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Friday, February 13, 2026

Social Media Today

Google Shares Coming AI-Powered Ad Innovations

Search Engine Roundtable

Google AdSense Adds New Triggers For Vignette Ads

Google AdSense has added additional triggers for vignette ads. There are now a total of six triggers, three old ones and three new ones. These new triggers took effect on February 9, 2026.

Marketing Dive

Sweetgreen names Wpromote paid media AOR as brand looks to reignite growth

Wpromote is tasked with balancing a cohesive national strategy with more market-specific opportunities as Sweetgreen combats a sales slump.

Marketing Dive

Publicis weds creator, sports marketing for new Influential Sports unit

The move is designed to help brands connect with sports fans at scale and measure creator-driven programs with greater speed and accuracy.

Social Media Examiner

Building Email Communities: How to Grow a Raving Audience

Are you struggling to maintain consistent engagement with your audience on social media? Frustrated by declining reach and algorithms that keep changing the rules?

ON-DEMAND TRAINING

American Marketing Association

Brand Strategy 101

Learn how brand commitment, brand voice, design and implementation create the impactful brand strategy you need.

American Marketing Association

Introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This introductory training provides a foundational understanding of search engine optimization and its impact on content visibility.

Marketing Week

Why tackling the ‘confidence gap’ could open up marketing careers

Supported by The Marketing Skills Trust, Ogilvy UK and Rapp UK, The Dodds Legacy is on a mission to instil confidence in marketers at the start of their careers.Source

Brain Pickings

The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity

"Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back."

Adweek

From Retail Relic to Market Darling: Sharon Price John on Reinventing Build-A-Bear

Fixing the business, not just the brand.

Social Media Today

Instagram Looks To Tap Into the Mini Drama Trend

Mini dramas are having a moment on TikTok and Instagram is taking notice.

Chief Marketer

When Conversation Becomes Inventory: How OpenAI Could Reshape Digital Advertising

For decades, digital advertising has relied on proxies for intent: demographics, behaviors, cohorts and fragmented signals inferred from clicks and cookies. As of this week, that model is being tested.

Harvard Business Review

How to Demonstrate Adaptability When Interviewing for a Senior Role

Your strongest advantage in today’s job market isn’t your title, experience, or a specific metric of success.

Marketing Week

Why BBH has succeeded at the ri