Also: Consumer spending up, Amazon adds easy TV buys, and a pause button on YouTube comments
Plus: Digiday research finds brands sour on Twitter/X
LinkedIn is getting personal... Google's getting stricter... and btw your Threads are showing up on FB and IG
PLUS: Amazon's "Lifeline"... Multiple WhatsApp accounts... And a big oops at Instagram.
TikTok leaves the phone and wants to be on your street.
Piles of data, tangles of connections — Google offers a solution to first-party data overload, and we have expert analysis today.
Meta gives Reels Ads a big update. Generative AI is coming for your brand logos next. And even YouTube wants to claim part of Twitter’s territory.
Also: Google’s latest core update rolls out. And one way to get link headlines back on X? Pay them.
Also: TikTok pulls out of its fastest growing market. And how Buy Now Pay Later might save Q4.
Plus: More AI seeping into the ad platforms on Meta and LinkedIn. And the deepfake ads are here. God help us all.
Also: Agencies are using less of Facebook, and how much of your brand’s images are in Meta’s AI training pool?