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Cannes Briefing: Creativity is moving beyond the agency model
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Livestreaming is more than just a social media strategy for the husband-and-wife team behind the eight-figure luxury handbag and accessories brand Parker Thatch. It’s also a weekly Friday ritual, where they set up a camera and tripod in their Orinda, California strip-mall storefront and log online. The QVC-style streams reach an audience of 179,000 Instagram
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In New York City-based illustrator Xiao Hua Yang’s work, reality isn’t escaped from but gently shifted. Imagination is left to wander, but it always circles back. Inspired by dreams, books, passing observations and the small events in daily life, each piece carries a subtle emotional charge, be it through the motion of a time-lapsed starry
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So, let’s say you spent six months building a resource library: guides, explainers, comparison pages, all well-researched and clearly written, structured for humans who are trying to make decisions. Your analytics show strong engagement, and your team is proud of the work. Then someone asks ChatGPT a question your library answers perfectly, and the response
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ABC is pulling the new season of The Bachelorette from the schedule. Following allegations of domestic violence against this season’s star, Secret Lives of Mormon Wives personality Taylor Frankie Paul, as well as a leaked video of an incident between Frankie Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen, from 2023, ABC isn’t moving forward with the
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Nvidia’s unveiling of its new graphics tech DLSS 5 promptly sparked an unusual mix of excitement and ridicule. Nvidia sees the upcoming version of its Deep Learning Super Sampling technology as a game-changing moment for graphics, using generative AI to add lighting detail, materials and other visual touches to enhance frames in real time. However,
Read MoreShelly Verkamp helped build the PESO Model Certification. Then she had to complete it. Spoiler: that’s when the real learning started. She shares her journey. The post I Helped Build the PESO Model Certification® and It Still Humbled Me first appeared on Spin Sucks.
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Google updated the Universal Commerce Protocol with new Cart and Catalog capabilities, highlighted Identity Linking as an available option, and announced a simpler onboarding process through Merchant Center. The update is UCP’s first since Google launched the protocol at NRF in January. Cart and Catalog are published as draft specifications. Identity Linking is in the
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ActiveCampaign is expanding its Active Intelligence capabilities with new agent-to-user AI and AI personalization features. The new capabilities expand on ActiveCampaign’s vision for an AI-enabled approach to marketing automation for SMBs. Benchmark your campaigns against your peers ActiveCampaign’s new AI Performance Intelligence continuously analyzes campaign and automation performance against billions of signals across the platform,
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MODERN TREE HOUSES “Reconnect with nature” — Editorial illustration — Above the forest floor, a world of wonder awaits. Tree houses have always captured our imaginations : symbols of escapism, endless youthful summers, and a deep-rooted connection to nature. But today, they’ve evolved beyond childhood hideaways into architectural marvels that blend sustainability and cutting-edge design. Whether
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SEO, like most organic and non-advertising or paid channels in digital marketing, is labor-intensive. Yes, there are software suites, analytics platforms, research tools, and a number of other things that help in the tech stack. We all have our favorites, and no one is (or should) be doing SEO like I was in 2008 (despite
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Earned media used to mean landing a headline in a major news publication. Now, it’s more likely a mention from a TikTok news explainer or creator-led podcast. As audiences increasingly turn to social media for news — and LLMs challenge publishers’ distribution dominance — some brands are starting to earmark earned media dollars for news-adjacent
Read MoreFor our first Nicer Tuesdays of 2026, the iconic photographer Derek Ridgers joined us in London for a retrospective of his decades-spanning portfolio. From his early work for Island Records (when he didn’t even own a camera), to becoming one of the key photographers of the punk era, documenting London’s rich music scene and adorning
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Enterprise SEO doesn’t fail because teams lack knowledge. It fails because they’re invited too late. In most large organizations, SEO still operates in a reactive posture. Teams review pages after launch, run audits, document issues, file tickets, and then wait, often for months, for other teams to implement changes. Modern search visibility is no longer
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This story was originally published in On Background with Mark Stenberg, a free, weekly newsletter that explores the key themes shaping the media industry. You can sign up for it here. This past week, I flew to Austin to attend South by Southwest, the annual festival now owned by PMC that combines networking and thought leadership
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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. Details (Image credit: BBG Entertainment) Publisher BBG Entertainment Developer BBG Entertainment Format PS5 (Reviewed), Xbox Series X/S, PC, Switch, PS4, Mac Platform Unity
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Last Friday afternoon, Digg died. Again. Two months. That’s how long the relaunch lasted before CEO Justin Mezzell pinned a eulogy to the homepage. The platform had raised $15-20 million. It had Kevin Rose. It had Alexis Ohanian – Reddit’s co-founder, no less. It had promises that AI would “remove the janitorial work of moderators
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Among all the concerns marketers have when bringing AI into decision-making, there’s one we don’t talk about enough: Are we too quick to assume AI knows what’s going on in our heads when we build models? This stems from a growing worry about introducing bias when building prompts and formatting queries. The bias can stem
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Google’s John Mueller answered a question about moving to HTTPS, explaining why the process of making a site secure is actually a major undertaking that can have a negative impact on rankings. Loss Of Top 3 Google Rankings A person asked on Reddit why they lost their top 3 rankings in Google after making their
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The fast pace of trends and the maturing creator economy have created bottlenecks for brand deals. Creator commerce platform LTK wants to solve that problem by allowing brands to launch flat-fee campaigns that creators can opt in to as they see fit. The company has just released Quick Collabs, a feature in its platform for
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