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STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Turns out the secret to AI search visibility is the advice your high school English teacher kept repeating. Have something worth saying: Google’s VP of Search, Liz Reid, says it comes down to two moves: Open your pages to Google’s crawlers. Publish material that readers will value. Reid was blunt about slop. If your article... The post Google’s new AI search rules appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 29, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Good morning. We don’t know about you, but this heatwave is hitting The Crew hard. We’ve tried everything: ice packs, cold brew, sheer willpower. There’s a silver lining, though. We’re remote, so we get to melt in the comfort of our own air-conditioned homes instead of an office.... The post 🗣️Algorithm. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Clearly, Meta has been watching Love Island. Because it wants to pull you for a chat: The platform is testing new controls that lets you shape the algorithm depending on what you want to see more of. The proposed features include a pull-down panel from the home screen, topic controls between Reels, and conversational prompts... The post Instagram wants you to chat with its algorithm, YouTube turns comments into audience research appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! This thing runs but cannot walk, sometimes sings but never talks. Lacks arms, has hands; lacks a head but has a face. What is it? The post Brain Teaser – 29 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Skynet, but make it a marketing stack. Lights, camera, comeback: Creator Studio returns as an AI app that lines up your daily priorities, tracks your goals, and drafts comment replies in your voice. You stay authentic, you save time, and you approve everything before it posts. It’s in early access now, so hop on the... The post Meta goes all-in on AI, from creator tools to content review appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! It’s patch day, and Google’s changelog reads longer than the update you keep snoozing. Demand Gen got a makeover: It can now reshape your video from vertical to square to landscape, so one upload fits every placement. Gemini will also recommend ways to sharpen your YouTube creative, and new insights will show whether customers are... The post Demand Gen glow-up, agency tools, an AI Overviews escape hatch, and a fresh spam update appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 26, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Friday. Do you want to continue getting our newsletter? Then please click this link so we know you’re still here. Since Apple Mail’s update, we can’t know for certain if it’s you or Apple opening our newsletter, and we don’t want to clog your inbox. … And... The post 🪭 Query. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! What is brown and has a head and a tail, but no legs. The post Brain Teaser – 26 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Snapchat says its users just love hanging out there. Time well spent, allegedly: The platform has shared a new report arguing that its users are uniquely primed to welcome your brand. The Snap-commissioned study claims roughly three in four users consider their time on the app “meaningful,” the highest score among major platforms. It says... The post Snapchat highlights its user engagement, while Pinterest showcases in-app trends appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 24, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Good morning. Apparently, some people can thrive on 4-5 hours of sleep every day. They wake up refreshed. Energized. Ready. If you’re one of the lucky few, please tell us your secret. We’ll be over here, on cup number three. ADVERTISING Just in: YouTube insights, advanced ad features... The post ▶️ Trends. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! YouTube’s picking up on hints. Reading the room: Google announced at Cannes Lions that you can now see new trending insights on the platform in Google Ads Insights Finder. This means you can search what’s gaining traction by topic, location, and demographic. You can also get fresh data on creators open to brand partnerships and... The post Just in: YouTube insights, advanced ad features for Meta, and more creation tools for TikTok appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 18, 2026 Share on Sponsored by FROM THE CREW Happy Thursday. We seriously struggled to come up with a witty intro today. What you’re reading now is our fourth attempt. Persistence: it works for newsletter intros and marketers alike. Onward. Reading time: 4 minutes, 45 seconds SPONSORED BY HUBSPOT The essential apps you need... The post 🧠 Anticipation Effect. