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#YouTube Studio now gives #AI feedback on unpublished drafts (pacing, structure, storytelling) and lets you test 3 thumbnails on different audience segments.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

#Google Business Profiles now shows a Collected info tab: everything its automated assistant gathered about your business via calls, texts or WhatsApp, so you can review and delete anything wrong. Real transparency win for local #SEO. #MarketingSky #LocalSEO

Brand newsletters are having a moment on #Substack. M.M.LaFleur's The M Dash has grown past 80,000 subscribers, mostly via Substack's recommendation feature, while The RealReal's anonymous newsletter has driven over $334,000 in sales. #ContentMarketing #MarketingSky

YouTube is testing local retailer swaps on affiliate product tags to see if it boosts shopping performance. It's also rolling out clearer branded content labels, new age and location controls, and automated detection for undisclosed sponsored content. #YouTube #MarketingSky