• Here’s why Under Armour’s AI-driven commercial sparked a controversy about creativity and credit.
• Getty has made 88k images free to use, even for commercial purposes.
• LinkedIn is testing in-app gaming experiences.
• Spotify’s Daylist is a meme and a marketing tool.

Bonus: ICYMI, we built our own version of the NYT Connections puzzle. This week’s theme is Digital Marketing. If you try it, share your results and tag us on LinkedIn.

Monday: Later this month, LinkedIn will expand the Thought Leader Ad format so that advertisers can sponsor content from members that aren’t necessarily employees.

Tuesday: Instead of churning out content for pins, think of Pinterest as the ultimate channel for repurposing what you’ve already built to drive web traffic.

Wednesday: Advergaming has a long tradition—from Atari in the 80s and CD-ROMS in the 90s to flash web games in the 00s and smart phone apps today. What kind of advergame will work best for your brand?

Thursday: What comes first, design or copy? At Carney, we think of the relationship between copy and design as similar to electromagnetic waves, or “electric and magnetic fields dancing together in a pas de deux.”

Ashley asked, “What do you all use to send out your company newsletters?”

Allyn asked, “Can you suggest a hashtag tracker/social viewing tool (ideally free, preferably low cost) that you like?”

Sara asked, “Have you ever run a marketing campaign / created a marketing ‘moment’ of any kind in a closed platform or private community—for example, a FB Group, a Discord channel, a Telegram chat, a Geneva channel, or a private community of any description?”

Carrie asked, “Any recommendations for a great tool to keep an editorial calendar?”

Here’s what we learned about The Daily Carnage community this week:

• 46% of marketers report that their organizations have no plans to increase first-party data sets in response to cookie deprecation. 7% of marketers are holding off reacting until next year.
• The majority (59%) of marketers feel positively about the Impossible Foods’ red rebrand, which aims to reach new customers beyond its historically academic, green-conscious target.
• 65% of marketers feel negatively about the generic branding and long-winded name of Meghan Markle’s new luxury lifestyle venture.

Ingredients

• ½ oz Tropical Passionfruit Syrup
• 1 oz blended Scotch
• 1 oz Cachaça
• 2 dashes Boker’s bitters

Steps

1. Add all to a mixing glass with ice.
2. Stir for 20 seconds and strain into a chilled coupe.
3. Express an orange peel and garnish.

Recipe by Liber and Co.

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When we’re not dishing you the best of marketing every day, we’re designing and developing new projects for clients on earth and in space.

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