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Friday, September 4, 2026

Fast Company

Made Possible: A story of transformation

How does a company with more than 500 brands remain a future-fit, connected enterprise? At PepsiCo, teams are reimagining how products are made, moved, and brought to market—from R&D and the manufacturing floor to supply chain operations.

Digiday

Ace Hardware adds weather-triggered programmatic ads to retail media strategy

Almost one year into its existence, Ace Hardware’s retail media network, RedVest Media, just announced a slate of new features for advertisers as part of an upfront event last week.

Social Media Examiner

Change Gems and GPTs Into Skills, Train Autonomous AI Employees, and Industry News

Friday is almost here! Before you unplug, here's one last round of insights and updates. Whether you read them now or save them for later, you won't want to miss these.

For Momentum

Corporate Engagement Materials and Prospect Outreach: No Kid Hungry by Share Our Strength

Client Feature: No Kid Hungry by Share Our Strength OVERVIEW Share Our Strength is a national nonprofit organization dedicated

Fast Company

Getting the right products to the right people at the right time

How PepsiCo is putting power into the hands of its smallest retailersFor global food and beverage brand PepsiCo, Mexico plays a critically important role. In fact, it’s the company’s second-largest market after the U.S.

Search Engine Roundtable

Publishers Noticing Google News Tab Content Disappearing

Over the past several days, I have been hearing from some publishers that while their content is being crawled, indexed, and served in Google Search results, some of it is missing from the news tab. It may then later show up in the news tab, much later.

For Momentum

Expanded Charitable Partnership to Match Brand’s Rapid Growth and Stakeholder Priorities

Client Feature: Tropical Smoothie Cafe OVERVIEW Tropical Smoothie Cafe (TSC) is a franchise quick-service restaurant (QSR) serving smoothies and

Adweek

Publicis Lands PepsiCo’s Global Media Business, Withdraws From Coke Pitch

As the CPG unifies its media account under Publicis Groupe, a source told ADWEEK it will withdraw from Coca-Cola’s global media pitch

Chief Marketer

AI Data Centers Must Go Beyond Sustainability Claims to Win Back Their License to Operate

The media narrative around artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers has shifted dramatically. The next phase of data center communications begins with asking people to trust that these facilities are more efficient or sustainable.

Adweek

Wellness Brand Rouge Care Let AI Agents Buy Its TV Ads, and Made 5x Its Money Back

The CTV campaign used two agents, one for planning and one for buying

Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: September 3, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.Google has dodged being broken up for a second time on its monopoly ruling...

Distilled

Google Ads Is Testing PMax Channel Controls. Should Advertisers Use Them?

Google is reportedly alpha-testing channel-level controls within Performance Max, which could give advertisers a new way to influence how Google values individual channels including Search, YouTube, Display, Discover, Gmail and Maps.

EVENTS & LIVE TRAINING

American Marketing Association

Meta Ads in 2026: AI, Advantage+ and What’s Actually Working

Running Meta ads used to feel more straightforward. Now there are AI-driven tools to learn, privacy changes to work around, and a platform that looks different than it did 18 months ago. If you’ve been patching together what you know or avoiding Ads Manager altogether, two hours can close a lot of ground.

This workshop walks you through how Meta advertising has changed and what is working right now. You’ll get up to speed on Advantage+ campaigns, understand how to use AI-assisted tools for copy, creative, and predictive testing, and learn how to set up the Conversions API so your measurement holds up in a privacy-first environment.