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🥊Audience battle.

Pinterest revenue grows 18% while user growth stalls, TikTok Live overtakes legacy platforms, Google Smart Bidding updates launch August 17, and more.

Aug 7, 2026

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6 min read

New users are hard to come by, so everyone’s fighting for the old ones

Pinterest grows revenue 18% despite flat user growth, Disney integrates TikTok fan videos, and TikTok Live captures over half of streaming hours.

Aug 7, 2026

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1 min read

Smart Bidding and AI Max updates land soon, Shopping ads get urgency badges, and more.

Google upgrades Smart Bidding for budget-limited campaigns, auto-migrates Search to AI Max, and adds urgency badges to Shopping ads.

Aug 7, 2026

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1 min read

Search is adding doors, and most of them need keys

Google tests sign-in prompts for deep search results, Cloudflare blocks mixed-purpose crawlers, and Microsoft Clarity splits AI query types.

Aug 5, 2026

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1 min read

Amazon opens its ads to creators and its doors to AI agents

Amazon extends ads to creator networks, appeals court allows AI shopping agents, and anti-bot measures block human review readers.

Aug 5, 2026

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1 min read

📦Agents.

Amazon expands ads through creators while blocking real shoppers, Google tests sign-in gates for deep search results, using customer names boosts revenue 17%, and more.

Aug 5, 2026

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7 min read

Bystander Effect

Why groups of people fail to take action when responsibility feels shared, and how to use the bystander effect to trigger individual response.

Aug 4, 2026

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4 min read

The creator playbook: go vertical, stand out, skip the slop

Reddit tests vertical video playback, Instagram viewers still outnumber creators 2 to 1, and Snapchat bans low-effort AI content in Spotlight.

Aug 3, 2026

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1 min read

AI is rewriting search, and your marketing has to keep up

OpenAI tests chatbot-native ads with AI agents, Google AI answers cite 168 sources with no clear leader, and AI Mode shows 95% fewer product listings.

Aug 3, 2026

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1 min read

🤳🏼 Vertical reddit.

Reddit tests vertical video, ChatGPT builds chatbot-native ads, Google AI Mode shrinks product listings, search shifts to creator authority, and more.

Aug 3, 2026

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6 min read

🏷️ Gray area.

Amazon cashes in on questionable origin labels, AI now answers nearly half of Google searches, TikTok Shop hits $1 billion in beauty sales, Google targets AI content networks, and more.

Aug 3, 2026

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7 min read

Amazon cashes in on gray-area labels while TikTok Shop surges

Amazon ad revenue hits $19.8 billion as Q2 surges 26% while TikTok Shop beauty sales climb 82% to nearly $1 billion last quarter.

Aug 3, 2026

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1 min read

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🥊Audience battle.

New users are hard to come by, so everyone’s fighting for the old ones

Smart Bidding and AI Max updates land soon, Shopping ads get urgency badges, and more.

Search is adding doors, and most of them need keys

Amazon opens its ads to creators and its doors to AI agents

📦Agents.

Bystander Effect

The creator playbook: go vertical, stand out, skip the slop

AI is rewriting search, and your marketing has to keep up

🤳🏼 Vertical reddit.

🏷️ Gray area.

Amazon cashes in on gray-area labels while TikTok Shop surges

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