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! I have forests but no trees.I have lakes but no water.I have roads but no cars. What am I? The post Brain Teaser – 24 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Two platforms, two very different flexes: One hired a whole AI crew, the other just discovered captions can be plural. Snapchat showed up to show-and-tell with a full toolkit: It’s got a bunch of new AI ad features led by a chatbot in Ads Manager that turns your goals into a tailored setup. Describe what... The post Snapchat leans on AI for ads, while Instagram makes carousels finally make sense appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Google’s doing your busywork while you nap this week. Your campaigns just got a co-pilot: Ask Ad Manager now troubleshoots your campaigns and reads your performance data from inside the platform without any report-building. If you want to know why a line item flopped, just ask it. It digs into your data and answers back.... The post Google hands you an AI co-pilot and free first-party audiences appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 22, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Good morning. Can someone vibe code an app that makes the weekend last longer? We’d pay good money for it. We’d also pay good money to stop saying “vibe code,” but here we are. Until then, we’ll settle for a strong cup of coffee. Let’s get into the... The post 📝 Carousels. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! I have keys without key locks. I have space without rooms. You can enter but you cannot go outside. What am I? The post Brain Teaser – 22 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 19, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Friday. Quick pro tip before you dive in: when you actually rest, rest. Don’t doomscroll Reels. Don’t grind that mobile game. Don’t fall into a Reddit thread reading essays. Just step outside and breathe. Take a nap if you can. Your brain does its best work after... The post 💔 Competitor favoring. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Turns out the internet’s front page doubles as its fitting room. Lurkers before they leap: A fresh Reddit study with WPP surveyed 13,000+ users and found that 77% of Redditors hop across two or more communities before they buy. Why it matters: Most marketing playbooks chase awareness and buzz. But the actual yes-or-no moment happens... The post Buyers are making up their minds, so meet them mid-decision appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Turns out being “seen” isn’t the same as being “chosen.” The plot twist nobody asked for: Google’s AI Overviews recommend your competitors 69% of the time, even when they cite your own self-promotional “best” listicle. Lily Ray studied 100 B2B “best [category] software” queries across three dates. Of the 80 that triggered an AI Overview,... The post AI Overviews may be favouring your competitors, and Customer Match goes auto-classified appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! The leaves are on the fruit, The fruit is on the leaves. What is it? The post Brain Teaser – 19 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 17, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Wednesday. Okay, okay. It’s officially happening. One company cleared a major FDA safety hurdle for the first-ever lifespan extension drug. For dogs. Apparently, one pill a day could buy your old buddy a few more good years. So we’re raising a glass to science. And to all... The post ♾️ AI answers. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Turns out everyone wants to be the place you ask questions. Ask, and ye shall receive…a Meta AI answer: Facebook launched AI Mode in search and now answers questions with AI-generated responses. These outputs are pulled from public posts, Groups, and Reels instead of the usual link list. “Real answers from real people,” as Meta... The post Facebook uses AI mode to answer user questions, Threads celebrates a milestone with new features appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Turns out the platform that perfected the humblebrag also wants to make you better at your job. Class is now in session: LinkedIn and Adobe’s new AI Essentials for Marketers hands you four role-based courses to sharpen up, free on LinkedIn Learning. The courses cover digital marketing, content creation, social, and analytics. All of it... The post Get to grips with AI training courses, plus target B2B users sharper via Microsoft Ads appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 10, 2026 Share on Sponsored by FROM THE CREW Happy Thursday. Quick poll: how many browser tabs are open on your screen right now? If the answer is “don’t ask,” you’re officially one of us. Let’s dive in. Reading time: 4 minutes, 45 seconds SPONSORED BY HUBSPOT HubSpot AEO is here! Picture this. A... The post 🧠 Pain of Paying. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! There’s an 8-letter word that can lose a letter and still make a word. Take another letter away and it makes another word. Keep doing that until you have one letter left—and it still makes a word. What is the word? The post Brain Teaser – 17 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 15, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Monday. What a time to be alive. Last week, Anthropic released an AI model it described as “too powerful to release” and then had to… well, reverse it. Meanwhile, a Caribbean island of 160.000 people scored their first-ever World Cup goal. Oh, and Japanese researchers just began... The post 🌅 Christmas. