Let’s go through the latest in digital marketing news, resources, tools, and jobs…

11 ways to use AI in social media (not just for content creation)
Christina Newberry
Christina shares how to use AI-powered social media tools without sacrificing safety or privacy, or fully handing over the reins to robots.

How to Get More Followers on Threads: 10 Tactics to Help You Grow
Kirsti Lang
Kirsti shares tried and tested strategies for growing your following on Threads, with insider tips from the Threads team.

Facebook adds new AI features, animated profile photos, and backgrounds for text posts
Lauren Forristal
Facebook announced new updates, which include animated profile pictures, photo-restyling tools for Stories and Memories, and the ability to add animated backgrounds to text posts.

Meta launches AI algorithm personalization feature for Threads
Jonathan Vanian
Meta debuted an AI feature called “Dear Algo” that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms. 

The Halo Effect: Your Paid Media Went Offline, Can You Survive Without It?
Jonathan Kagan
Turning off paid media sounds efficient until the data shows what happens to demand, brand search, and orders. Jonathan goes through it. 

OpenAI starts testing ChatGPT ads
Anu Adegbola
OpenAI is rolling out its first live test of ads in ChatGPT, showing sponsored messages directly inside the app for select users. Free users can also opt out of ads in exchange for fewer daily messages or upgrade to a paid plan.

Reddit advertising: Your strategic starter guide
John Paul Hernandez
John breaks down your complete strategy for Reddit advertising, from understanding the audience and selecting ad types to launching campaigns that provide genuine value in this guide.

Product Eligibility Per Campaign Now Live in Products Section
Hana Kobzová
Google Ads has updated the Products section to display campaign eligibility directly in the Status column, making it easier to see where each product is eligible.

Email marketing reporting: Our top best practices and tool recommendations for 2026
Justina Thompson
Justina breaks down what email marketing reporting actually involves, which KPIs to track at each funnel stage, how to build a dashboard that surfaces actionable insights, and which email marketing reporting tools can help you get there.

5 Content Marketing Ideas for March 2026
Armando Roggio
From spring renewal to National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day and Live Long and Prosper Day, Armando shares five content marketing ideas for next month. 

Winning B2B Brand Trust Part 2: How To Earn Attention One Room at a Time
Robert Rose
Speaking with one voice story no longer works. To build trust, brands need to get comfortable telling the same truths in different ways to connect with distinct audiences in their own spaces. Robert shows how it’s done.

The authority deficit: Does your brand lack content, or courage?
Sarah Mitchell
If you're posting content regularly but not seeing ROI, your brand doesn't have a content problem. It has a courage problem. Sarah goes through it.

From Article to Short-Form Video That Holds Attention
Matt G. Southern
Matt goes through how to convert existing articles into short-form video scripts using platform-tested structures, retention strategies, and efficient batch workflows.

Employee-generated content is the next big thing for brands
Aubree Schaefer
With guardrails, employee-generated content helps brands build trust, scale authentic storytelling, and humanize marketing. Aubree goes through it. 

Beyond The Feed: The Evolution Of Influencer Marketing Into Scalable Performance Channels
Vaibhav Kakkar
With consumer attention firmly rooted on social platforms, creators now shape discovery, build trust, and influence purchase decisions more quickly.

Influencer marketing: Is it a good side hustle?
Miranda Marquit
Miranda goes through what influencer marketing is, how influencers make money, and how to become one yourself. 

​​​ChatGPT Has 12% of Google’s Search Volume, but Google sends 190x More Traffic to Websites​
Patrick Stox
Patrick compares searches and traffic referred from ChatGPT vs Google and explains why if AI search is the future of search, website traffic is in trouble: "Google connects people to websites, ChatGPT keeps them in conversation."

​ChatGPT is NOT a search engine​
Resoneo
The Resoneo team has dissected ChatGPT Search's internal architecture to provide a deep technical understanding of its mechanisms: from the Sonic classifier to the RRF fusion system, through image pipelines and the Mercury shopping module. A must-read and bookmark.​

Gemini 3 and a Google bug left 1 in 10 AI Overviews without any sources​
Yevheniia Khromova 
Gemini 3 launched with a bug. Yevheniia analyzed what happened: 46% of domains lost citations, sourceless answers jumped to 10.63%, and appearance rates fell.

​​​Microsoft is introducing an AI Performance Report in Bing Webmaster Tools
Krishna Madhavan, Meenaz Merchant, Fabrice Canel, Saral Nigam
The new AI Performance report in Bing Webmaster Tools shows how sites' content appears across Microsoft Copilot, AI-generated summaries in Bing, and select partner integrations.

Google AI Mode rolls out UCP-powered Checkout​
Google
Google launches UCP-powered checkout, letting US shoppers buy items from Etsy and Wayfair, right in AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app (with Shopify, Target, and Walmart coming soon).

Cloudflare introduces Markdown for Agents​
Celso Martinho, Will Allen 
Cloudflare introduces markdown for AI agents, while explaining that feeding raw HTML to an AI is like paying by the word to read packaging instead of the letter.

PostPal - AI Social Media Content from Your Website 
PostPal
Paste your website URL. This tool analyzes your brand in 30 seconds, then generates content that sounds exactly like you.

Arcade - Bring your product story to life in minutes
Arcade
Create beautiful, on-brand demos, videos, and visuals. All powered by AI.

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