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🎬 YouTube finds creators now use AI to express identity ⚠️ Meta makes you liable for its AI ad edits on October 30 📉 Your ad returns shrank even as spend doubled, Metricool finds 🎨 Canva's new Craft model builds marketing images you can edit 📺 LinkedIn now lets you target streaming TV ads in the US Plus: 💡 6 strategies & tactics, 🎁 6 more stories you might like, and 🧰 7 trending marketing tools.
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🎬 YouTube finds creators now use AI to express identity
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- YouTube's Human Creativity and AI report found that creators and hobbyists now use generative AI video to explore identity, show emotion, and join shared interests, rather than treating the technology mainly as a way to make content faster.
- The research, run with NRG among thousands of online people aged 14 to 44, found that 72% of surveyed video posters use AI on videos or images, and more than two-thirds of AI video posters have featured themselves in that content.
- Trends like "hug your younger self," where creators animate childhood images, turn private feelings into shared social moments, which means platforms and brands will need to treat generative video as social expression, not just a production feature.
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⚠️ Meta makes you liable for its AI ad edits on October 30
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- Starting on October 30, 2026, advertisers on Facebook and Instagram will be "solely responsible" for anything Meta's AI features create or alter in their ads, under Meta's revised Commercial Terms, even for features Meta switches on itself.
- Adweek found a new "AI Features" section in the terms that extends liability whether or not the advertiser opted in, a shift from earlier wording that applied only when a business chose to use the Ad Creative AIs.
- Agencies say Meta's tools already add sitelinks, translate copy and generate images in live campaigns without permission; the one exit is to stop running ads, since continued use after October 30 counts as agreement.
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📉 Your ad returns shrank even as spend doubled, Metricool finds
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- Metricool's 2026 Social Media Ads Report found that return on ad spend fell from $5.48 to $4.57 in a year, even as advertisers more than doubled their spending.
- Over the same period, total revenue grew from $344.8 million to $694.4 million, so advertisers brought in more money overall while each dollar spent returned less than before.
- The largest accounts posted a ROAS of just $3.96, lower than even the smallest ones, which the report ties to audience saturation, rising acquisition costs, and diminishing returns as campaigns scale.
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🎨 Canva's new Craft model builds marketing images you can edit
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- Canva has launched Craft, an image generation model built in-house for design work, that makes marketing graphics which stay editable inside its platform rather than fixed, flattened pictures.
- Craft runs in two stages: one model turns a prompt into a plan for visual hierarchy, placement, scale and typography, then a second model renders the image, producing 2K output across more than 30 aspect ratios.
- Craft is available now in Dream Lab and through Canva's public API, while Canva MCP support, plus faster Craft-fast and Craft-ultrafast variants, is still coming, so it does not yet work inside every third-party assistant.
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📺 LinkedIn now lets you target streaming TV ads in the US
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- LinkedIn has opened its Connected TV advertising to programmatic buying through Google's Display & Video 360, so advertisers can apply its professional targeting, such as job title, industry and seniority, to streaming inventory inside Google's demand-side platform.
- The route works only for United States audiences, and buyers reach business decision makers across premium streaming inventory through Microsoft Monetize, with LinkedIn supplying the audience data and Display & Video 360 acting as the buying interface.
- Access is not self-serve, requiring advertisers to contact a LinkedIn or Google account representative, and neither company published pricing, minimum spend or audience size terms for this specific route.
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Meetings and webinars, free for up to 100 people. Zoho Meeting is a secure video platform that does what Zoom charges extra for. Full webinars, screen sharing, and AI-generated meeting notes. • Free plan: HD video, screen sharing, and up to 100 participants per meeting or webinar • AI-generated transcripts and summaries that capture the meeting so you don't take notes • Real webinars. Registration forms, polls, Q&A, and YouTube live-streaming |
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YouTube AI Search: What gets B2B videos cited (Data)
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AI boosts discovery but reviews still seal the deal, new research shows
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Marketers hit with largest drop in consumer confidence since Covid
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AI brand recommendations vary by platform and week: Study
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Budget-limited campaigns lost their 20% ROAS surplus in 3 weeks, smec finds
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YouTube’s redesigned mobile UI puts custom feeds front and center
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