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In today's MarketingShot:
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🍔 Google Maps is becoming a new ordering channel for restaurants 🛒 AI search is now sending you more sales 🎁 Why that AI brand deal could burn your credibility 🎬 Your next creators are already on payroll Plus: 💡 6 strategies & tactics, 🎁 7 other news & articles you might like, and 🧰 6 trending marketing tools.
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🍔 Google Maps is becoming a new ordering channel for restaurants
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- Google Maps is turning into a new ordering channel, as its "Ask Maps" feature gains agentic tools that let users order food, book hotels, and find event tickets directly in the app.
- After users ask Ask Maps for nearby restaurants and pick one, they can tap "Order online" to place an order through supported platforms like Square, Toast, or Uber Eats, with items added to a cart.
- Ask Maps also compares hotel prices and checks availability before linking to partner sites, and finds live music or comedy shows with links to buy tickets; these agentic features are rolling out to users in the U.S.
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🛒 AI search is now sending you more sales
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- Shopify reported that AI-driven traffic to merchant stores tripled year-over-year in the second quarter, with orders from those visits growing at the same pace while traditional search traffic from Google kept rising too.
- AI referrals send half of all sessions straight to product pages, 2.5 times the rate of conventional search, and 75 percent of AI-attributed purchases fell outside the platform's top 100 categories, helping smaller merchants.
- Shopify research found AI-referred visitors convert at nearly 50 percent higher rates than organic search shoppers and spend 14 percent more, with quarterly revenue reaching $3.6 billion, up 36 percent from a year earlier.
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🎁 Why that AI brand deal could burn your credibility
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- OpenAI's first US influencer trip, which flew creators to a luxury farm to try ChatGPT work tools, drew criticism that promoting the company could damage the creators' own credibility with their audiences.
- Creators shared the visit to Wildflower Farms in New York's Hudson Valley across Instagram and TikTok, but some viewers attacked them for backing a firm facing questions over environmental impact, labor practices, and copyright.
- Media intelligence firm CARMA found 59% of conversations about the activation were positive, though authenticity and AI ethics still shaped the criticism, showing sentiment volume alone did not settle the trust concerns.
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🎬 Your next creators are already on payroll
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- Gap has expanded its creator program to workers across Old Navy, Gap, Athleta, and Banana Republic, letting them earn commission by sharing personalized affiliate links on social media.
- Gap employees must apply like any other creator, be at least 18, and have a minimum of 500 followers on one account, then get brand content, affiliate linking, social-sharing tools, and free products.
- The wider program has generated nearly 30,000 unique posts reaching 154 million people since its launch last year, and the marketing SVP stressed it is voluntary, separate from regular jobs, with no quotas.
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Strategies & Tactics
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> Stop looking for the perfect attribution model: Combine several measurement methods instead of chasing one perfect attribution model, since each answers different revenue questions across today's long, multi-channel buying journeys.
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> Self reported attribution for AEO: Since AI assistants strip referrer data and make most brand discovery invisible to click tracking, simply asking buyers how they found you now captures far more attribution signal.
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Other
news & articles you might like
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Kroger’s AI shopping assistant has ads at launch
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What happens when AI Overviews contradict paid search ads?
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Sony is scaling up its Playstation advertising ambitions
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Microsoft Advertising adds excluded content terms for Audience Ads
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Online beauty sales grow 6x faster than in-store as AI discovery spreads
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PubMatic launches governance framework for ad agents
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BMW is forcing a weird Spider-Man ad onto its dashboard displays
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Trending Marketing Tools
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Honestly: aggregates verified customer conversations from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit and X to reveal market trends before competitors catch on.
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ClawTeams: lets business teams upload raw data and get automated, enterprise-grade reports with visualizations and insights, no SQL or coding required.
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Fedica 2.0: a social suite that schedules posts across 12+ networks and tracks audience-level analytics beyond follower counts, unifying replies in one inbox.
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Denovo: generates a conversion-ready website with Stripe integration, then automates outreach via email campaigns to 100M leads and Meta ads setup.
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AutoEdit: automates rough cuts in Premiere Pro by removing silences, filler words, and repeated takes, then auto-generates captions for you.
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