Wednesday, November 29

Today's top marketing news, tips, & tools

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Did you know that today is National Electronic Greetings Day? I know, these holidays always seem super sketchy and made up. But I’m writing you an electronic greeting right now, so I thought it was fitting.

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🧠 Stat Of The Day 🧠

The U.S. ad market expanded for its fourth consecutive month in October, rising 3.2% over October 2022. (Source: Guideline’s U.S. Ad Market Tracker)

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⚡️Today’s Headlines⚡️

🤖 Ready for X’s Grok AI to be front and center on the app?

🎥 Everyone can now jump on YouTube Shorts ads

🙌 Good news for LinkedIn ad buyers: lots of performance updates

📜 Could social media posts get First Amendment rights?

😬 100+ brands are following Apple’s lead and leaving X ads

🛠️ Things Worth Checking Out 🛠️

⛽️ FUEL GROWTH - 3 agencies rolled into one powerhouse. Influencer management, creative assets at scale, media buying - all under one roof with Kynship. Visit here.

 REDDIT ADS - Reddit’s added another certification course to its Reddit Ads Formula marketing education platform. You can now get a “Creative” certification to show off your knowledge. Get Reddit certified.

💰 BFCM RECAP - Using AI, Shopify monitored live sales of Black Friday Cyber Monday weekend, showcased via a sleek map available to the public. Check out the final sales report.

🚫 ANTI-AI - Google-Extended, the product token Google made to let users block their Bard AI, is turning out to be pretty popular. More than 250 websites, including Yelp & NYTimes, are using it. Sorry, AI.

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Today’s Insight

📰 TL;DR - LinkedIn just released its “Future of Work” report, mainly focusing this year on how AI impacts different industries. LinkedIn claims they’ve seen conversations around AI increase by 70% in the last year – conversations that they dive even deeper into throughout the report.

💡 Insight - Check out the full details of the report here, but here are some of our top highlights:

  • Global conversations on AI are being driven by:

    • 58% Men / 31% Women / 11% Other/Unknown

    • 45% of Millennials / 26% Gen Z / 21% Gen X / 4% Boomers

    • 29% in Professional Services / 17% in Tech / 9% in Education

    • 18% of Executives / 15% of Engineers

  • 74% of executives believe that generative AI will benefit their employees

  • 47% of LinkedIn members’ skills are expected to be disrupted by generative AI

  • “Head of AI” job positions have been growing by double digits since December 2022

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