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! It’s only June, but the retail world runs on its own calendar. In it, “halfway through the year” really means “the holidays are next week.” Christmas starts now: Meta’s new 34-page holiday marketing guide treats Q4 success as months of groundwork, not a frantic November scramble. The roadmap breaks down like this: Q2: Build your... The post Meta says Christmas prep starts now, Microsoft Ads makes it easier to browse your product catalog appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Turns out closing deals is less Glengarry Glen Ross and more group therapy. Confidence sells: A new LinkedIn and Bain & Company report shows B2B buying runs on emotion, and logic just shows up later to defend the call. LinkedIn calls it “Buyability,” a model built on the idea that committees are who you’re really... The post B2B buyers want to buy a safe product more than the best product appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! When young, I am sweet in the sun.When middle-aged, I make you happy.When old, I am valued more than ever. What am I? The post Brain Teaser – 15 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 12, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Friday. Funny how it works. We sit at our laptops for hours, and nothing. Then we close them, brush our teeth, get in bed… and boom. Headline ideas. Campaign angles. Entire newsletters. Our best work happens precisely when we can’t write any of it down. Anyway, this... The post 📍 Amazon pins. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! The algorithm is asking for your notes. Instagram’s in particular: Your Algorithm controls have expanded to the main feed, so you can view, remove, and add the topics that drive recommendations across Feed, Reels, and Explore. Before, the system learned only from what you tapped, watched, and shared. Now you can tell it straight up... The post Your audience now tells Instagram what they want, a new holiday guide, and features to take advantage of the World Cup appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! The online high street just got the coolest new store. Pin it, then cash it: Pinterest’s new Amazon Storefront linking lets eligible creators auto-apply affiliate links to their Pins. No manual IDs, no fuss. For the uninitiated, Amazon Storefront lets creators build a curated shop of recommended products and earn commissions on sales. Now those... The post Your customers can now shop from Amazon through Pinterest, and LinkedIn launches its own creator marketplace appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I? The post Brain Teaser – 12 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 4, 2026 Share on Sponsored by FROM THE CREW Happy Thursday. Here’s a reminder from The Crew: nobody orders the cheapest wine, and nobody orders the priciest one either. The bottle in the middle wins by default. Why? Keep reading. Reading time: 5 minutes, 15 seconds SPONSORED BY MINDSTREAM Five minutes a day to... The post 🧠 Compromise effect. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Instagram doesn’t want anyone to feel left out. The whole class gets invited: Every advertiser worldwide can now run post-view ads inside Reels, a placement that drops between organic clips and rolls out over the next few days. These auto-play spots show up only after Reels longer than 60 seconds. Viewers get a 5-second countdown... The post Post-view Reels ads go global, you can now reorder your profile grid, and Snapchat says video ads gain the most attention appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Just like the VIP area, the more important things get more space. Real estate is everything: Google’s testing a Top pages format that gives your most important pages extra room inside sponsored listings. These look a lot like sitelinks, but they carry a Top pages label and surface the links Google considers your domain’s heavy... The post Sponsored links get more breathing space, how to fix your ad disapprovals, and YouTube hides the dislike button appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 10, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy hump day, Here’s a pro tip you didn’t ask for: if the weather’s nice, take your reading outside. Something about the smell of spring mixing with the smell of a good book is dangerously good. Borderline addictive, even. We’d warn you about the risks, but there aren’t... The post 🔢 Grid. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Which of the following words don’t belong in the group and why? CORSET, COSTER, SECTOR, ESCORT, COURTS The post Brain Teaser – 10 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Two ad platforms just threw open their doors, and the paint’s still wet. Across the pond: ChatGPT now runs ads in the UK, and the rollout is moving fast enough to catch advertisers flat-footed. The rules are strict. Ads only serve to users who explicitly opt in and consent is the legal basis under GDPR.... The post ChatGPT open new ad doors, Microsoft just freed crypto exchanges from Search-only limits appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Someone is Googling more than you. And they ain’t human: Cloudflare CEO says bots now make up the majority of web requests, pulling 57% of the world’s web traffic versus 43% for us humans. Where a shopper pokes around five sites, an agent blitzes through thousands, piling on server load without the clicks, ad views,... The post Bots own the web, intent now beats authority, and Google trusts no one’s tools but its own appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 8, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Monday. We don’t know about you, but we’re approaching that time of year where stepping outside feels like opening a preheated oven. And we are not ready. We are not. Somewhere between “it’s a dry heat” and “at least it’s not humid,” we’ve lost the will to... The post 🌐 Bots googling. