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Adweek

A Holiday Playbook for the Year’s Busiest Shopping Season

This post was created in partnership with CVS Media Exchange For retail brands, the holiday season is a critical time to get consumers into stores to shop. And because shoppers have […]

Digiday

Media buys and mega partnerships: How the creator economy is splitting in two

There’s a growing bifurcation in the creator economy. While the Alix Earle’s and Mr Beast’s of the world take on the role of agencies, nano and micro creators have become media buys.

Digiday

Ad Tech Briefing: Zeta goes big as Apple casts a shadow over Advertising Week

Advertising Week New York saw more ad tech M&A, plus, the rise of the "universal buying platform."

Adweek

United Reorganizes Advertising Business To Prioritize Starlink and Other Tech Investments

Changes at United's Kinective Media follow a string of leadership departures.

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

Marketing Dive

Brand new bag: Chipotle, Unreal Snacks reach for fashion relevancy

A “Big Ass Chipotle Bag” and a clutch made to fit Unreal treats join a trend that has seen a handful of marketers use fashion as a way to grow loyalty.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Merchant Center Videos Stuck In Preview Processing

There are reports of an error in Google Merchant Center with video uploads getting stuck in the "preview processing" status. This causes the videos to look static both in your product listings in Google Search and other surfaces.

Chief Marketer

X and Morgan Stanley Bet Financial Chatter Can Drive Trades

At AWNY, Morgan Stanley and X detail their Cashtags partnership, a live test of whether real-time financial interest can drive customer action and how to measure that connection.

Social Media Today

Meta offers updated ad placement control guidance

The revised overview provides options for enabling some level of ongoing control as the company continues to automate its ad display systems.

Click Funnels

The 7 Best Shopify Upsell Apps in 2026, From Product Page to Post-Purchase

Marketing Dive

Publicis calls AI marketing opportunity a ‘2-speed boat’ as agentic booms

The firm’s Sapient arm exemplifies AI’s dynamics as it struggles with growth but is instrumental to winning new business without a pitch.

CMSWire

Is Your Marketing Ready for the Agentic Era?

Experts from Ibexa and its technology partners sit down for a roundtable discussion on how to adopt agentic AI smartly.Continue reading...

EVENTS & LIVE TRAINING

American Marketing Association

Digital Marketing Copywriting – October 2026

This small-group online training will help you build your writing skills by exploring the latest techniques and best practices in copywriting for the web (specifically social media, blogs, and email). Uncover the technical foundations and the creative instincts that make good writing repeatable across platforms.