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Ashnikko’s new music video taps into our ultra-kitsch obsession with trinkets

The song’s drop coincides perfectly with the peak of the Labubu craze. Léa’s maximalist style, which uses visual clutter, noise and chaos, fits hand in hand with the song’s metaphors of collectables, keepsakes and trinkets – it’s a match made in heaven. Léa and Ashnikko realised they had the same reference in mind for the

AI Max for Search Has No Conversion Minimums

Google states that AI Max for Search can run in low-volume accounts, confirming there’s no minimum conversion recommendation. However, you must use a conversion-based Smart Bidding strategy for search-term matching to work. The clarification was provided during Google’s Ads Decoded podcast, where product managers discussed recent launches. What Google Said In the “Ads Decoded” podcast

Steve Hayden, Co-Creator of Apple’s ‘1984’ Ad, Passes at 78

Steve Hayden, the visionary advertising executive behind some of the most influential campaigns of the modern era, died on Aug. 27 at the age of 78. Hayden began his career as a copywriter at General Motors in Detroit. His career took off at Chiat/Day in the 1980s, where he partnered with Lee Clow and Brent

Nothing’s stock photo scandal is a lesson in accountability

To me, smartphone brand Nothing has always stood out as a slick outsider – the perfect alternative to those resistant to the Apple vs Android rivalry – so it came as a surprise to me when it was recently in the throes of controversy. It turns out the brand was caught using stock photos to

What CMOs Need To Ask About Their WordPress Stack

WordPress is still the most popular open-source content management system (CMS) – by far – powering 43.5 % of all websites on the web, and still in my opinion the most adaptable CMS to work with. However, WordPress isn’t just a plug-and-play CMS. If you’re in the marketing team or the CMO, you may find

How customer analytics closes the gaps in performance measurement

Attributed revenue, ROAS, conversion rate — traditional marketing metrics track efficiency but often miss the signals that reveal which customers drive growth. Today, first-party customer data is more accessible and valuable than ever. And when combined with AI, it opens the door to a new era of customer-centered performance measurement. Customer analytics shifts the focus

This cyanotype series grapples with the process of leaving Russia on ethical grounds

Ida Anderson lived in Moscow for 20 years before she realised she couldn’t stay anymore. After Russia’s war against Ukraine began, she made the move to Montenegro after always dreaming of living by the sea: “I found something deeply healing about the Adriatic coast after everything that happened,” says Ida. That same healing blue is

Why WooCommerce Slows Down (& How to Fix It With the Right Server Stack)

This post was sponsored by Cloudways. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Wondering why your rankings may be declining? Just discovered your WooCommerce site has slow load times? A slow WooCommerce site doesn’t just cost you conversions. It affects search visibility, backend performance, and customer trust. Whether you’re a developer running

Amazon has reversed its Google Shopping retreat

The sunny days are turning colder, the kids are headed back to school, and Amazon appears to have concluded its market-quaking pause on Google search spending. Summer’s over, it seems, for performance marketers. Back in July, Amazon cut its investment in Google Shopping ads down to almost nothing in every market it operated globally. The

Ringo Starr’s new art collection is the peace and love refresher I needed

We’ve all suffered through them: pop stars and celebrities picking up a paintbrush and foisting upon us artworks that feel like PR stunts in disguise. Robbie Williams, James Franco, Joel Lyucett, it’s like a conveyor belt of art crimes you can’t escape from. Then there’s Ringo Starr, the Beatle, the drummer, the eternal peace-and-love ambassador.

Research Shows How To Optimize For Google AIO And ChatGPT

New research from BrightEdge shows that Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, and ChatGPT recommend different brands nearly 62% of the time. BrightEdge concludes that each AI search platform is interpreting the data in different ways, suggesting different ways of thinking about each AI platform. Methodology And Results BrightEdge’s analysis was conducted with its AI Catalyst

Walgreens Cuts Internal Media-Buying Team Amid Strategic Shift

Walgreens laid off its media-buying team in July, ADWEEK has learned. The cuts amount to about 15 positions, according to one source with direct knowledge. The changes come as Walgreens refocuses on its core retail and pharmacy operations. In its Q3 earnings, Walgreens reported a $175 million loss, though sales rose 7% to $39 billion.

Dina Litovsky on the ethics of photographing the public

Dina Litovsky took to the Nicer Tuesday stage in New York City with It’s Nice That’s US editor-at-large Elizabeth Goodspeed to discuss her incredible body of work featuring starkly lit, uncompromising photographs as seen in The New York Times and Time magazine. Speaking about her career, Dina explained how being a photographer is a bit

SEO Has Been Tactical For 20 Years. GenAI Forces The Strategy Question

For as long as I’ve been in this industry, there’s been debate about whether SEO is strategic or tactical. Most SEOs would like to believe their work is strategic. Many executives see it as tactical. The truth is somewhere in between, and the arrival of generative AI is forcing a new level of clarity. This

The next era of ABM is strategy-led and AI-enabled

The promise of account-based go-to-market (GTM) has always been clear: Align marketing and sales around the highest-value accounts. Deliver personalized engagement. Drive measurable revenue impact. But as the strategy has matured, a new reality has emerged: execution complexity, organizational inertia and outdated success metrics continue to undermine the outcomes ABM is designed to deliver. Two

Keep running out of Switch 2 storage space? This new launch is for you

Nintendo fans will know of the struggles related to the decision to natively support microSD Express formats in the Switch 2 console. Since this type of card was relatively unpopular to manufacture until that point, there have been reports of Express cards selling out at major retailers. And if you want full speeds in your

New Strategies To Gain Local Search Visibility

This post was sponsored by DAC. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. The new reality of Search and brand discovery requires an Enterprise-to-Local strategy. Traditional keyword-driven search engine results pages (SERPs) are being disrupted by AI-driven experiences that anticipate, summarize, and even act on users’ needs. As generative AI tools like

The hurdles to Perplexity becoming the publisher-friendly LLM

This week’s Media Briefing looks at Perplexity’s latest publisher revenue share model, and why despite the opportunity the AI startup company has to being the publisher-friendly LLM, concerns remain over low adoption, vague payment terms and transparency issues. Perplexity’s missed opportunity? Perplexity has an opportunity — and plenty of reason — to be the publisher-friendly

Little Troop on striking a balance between the fresh and the familiar

Little Troop – the married design-duo Noemie Le Coz and Jeremy Elliot – delivered a talk bursting with humour and charm at June’s Nicer Tuesdays in New York, walking us through their designs for MoMA’s family festival, inspired by their own kids and their interactions with the natural world. The pair talked about striking a

Google Says GSC Sitemap Uploads Don’t Guarantee Immediate Crawls

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about how many sitemaps to upload, and then said there are no guarantees that any of the URLs will be crawled right away. A member of the r/TechSEO community on Reddit asked if it’s enough to upload the main sitemap.xml file, which then links to the more granular sitemaps.

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