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Cannes Briefing: Creativity is moving beyond the agency model

This indie game’s seamless mix of art styles looks incredible

A game’s art style sets the tone for players. Most titles games go with one single video game art style that create their mood and defines their visual identity. But can a game use more than one and combine them in a coherent way? Here’s one interesting upcoming indie game that tries to do just

OpenAI Launches Apps In ChatGPT & Releases Apps SDK

OpenAI has launched a new app ecosystem within ChatGPT, along with a preview of the Apps SDK, enabling developers to create conversational, interactive applications based on the Model Context Protocol. These apps are now accessible to all logged-in ChatGPT users outside the European Union, across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. Early partners include Booking.com,

Salesforce says social engineering to blame for breaches leading to ransom demands

Hackers claiming to have accessed and stolen nearly 1 billion Salesforce records set up a site on the dark web late last week, demanding a ransom from 39 companies and Salesforce itself before releasing the records. The hackers gave a deadline of Oct. 10, 2025. The hackers, who go by the moniker Shiny Hunters and published

Applications open for the It’s Nice That x DROOL Artist Open Call

Here’s how you can get involved: Applications for the Artist Open Call are open from 6 October – 14 October 2025. Artists can submit their work here. Artists will retain full ownership of their artwork but grant DROOL a temporary licence to produce, market, and sell their artwork. Artists earn a 15 per cent commission

Are AI Tools Eliminating Jobs? Yale Study Says No

Marketing professionals rank among the most vulnerable to AI disruption, with Indeed recently placing marketing fourth for AI exposure. But employment data tells a different story. New research from Yale University’s Budget Lab finds “the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT’s release 33 months ago,” undercutting fears of economy-wide job

10 ways to be a better marketer from PwC’s global CMO

PwC’s Antonia Wade shares the 10 pieces of advice she would give to anyone looking to make themselves a more complete marketer. Source

Alienware 16 Area-51 review: Dell’s latest gaming laptop may also be its greatest

Why you can trust Creative Bloq Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you. Find out more about how we test. The Alienware 16 Area-51 is a gaming laptop from Dell, but don’t let that fool you. While Dell laptops are reliably mundane (and

YouTube View Drops Likely Tied To Ad-Block List Change

Creators have reported view declines on YouTube since mid-August. YouTube’s official Liaison account says the change wasn’t on YouTube’s side and points to a widely shared explanation on X: an ad-blocking list update that interferes with how views are logged. What YouTube Has Said Responding to creators, YouTube’s Creator Liaison wrote: “The change wasn’t on

Media Buying Briefing: AI’s impact on search forces agencies to rewrite the marketing script

For all the talk of generative AI upending the media agency business — I get daily pitches of this agency or that data platform rolling out a new proprietary AI system that changes everything! — it’s not as impactful as what’s happening to the search business. Zero-click search and generative search optimization (GEO) are the

Collins identity for a new climate movement emulates the healing feeling of sitting in the sun

Collins has designed the identity for a new global day of climate action, Sun Day, conceived by environmental activist Bill McKibben and Denis Hayes, the founders of the original Earth Day. With a strong focus on creating the necessary momentum for clean energy transition, the visual identity focuses on the collective and healing power of

Yoast Announces New AI Visibility Tool

Yoast announced the release of their Brand Insights tool, which helps track and monitor brand sentiment and visibility in AI platforms like ChatGPT. The new tool, currently in beta, is a new direction for Yoast because it’s not a plugin and doesn’t need CMS access. The complete tool is called Yoast SEO AI+. The tool

Former CNN Boss Opens Up About Mental Health in New Book

Top of the Ticker: Tom Johnson, who led CNN in the 1990s, is out with a new book, Driven: A Life In Public Service And Journalism From LBJ To CNN, where he talks about his fight with depression. In the book, Johnson recounts how he told Ted Turner about his battle with depression while interviewing

Perfect Froot Loops collaboration shows NFT art isn’t dead

Does anyone remember what NFTs are? Back in 2021, they dominated the news in art, branding and tech, with some NFT artworks selling for huge prices. The bubble didn’t last long, and today many people might even be wondering if NFTs are even still a thing. While we might not see headline-making sales today, non-fungible

What Are The Most Common Hreflang Mistakes?

This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from a reader facing a common challenge when setting up international websites: “I’m expanding into international markets but I’m confused about hreflang implementation. My rankings are inconsistent across different countries, and I think users are seeing the wrong language versions. What are the most common hreflang mistakes, and

How to set up GA4 cross-domain tracking for global and multi-brand sites

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is built to unify data across domains, devices and platforms — giving marketers a clearer view of customer behavior. For businesses managing multi-brand portfolios or international sites, that clarity depends on advanced cross-domain tracking. Here’s how to set it up, apply best practices and see it in action with a real-world

POV: Where has the money gone?

DEI rollbacks have been a persistent and worrying backdrop to 2025. The co-founders of Where Are The Black Designers? reveal how funding cuts postponed their largest project to date, and the bleak picture this paints for the creative industry today.

Branding, Survival And The State Of SEO

Branding has never been more important. Online audiences continue to yearn for connection, and a strong brand identity can bridge the gap. Katie Morton, Editor-in-Chief of Search Engine Journal, sits down with Mordy Oberstein, Founder of Unify Brand Marketing, to discuss why authenticity in branding and online content matters more than ever. They also discuss

NFL team Minnesota Vikings on how it fosters a lifelong customer journey

CMO Martin Nance explains what brands can learn from the way sports teams interact with their fans. Source

The new lavender Cricut Joy Xtra is already on sale ahead of Prime Day

Prime Day is fast approaching, and we’re already seeing some Cricut Prime Day deals on retailers including Cricut itself and Very (in the UK). The best of these offers are on the beautiful new Cricut Joy Xtra, which we saw when visiting Cricut recently. We can attest that it is really, really good-looking. And right

A New Layer Of Technical SEO

For years, technical SEO has been about crawlability, structured data, canonical tags, sitemaps, and speed. All the plumbing that makes pages accessible and indexable. That work still matters. But in the retrieval era, there’s another layer you can’t ignore: vector index hygiene. And while I’d like to claim my usage of vector index hygiene is unique,

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