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Hi there, this is your daily ☕️ MarketingShot.
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In today's MarketingShot:
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🛒 AI shoppers pick their shortlist before your click 🗳️ Where brands are shifting Q4 ad spend around the midterms 💳 Meta is putting your marketing tools behind a paywall 🤝 Meta just made finding creators easier for you 📊 Chrome now scores ad load on your monetized pages Plus: 💡 6 strategies & tactics, 🎁 6 other news & articles you might like, and 🧰 7 trending marketing tools.
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The Future of AI in Marketing. Your Shortcut to Smarter, Faster Marketing.
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🛒 AI shoppers pick their shortlist before your click
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- Shopping assistants powered by AI are trimming choices down to a handful of products before a consumer reaches a retailer, turning a spot on that shortlist into a fresh contest between brands.
- A PYMNTS Intelligence report found 23% of United States consumers used AI for product discovery over the past year, while 93% of AI adopters who research purchases did the same, the only shopping activity showing real growth.
- Generative AI can pull information together around a shopper's needs, folding discovery, education and comparison into one conversation, so the competitive question for brands shifts from how highly they rank to whether they get mentioned at all.
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🗳️ Where brands are shifting Q4 ad spend around the midterms
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- Media buyers are moving more Q4 2026 spending into creators, publishers and sports for fast reach, while the midterms tighten local ad inventory and push commercial advertisers to lock in placements early.
- As shoppers ask ChatGPT and Gemini for recommendations, 76% of buyers say optimizing content for AI-generated answers is a growing focus, 54% are increasing creator and influencer partnerships, and 48% are turning to publishers with first-party data.
- AdImpact raised its 2025-26 election cycle forecast to $11.6 billion, with $5.6 billion going to broadcast television and $2.7 billion to connected TV, though buyers said the pressure mostly hits local brands that waited to buy.
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💳 Meta is putting your marketing tools behind a paywall
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- Meta is moving its more advanced marketing, analytics, AI and customer-service tools for creators and businesses across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp into paid tiers called Meta One, while keeping the core apps free.
- At the heart of the business plans is Meta Business Agent, an AI tool that answers customers around the clock on a business's behalf, with tiers split into Essential, Advanced, Expert and Max offering more access at higher levels.
- Meta has added more than 50 features across its subscription plans, recording 15 million subscriptions and trials so far, with Singapore business and creator plans starting at SG$17.99 a month and reaching SG$469 a month.
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🤝 Meta just made finding creators easier for you
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- Meta launched its new Creator Marketing hub on Tuesday, a platform that puts all of the company's discovery and outreach options for finding creators into a single interface.
- The hub, first announced in June, adds discovery filters with a predicted affiliate content search tool, content-level permissions with expiration dates, and ad editing features that let brands remove copyright-protected music or stickers.
- Meta built partnership messaging directly into the platform so brands can move from discovery to outreach in-stream, and it added its Meta AI business assistant chatbot to support creator discovery.
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📊 Chrome now scores ad load on your monetized pages
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- On September 15, Google added four new measurements to the Chrome User Experience Report that count the advertisements on every web page, covering ad count, ad density, ad weight in network bytes, and ad weight in processor milliseconds.
- Chrome collects no new data for this, reapplying what it gathers by sampling the viewport once per second and reporting at the seventy-fifth percentile, with advertisements identified through Google's proprietary ad filter list that publishers cannot audit.
- Aggregate reporting is limited to sites carrying an ads.txt file naming an authorised seller, so the dataset only covers the programmatically monetised web, and Google set no benchmarks and classified the metrics as experimental.
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How Jennifer Aniston’s LolaVie brand grew sales 40% with CTV ads
The DTC beauty category is crowded. To break through, Jennifer Aniston’s brand LolaVie, worked with Roku Ads Manager to easily set up, test, and optimize CTV ad creatives. The campaign helped drive a big lift in sales and customer growth, helping LolaVie break through in the crowded beauty category.
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Gemini 3.8 live powers Google Search live
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Reddit wants to be the human check on AI holiday shopping
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Riddle finds 78% of interactive content shares escape web analytics
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Perplexity is betting big on creators
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Thrad launches self-serve DSP giving marketers direct access to advertising inside LLMs
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Podcasts to take 48% of US digital audio ad spend by 2030, VAB report shows
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