The FTC's Amazon charges presage Google's second antitrust let-off in a year, while The Trade Desk...
The FTC's Amazon charges presage Google's second antitrust let-off in a year, while The Trade Desk...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2026
 
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Digiday
Ad Tech Briefing: Regulatory storm clouds gather and scatter over Big Tech, and indies count the cost
The FTC's Amazon charges presage Google's second antitrust let-off in a year, while The Trade Desk sheds hundreds.
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Journal of Consumer Research Advance Access
Consumer Responsibilization Work: The Everyday Making of Responsible Subjects
AbstractHow do consumers make themselves responsible for social change? Consumer responsibilization refers to the institutional shaping of individuals into responsible subjects tasked with driving social change through market participation.
 
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Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 8, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
 
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Marketing Dive
Campbell’s heats up digital focus amid marketing reformulation
Channels including social, influencer and e-commerce will command 85% of working media budgets as the marketer tries to meet modern consumer tastes.
 
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Ads AI Dashboards Live For Some Advertisers
Some advertisers are starting to see the new AI dashboards within Google Ads. As a reminder, Google showed off these Gemini-powered Google Ads dashboards last May and then in August said they would roll out soon and I guess now some advertisers are seeing it.
 
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Digiday
Anthropologie is launching Nike as sneaker shoppers increase nearly 30%
This story was first published by Digiday sibling Glossy. Sneakers have quietly become one of the biggest growth drivers for Anthropologie, the …
 
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Chief Marketer
AI Is Helping L’Oréal Brainstorm Unique Ways To Reach Male Audiences
L’Oréal adopted creative AI platform Springboards to generate creative ideas that led to a collaborative, ongoing ideation process.
 
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Social Media Examiner
Instagram Content Strategy, TikTok Ads Tools, and Industry News
Here's a recap of the most important insights, trends, and updates you need to know about today! Catch up in minutes and go into the rest of the week prepared.
 
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Social Media Examiner
How to Get AI to Recommend Your Business
Want to know how to create content that AI tools cite and recommend? Wondering how to optimize your website so AI systems treat your business as a trusted source?
 
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Hubspot
How much does AEO cost? Pricing by agency, tools, and software
How much does AEO cost? The short answer is roughly $30 a month for a monitoring tool you run yourself to over $15,000 a month for a full-service agency program that handles everything for you — with a wide middle in between.
 
Journal of Consumer Research Advance Access
The Desire for Perfect Products
AbstractSome consumers evaluate products against demanding, ever-rising ideals of perfection. We introduce the desire for perfect products (DPP), a novel consumer trait capturing the extent to which consumers desire flawless products.
 
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Social Media Today
Zuckerberg is one of the least-liked people in the US
A survey from UMass Lowell’s Center for Public Opinion found that the Meta CEO was equally and deeply unpopular on both sides of the political spectrum.
 
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EVENTS & LIVE TRAINING
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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.

 
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American Marketing Association
Measure What Matters in Content Marketing

Good content measurement doesn’t start with a dashboard. It starts with a clear agreement on what you’re actually trying to learn and who on your team is responsible for acting on it.

This workshop helps you build exactly that. You’ll work through how to identify the metrics that reflect your real content goals, how to extract insights that make your segmentation sharper and your personalization more relevant, and how to draw a straight line from your content program to your lead generation and nurture results.