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Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Marketing Week

Creators and AI, customer acquisition, inflation: 5 interesting stats to start your week

CMSWire

Customer Experience Isn’t Broken. Our Attention Is.

The world's noise just isn't going to stop any time soon. But as a CX leader, there are ways to cut through it and earn customer trust.Continue reading...

Social Media Today

Threads now offers simplified sharing to Instagram

A new share button allows users to add public content automatically to Instagram Stories, potentially increasing views per post.

Marketing Week

LinkedIn reach isn’t broken, it’s being replaced by real marketing

Lamenting your diminishing LinkedIn reach? It's not a bug in the system, it's the effect of too much content impacting its value. But there is a different approach.Source

Adweek

Business Dinners Are Too Long and Boring. Here’s How to Make Them Work.

We need to end the long, drawn-out, overly formal business dinner.

ON-DEMAND TRAINING

American Marketing Association

Brand Strategy 101

Learn how brand commitment, brand voice, design and implementation create the impactful brand strategy you need.

American Marketing Association

Introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This introductory training provides a foundational understanding of search engine optimization and its impact on content visibility.

Marketing Dive

Dentsu Entertainment, Iconic Arts partner to create brand-oriented IP

The companies will help brands develop original IP tied to culture, with a focus on anime and serialized entertainment.

Search Engine Roundtable

Google Email: Fake Or Incentivised Reviews Found On Your Business Profile

Google is now (past few weeks?) sending out emails when it detects fake or incentivised reviews on your Google Business Profile. Google also says it has removed the fake or incentivised reviews that were identified.

CMSWire

Your Customer Signals Aren’t the Problem. Your Operating Model Is.

Dashboards update instantly — but without decision rights, insight dies in reporting.Continue reading...

Digiday

As it ramps up push to fund AI bets, Meta makes a new play for agencies

Even in the age of Advantage+, Meta needs agencies.

Seth Godin Marketing

Blizzard pasttimes

Millions of folks are about to get snowed in. Stay safe. Here’s a code for last year’s Thriving with AI course on Udemy. It’s free for the first 1,000 people. And I see that This is Marketing is currently half-price on Amazon. Or you could build a snowman.

Digiday

Zero-click reality is rewriting the rules of search for brands

Search performance concerns have reached brand boardrooms. Both organic and paid search practitioners are scrambling to find effective responses to the questions posed by AI developments.

Adweek

HubSpot Acquires YouTube-Based