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! How can you make seven even? The post Brain Teaser – 8 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! When it’s just you and Bob managing the company content, it can feel like quite the undertaking. Now your team can get bigger: Meet Meta’s new Creator Assistant. Live in the Facebook creator dashboard, it answers questions about your performance, spots trends, and tailors advice to your audience, without you having to copy anything over.... The post Meta is handing you an AI content team, a 24/7 customer agent, and a paid Instagram tier appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Google just handed you your own corner of Search to decorate. Turns out AI Overviews weren’t the end of the story: Google is testing social-style Search profiles that let you spotlight your articles, videos, and posts in one place. Kind of like Google Business Profiles, but for creators and media brands. These profiles feed straight... The post Google tests social-search profiles and Bing introduced bigger favicons for paid ads appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 5, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Friday. We never thought we’d write the words “a baby received Botox” and have it be the most wholesome thing we’ve read all week. But here we are. A Texas family just shared the story of their newborn, whose life was saved by an in-utero Botox procedure.... The post 👩💼 AI teammembers. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and a half goat? The post Brain Teaser – 5 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 27, 2026 Share on Sponsored by FROM THE CREW Happy Thursday. We counted seven “thought leaders” in our feed before finishing coffee this morning. We’re still recovering. Today’s newsletter, mercifully, contains zero of them. Just science. Reading time: 5 minutes, 15 seconds SPONSORED BY STACK INFLUENCE Social proof beats persuasion. A real person holding... The post 🧠 Base Rate Neglect. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Instead of burning a hole in your keyboard, just speak what’s on your mind. Reaction culture found a new toy: X’s React with Video feature lets you record overlay reactions directly inside the app. It comes with background removal, picture-in-picture, and split-screen built in. Record, pause, preview, and publish as a reply. Done. Commentary-style video... The post Video reactions on X, Instagram helps you organise your Reels, and Meta’s AI got played by hackers appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Now you’ll know why your organic traffic tanked. …or at least that’s what you can tell your clients: Search Console now shows how your site performs inside AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover. What the report covers: impressions, pages, countries, devices, and dates. What it omits: click data and query-level metrics. You’ll know if you’re... The post Google finally shows you your AI search performance, and quietly expands AI ads appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 3, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Wednesday. Are you one of those people who sets a yearly reading challenge? Fiction, nonfiction, the works? We don’t. Tried it once. Somehow ended up reading less. Turns out slapping a number on a hobby is a great way to turn it into homework. Some metrics are... The post 📈 AI Overviews. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! What falls but never breaks? What breaks but never falls? The post Brain Teaser – 3 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Google’s May 2026 core update threw your rankings on a rollercoaster. Buckle up: Rolling out from May 21st, it triggered two waves of volatility before a third spike last weekend hinted the ride is nearly over. Google called it a routine relevance update. Two weeks of turbulence beg to differ. And big Google is always... The post Google’s core update is still rolling, lead tracking gets smarter, AI Max adds branded search control appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! For long-form content, the (Blue)sky’s the limit. Bringing blogging back? Through Bluesky’s Standard.site integration, you can now distribute long-form content across its network of 44.5M users. Each piece of content surfaces as a link card inside the app, so readers can find your work without leaving the platform. The biggest draw? Open protocol. Bluesky lets... The post Bluesky goes long, TikTok Shop expands in Europe, and Reddit teams up with Shopify appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! June 1, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Monday. Question: Do you use Apple Mail Privacy Protection? Still want to get our newsletter? Then please click this link so we know you’re still here. That way we don’t unsubscribe you by accident… which would be very sad. SOCIAL MEDIA Bluesky goes long, TikTok Shop expands... The post 🦋 Going long. