Here's a countdown for small brands covering press+PR, SM, email, retail partnerships, direct mail and the overlooked ideas that can make a small brand memorable laid out in an easy to follow calendar and daily task form. Jump in anytime! boxwoodco.substack.com/p/100-days-o.... #marketingsky

So simple and so accurate - I love this quote from Allison Ellsworth co-founder of Poppi as told to Fortune in a recent interview.

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#ChatGPT get image ads (US test during image generation), more measurement partners and brand suitability pilots with DV and IAS. The harder problem remains: one ad slot and about 2.5B daily prompts vs. 15B Google searches. #OpenAI #MarketingSky

The best #EmailMarketing flows notice what customers stop doing: a skipped setup step, usage dropping before renewal, no payment update after a declined card. Silence is a signal. Measure it against what's normal. #MarketingSky #Automation

Google says it ships more spam updates because there's so much more new content, and it now uses AI to catch it. The warning from Search Central Live: scaled content is becoming a bigger problem than link spam. #SEO #MarketingSky

Google #AIOverviews now appear on 80%+ of tracked branded queries, up from about 26% in early September (DemandSphere data). Ranking for your own brand name no longer guarantees the click. Start tracking what AI says about you. #SEO #MarketingSky

#Meta's Muse agent will be able to find products, negotiate prices and check out on any #Shopify store with Shop Pay. Amazon asked to be removed. When #AI agents shop for people, listings must be optimized for bots too. #MarketingSky #AgenticCommerce

Marketo co-founder Jon Miller launched Phave, a #B2B marketing automation platform that swaps rigid if/then rules for #AI reasoning, treats buying groups as first-class objects and exposes 319 tools via MCP. #MarketingSky #MarTech

Your brand story is strong in the lobby.

Online, guests still default to a third-party because the direct path feels like homework.

#Hotels + #MarketingSky: what would make "book with us" the lazy option, not the loyal one? (Lazy wins.)

Mosseri on the #Instagram algorithm: focus on engagement rate, not total views or likes. Originality and recency weigh heavily, and small creators get tested with non-followers. #MarketingSky #SocialMedia #META

#YouTube Studio now gives #AI feedback on unpublished drafts (pacing, structure, storytelling) and lets you test 3 thumbnails on different audience segments. Soon: test up to 3 video cuts to find the best opening hook. #MarketingSky #CreatorEconomy

One agency owner at a Digiday event: "We haven't hired college-level grads in some time." #AI is filling entry-level tasks, but who trains the next seniors? Execs say redesign junior roles, don't cut them. #MarketingSky #Hiring

69% of B2B buyers say a vendor's website contradicts what its sales reps tell them, per Gartner. Robert Rose's fix isn't an alignment workshop, it's the "retell test": deliver your key message, then have someone repeat back what they heard. #MarketingSky #B2B

Some Facebook Pages are now capped at 2 link posts a month unless they pay for Meta One for Business. Publisher Pages are exempt. Meta's own data shows only 1.3% of US post views in Q1 2026 included an outbound link, down from 9.8% in 2022. #MarketingSky #Facebook #Meta

Want to build your own media list for gift guide submission this holiday season? Here are first steps >> www.boxwoodco.com/articles/hol.... #marketingsky #boxwoodco

Disney+ quietly updated its UK subscriber agreement to allow ads before and after playback on every plan, including the "ad-free" premium tier (Junior Mode excluded). #MarketingSky #Disney #Streaming
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Unsealed docs in a publisher lawsuit show #OpenAI and #Microsoft knew about AI's "doom loop" all along. A #Microsoft exec called it possibly "the largest theft of labor in human history." #MarketingSky #AI
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#Pinterest expanded its #Nvidia partnership, now built on Blackwell GPUs, to power AI discovery. Pinterest Assistant runs 25x more visual context per request, with ~85x faster response startup and 7.3x faster latency. #MarketingSky #AI

Tech Transparency Project found 332 ads on #Instagram and #Facebook this year with suspected AI-generated child sexual abuse material, reaching 29,000+ people. Many promoted deepfake 'nudify' apps. #Meta says it removed the ads. #MarketingSky

Meta launched Muse, a free personal #AI agent linked to your Facebook and Instagram profile. It plans trips, fills forms and can negotiate for you, running on a dedicated 'Muse Secure VM' built with Signal's Moxie Marlinspike. Free tier: 100M tokens/week. #MarketingSky #Meta