⚠️ Meta introduces controversial auto-adjustments feature for ad accounts.

🖼️ Spotify now lets you create custom cover art for your playlists.

🌅 Opinion: The era of paid, ad-free social media Is here.

📌 These are the top takeaways from Advertising Week 2024.

😎 HEYDUDE partners with Jelly Roll for an empowering global campaign.

☝️ FYI: Federal Trade Commission announces final “Click-to-Cancel” rule.

⚡ How the Biden-Harris administration revitalized the White House’s digital strategy.

✈️ Meet Emma, Germany’s new AI travel influencer.

🤧 We’re loving Turner Duckworth’s Kleenex rebrand.

🏀 Nike found the perfect way to celebrate New York Liberty’s WNBA title.

Monday: Calendly surveyed 1,200 business leaders to better understand how meetings impact productivity, engagement, and workplace dynamics in 2024. Here’s what’s happening according to The State of Meetings Report.

• 💡 According to our poll, 60% of marketers aren’t currently using AI tools to summarize or optimize virtual meetings.

Tuesday: What can last year’s Cyber Week tell us about this year’s sales? Check out 2023 by the numbers to better understand how to prepare.

Wednesday: The best advertising emulates the platform on which it appears. If you want to increase conversions on social, lower CPAs, and build brand trust, it’s important that your paid social ads feel real and authentic. This is how to make paid social ads feel native.

Thursday: We know you’re seeing it, too. Brands are starting to cater to Gen Alpha’s frankly bizarre sense of humor, and it’s working. Let out a collective sigh, and let’s break down how they’re doing it.

• 💡 26% of poll respondents say Gen Alpha’s humor is more sophisticated than it seems, having roots in 20th century absurdism. 32% say its just Internet brain rot. And 42% say it’s none of their business because they’re old.

Can you solve this puzzle? 🥡

This week, a member of our Facebook community asked this question:

“Thoughts on boosting posts on LinkedIn? Is it worth it?”

Here’s what our group of experts have to say…

• “It works. I’ve used it for lead gen and webinar registrations for a tech company.”
• “Bid around $6 and adjust from there.”
• “10x the cost for 10% of the results of Meta.”
• 100% depends on your industry. I’ve used it for SaaS… It did well. Think about whether your target are the kind of people who spend time on LI.”

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Ingredients

• 3 oz vodka (2 shots)
• 3 oz pumpkin spice creamer (2 shots)
• 1.5 oz Kahlúa coffee liqueur (1 shot)
• Whipped cream optional, for garnish
• For the rim: 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice, 1 tsp sugar, 3 tbsp crushed graham cracker

Steps

1. Mix the ingredients for the rim together on a shallow plate. Dip the edge of two glasses in water and then dip into the graham mixture. Press to coat. Set the two glasses aside.
2. Pour vodka, creamer, and kahlua into a large cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake lightly until combined and cold.
3. Pour into glasses with ice and top with whipped cream and pumpkin pie spice.

Recipe by The Cookie Rookie

Answer: 2005.

The marketing holiday was coined by the National Retail Federation, which observed that people extended their holiday shopping while online at work on the Monday after Thanksgiving because Internet connection at work was better than at home for most consumers. And also because it’s fun, which is why we still do it.