company announced. The change means Chrome will ask for user permission before loading any public website that doesn’t use HTTPS encryption. Users will see a bypassable warning explaining the security
In recent months, a growing number of premium publishers have unveiled ambitious, expensive brand marketing campaigns, splashing bespoke creative across digital, social, and physical channels to draw consumer attention to their companies. More intriguingly, the vast majority of these publishers have never run such campaigns before. In January, Hearst Corp.