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! What has many keys, but can’t even open a single door? The post Brain Teaser – 1 June appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! MetaAI woke up today and decided to join us in 2026. No more screenshotting everything like it’s 2019: Meta AI can now read your PDFs, spreadsheets, and briefs inside WhatsApp. The feature appears in the in-chat attachment menu and is currently live for some beta testers on iOS and Android, with a broader rollout coming... The post WhatsApp reads your files, Instagram and Threads help you find your audience, Reddit goes visual appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Give your data a sniff. Does it smell off to you? Your ads history has an expiry date: Google Ads will start deleting sub-monthly reporting data older than 37 months from June 2026. Hourly, daily, and weekly performance records: Gone. Monthly and annual data survives for 11 years, but reach and frequency metrics get a... The post Google tightens its grip on three fronts, ChatGPT turns on cost-per-action appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 29, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Friday. Remember Monday, when we said this week had good vibes written all over it? Well, it turns out we were right. At least on our end. We hope the same goes for you. And if it doesn’t, well… Friday is basically knocking on the door. So... The post ✊🏽Grip tightens. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. what is it? The post Brain Teaser – 29 May appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 20, 2026 Share on Sponsored by FROM THE CREW Happy Thursday. Here’s a reminder from The Crew: “growth hack” is not a personality trait, no matter what your LinkedIn feed insists. Onto the science. Reading time: 5 minutes, 03 seconds SPONSORED BY AWIN If your affiliate platform just told you there’s a forced migration... The post 🧠Presenter’s paradox. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 27, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy hump day. Someone told us that today is the National Flip Flop Day. Okay, who petitioned for that? But on the other hand, if that’s a sign of the day you’re going to have… it can’t be bad. Flip flops are the unofficial mascot of low-effort confidence,... The post 🤖 Localization. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Perhaps the most valuable thing on the internet isn’t your product, but the conversations people have about it… …At least it is for AI: We mentioned Forum the other day, but as it turns out, the motivation behind Meta’s new app is generating vetted Q&A content that fuels AI models. It’s essentially Meta’s attempt to... The post Meta wants your Q&As, Reddit is powering AI answers, and X is improving incentives for original creators appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! You better get your coffee ready. There’s a lot of Google news coming up… Hola, Guten Tag, konnichiwa: Google’s AI Mode has reached 1B monthly users and is already live across multiple countries and languages. International audiences are already searching this way; the rollout just made it official. This makes it easier to create content... The post Know your global customer, go deeper than AI, tighten your ad data, and more appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I? The post Brain Teaser – 27 May appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! As national team coaches are naming their World Cup squads, in boardrooms worldwide, marketing directors are naming their budgets. The 2026 World Cup is the biggest sporting event in human history. 6 billion expected viewers. 39 days. And enough ad dollars flying around to make your eyes water. If you’re thinking about advertising, here’s a... The post How to approach World Cup as a marketer, according to data appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 25, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Monday. Ever had that feeling at the start of the week that it’s just going to be a good one… for no particular reason? We have it today. No data to back it up, of course. Kind of like when you test a new campaign on vibes... The post 🗣️ Forum. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Word of mouth is getting a group chat. Where are your customers lurking? Forum is Facebook’s new standalone app where the only thing in the feed is the conversation. What this means: Meta wants group discussions to compete with dedicated community platforms. And built-in AI search lets users pull answers from every group they’re in... The post Meta’s “Forum” and TikTok Shop’s success prove the same thing: Community sells appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Gen Z are no longer asking their Mom. They ask YouTube. And so does everyone else: 2.58B people use the platform every month, and a surprising number of them are shopping. The average session runs 14 minutes and 29 seconds, nearly double TikTok’s. That’s 14 minutes of someone actively looking for what to watch, buy,... The post YouTube is now the top product discovery platform appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Two mothers and two daughters go to a pet store and buy three cats. Each female gets her own cat. How is this possible? The post Brain Teaser – 25 May appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Google Marketing Live. The Coachella for marketing nerds. We’ve brought the roundup. The Sabrina Carpenter: Google rebuilt its ad formats for AI-first Search with Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads. This makes ads more a part of the conversation rather than interruptors. And connect a shopper’s first question to their final purchase.... The post Google comes a step closer to running ads without you appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! We’re going to give you a cake, but don’t even think about eating it. The platform is pulling in two directions: Restricting AI-generated content that lacks a human perspective while building AI writing tools directly into its composer. Global Editorial VP Laura Lorenzetti says: “When AI is overused, especially at scale, it dilutes the valuable... The post LinkedIn wants less AI, gets cited by AI anyway, and checks your ad receipts appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 22, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Good morning. Somewhere between your last meeting and right now, Friday snuck up and tapped you on the shoulder. The weekend’s almost here. And the best way to kick it off is showing up already knowing everything that happened in marketing this week. Consider this your briefing. GOOGLE... The post 📊 Without you. