Wednesday, May 15

Today's Essential Marketing News & Tips

Google dropped a lot of exciting new AI updates yesterday at its I/O developer event. Missed the event? Check out today’s insight below for everything marketers need to know from the announcement 👇🏻

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Nearly 10% of the time Americans spent in front of TV screens last month was on YouTube’s smart TV app. (Source: Nielsen)

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⚡️ Today’s Headlines ⚡️

🤝 TikTok is copying Instagram again with its ‘Collaboration’ feature

👀 Instagram is copying BeReal again with its ‘Peek’ feature

🔎 TikTok is also testing ChatGPT-generated results in search

🌳 Snapchat is measuring the carbon emissions of digital ads

🚪 Meta is shutting down Workplace, its enterprise comms business

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💡 Today’s Insight 💡

🗞 TL;DR - Google had its I/O keynote event yesterday with tons of new announcements – mostly including AI innovations. If you didn’t catch the full two-hour presentation, TechCrunch has summed it all up into the top news, and we’ve listed out our favorites for marketers below.

💡 Insight - Here are the top announcements and product launches marketers need to know from Google’s I/O 2024 event:

  • YouTube AI-Generated Quizzes, a conversational tool allowing users to figuratively “raise their hand” when watching videos

  • Google Play is getting a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, and other developer-facing enhancements

  • Android devices will soon listen to calls for “conversation patterns commonly associated with scams” in real time to flag spam calls

  • Gemini in Gmail to summarize, search, and draft emails, alongside more complex tasks

  • Gemini Live allows users to have “in-depth voice chats” with Gemini on their smartphones

  • More AI will be added to Google Search with plans to use generative AI to organize the entire search results page

  • Imagen 3, a more accurate, creative, and detailed AI image generator

  • Veo, an AI model that can create 1080p video clips around a minute long given a text prompt, to compete with OpenAI’s Sora

  • AI-powered Circle to Search feature can now solve more complex problems across physics and math word problems

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