Your customers are shopping on TikTok while you’re still fixing your website, and more

Turns out “just build it and they will come” was never a strategy.

New research shows nearly half of Gen Z and millennial shoppers have browsed or bought on TikTok Shop in the past three months, compared to one in five shoppers overall.

Your website is not enough: Social commerce blends discovery, entertainment, and instant checkout in a way that makes your product page feel like a filing cabinet.

You don’t have to sell there directly, either. Micro-influencers and genuine customer content can pull the same audience without a big-budget campaign.

Meanwhile, your old posts just got a second life: Instagram now lets you swap the audio on already-published posts without losing likes, comments, or shares.

For brands, that means one viral clip can be reheated with this year’s trending sound instead of reshot, so your content becomes a reusable asset.

And Pinterest wants a word about your catalog: The platform says feed hygiene is a performance lever.

Titles with brand keywords are tied to 28% higher ROAS. Ad groups with 500+ SKUs beat thin ones. Vague fields quietly throttle strong campaigns.

Time to tidy up?

Continue Your Journey

Meta drops new features and they come with a price tag

18. September 2026
1 min read

Meta spent this week doing its best streaming-service impression: bundle everything, give it a short name, then slice it into six tiers. The headliner is Meta One, now live globally, from $2.99 to $499 a month. 15 million subscriptions and trials already. Buried in the business tiers is the one you actually want: links in…

AI Mode is becoming a storefront, a forum, and an ad unit

18. September 2026
2 min read

Search was once full of links, but now you can almost forget it… Google spent these days renovating the room while you were out buying holiday inventory. Shopping got agentic, officially. Merchant Center’s AI performance insights are now generally available in the US, Canada, Australia, India, and New Zealand. That means share-of-voice data on how…

Your budget-capped campaigns just got more expensive

16. September 2026
2 min read

Google’s reps spent a month insisting the August 17 bidding update wouldn’t change much. The data disagrees. Turns out bid suppression was subsidizing you. Mike Ryan’s numbers show CPCs climbing for budget-limited campaigns, with the cheap clicks they used to win now flowing to uncapped competitors. Google also confirmed the rollout finished globally on August…