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it? The post Brain Teaser – 22 May appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 13, 2026 Share on Sponsored by FROM THE CREW Happy Thursday. Bad news travels fast. Good news takes the scenic route, stops for coffee, and gets distracted by a podcast. That’s just how our brains are wired. And once you understand it, you’ll never look at your marketing the same way again. Buckle up,... The post 🧠Negativity Bias. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! We know you usually want to skip the recap, but this is one you’ll want to catch. Here’s the headline: The 2026 Meta Summit shows that the brands growing fastest right now are blending measurement discipline and creator-led chaos. On the measurement side: Always-on incrementality testing, media mix models, and geo-holdout experiments running continuously. On... The post How businesses grow on Meta, new creator publishing tools, and brand safety comes to Threads appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Trigger warning. Christmas is about to be mentioned. Santa’s summer bod: Pinterest says brands running shopping campaigns for six months or more see 33% higher ROAS than those who wait. The case for early Christmas… The longer your campaigns run, the better Pinterest’s algorithm gets at matching your products to the right people. Lower costs... The post Plan early on Pinterest, X limits free posting, and creator spend hits the big leagues appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 20, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Good morning. Twenty-two years of near-misses, gut-punches, and “maybe next season.” Arsenal FC’s fans have seen it all. Then, finally, they’ve seen their team win the title. Marketers, take note: the strategy that feels like it’s going nowhere is sometimes the one that’s about to go everywhere. Patience... The post 🗻 Summit. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday. How did he do that? The post Brain Teaser – 20 May appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Google just dropped its official AI ranking guidance, and the twist is the same as every other. Breaking news: Nothing changed. Kind of… Solid SEO fundamentals still run the show. Good content, a site that works, a smooth user experience. That’s the meat and potatoes of running a healthy site. However, the myth-busting section alone... The post An AI ranking update says stop chasing shortcuts and do the SEO basics better appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! No one thought Blockbuster would go out of business. But here we are. Is Search heading the same way? Meta’s new 3-part series research shows Google searches per US user are down nearly 20% year-over-year. Most brands are only showing up for half of where people now look. According to Meta, the reason is that... The post Short-form may be eating search, Instagram now lets you fix your Stories appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 18, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Good morning. We ran a little experiment over at Tactics, our AI tips newsletter: we asked AI to write us a theme song. The result? An absolute banger. We’re not proud of how much we’ve had it on repeat this weekend, but here we are. Humans make better... The post Short form 🥊Search. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Sara has four daughters, and each of her daughters has a brother. How many children does Sara have? The post Brain Teaser – 18 May appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Three platforms decided the funnel was taking too long. ChatGPT is cutting straight to the sale: You can now plug product feeds directly into ChatGPT, which auto-generates ads from existing names, images, and attributes. How it works: Similar to Google Shopping’s feed model, but ads surface based on conversational intent rather than keywords. You’ll set... The post The discovery and purchase are merging: ChatGPT, LinkedIn, and TikTok all want to close the deal appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes words are pretty helpful. A story per slide: Instagram is testing per-slide captions for carousel posts, meaning each image or video can carry its own text instead of sharing one caption block. Think of the opportunities. Product showcases where each slide calls out a... The post Just in: Instagram’s per-slide captions, Whop’s ad tools, and Meta’s AI that buys for your customers appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 13, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Good morning. Some people are allergic to cold temperatures. Others, to vibrations. One particularly unlucky group? Water. The human body contains, on average, 60% water. You do the math. We’re just grateful our only known allergy is bad creative briefs. BUSINESS The discovery and purchase are merging: ChatGPT,... The post Discovery 🫱🏼🫲🏼 Purchase. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 6, 2026 Share on Sponsored by FROM THE CREW Happy Thursday. Coffee count today: five. Regrets: zero. Productivity: debatable. Newsletter quality: you tell us. Let’s dive in. Reading time: 4 minutes, 09 seconds SPONSORED BY AI SKILLS Why calling it a “Blanket” makes a $120k snow storage investment feel reasonable The Hustle uncovers the... The post 🧠Self-Serving Bias. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! It’s raining at midnight, but the forecast for tomorrow and the next day is clear. Will there be sunny weather in 48 hours? The post Brain Teaser – 13 May appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 11, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Monday. Imagine your physical mailbox was like your inbox. The door won’t close. Flyers escaping onto the lawn. Your mail carrier has filed a formal complaint. The neighbors are talking… Still feels less stressful than opening your email, somehow. SOCIAL MEDIA TikTok’s new ad tier, Amazon’s short-form... The post 🤳🏻Ad free. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! If you’re prone to monologuing, Threads is all ears. Cleaning up your word vomit: The platform now auto-splits long pasted text into linked posts, so you can maintain a consistent presence without manually chopping up your content. Animated stickers are also in testing, letting you add visuals designed to make posts pop. At least until... The post Removing friction everywhere: easier posting, autonomous shopping agents, and more appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Paying to dodge ads is now a social media personality trait. TikTok is no different: The platform has launched an ad-free subscription tier in the UK for £3.99/month, rolling out gradually to users 18 and over. If the experiment works, the ad pool will shrink with paying subscribers opting out. But those who stay on... The post TikTok’s new ad tier, Amazon’s short-form feed, and YouTube’s subscriber reshuffle appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! What has one head, one foot, and four legs? The post Brain Teaser – 11 May appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Ads are coming from inside the chatbot. A new friend for your media mix: OpenAI launched a self-serve ads manager in beta in the US, which will allow you to set up your campaigns right away. What’s included: Self-serve buying, measurement tools, bidding options, and third-party attribution. A strong infrastructure to back OpenAI’s claims about... The post ChatGPT ads are now open for testing appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! The internet never sleeps, and neither does your to-do list. Snapchat’s growth numbers are doing a lot of PR work: The platform added 9M daily active users, bringing the number up to 483M. Good news? Partly. Every single one came from low-revenue regions, while North America and the EU both lost users. Oof. Snap’s Dynamic... The post Snap’s reach is shrinking, TikTok’s comments are driving sales, and Reddit’s gaining financial clout appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 8, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy Friday. Friendly reminder that we fixed our Advertise With Us form. And we do mean friendly. As in, it works now. If you tried in the last month or so and got nowhere, that wasn’t you. That was us. We’ve since had a word with ourselves. So... The post 🤖 Testing’s open. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! You’re in a room with no windows and no doors.All you have is a mirror and a table.How do you get out? The post Brain Teaser -8 May appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! May 6, 2026 Share on Sponsored by Happy hump day. Turns out our Advertise With Us form has been broken for a while. We just found out and we’re not proud of it. But here we are, being transparent about our technical mishaps like adults. The good news? It’s fixed now. So if you tried... The post 🛍️ Buying mode. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! April 29, 2026 Share on Sponsored by FROM THE CREW Happy Thursday. If you’ve ever rewritten the same headline 14 times, you’re legally part of The Crew now. Welcome! Talking about group identity… Reading time: 5 minutes, 02 seconds SPONSORED BY AI SKILLS Skip the AI hype. Get 5+ hours of practical use cases from... The post 🧠 Identity threat. appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! My thunder comes before the lightning;My lightning comes before the clouds;My rain dries all the land it touches.What am I? The post Brain Teaser -6 May appeared first on Stacked Marketer.
STACKED MARKETER - The marketer's #1 daily newsletter! Background music has been giving creators serious foreground problems. Those days could be over: YouTube is testing an AI music generator inside YouTube Studio that produces four royalty-free instrumental tracks on demand. Meaning, you can swap out copyright-flagged audio without losing your video or your monetization. You can find it inside the existing Replace Song... The post Two new safety nets save you from copyright strikes on YouTube and negative keyword fumbles in Ads appeared first on Stacked Marketer.