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<item><title>X opens lead gen ads to every advertiser</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/x-lead-gen-ads-open-to-all-advertisers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/x-lead-gen-ads-open-to-all-advertisers/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>X made Lead Gen Ads generally available to all advertisers worldwide on October 30, 2026, including small businesses and self serve buyers in X Ads…</description></item>
<item><title>Google tells advertisers AI search queries now run 3x longer</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-says-ai-search-queries-run-3x-longer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-says-ai-search-queries-run-3x-longer/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>On Google’s Ads Decoded podcast published October 28, Google search research lead Shivani Mohan said query length has increased 3x and one in every six…</description></item>
<item><title>Brooks Brothers loses bid to end strike through price</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/brooks-brothers-strike-through-price-suit-continues/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/brooks-brothers-strike-through-price-suit-continues/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>A federal judge in California ruled on October 22, 2026 that terms links in the Brooks Brothers site footer and beside its checkout sign-up boxes did not…</description></item>
<item><title>How to Hire a Startup Marketing Consultant: 5 Options</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/answers/how-to-hire-a-marketing-consultant-for-a-startup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/answers/how-to-hire-a-marketing-consultant-for-a-startup/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Compare a working call, a freelance copywriter, a positioning sprint, an agency and a fractional CMO: what each one fixes, and what to ask before you pay.</description></item>
<item><title>Best Marketing Examples November 2026, Ranked</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/c/best-marketing-november-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/c/best-marketing-november-2026/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>The best marketing campaigns and posts of November 2026, ranked by likes and updated through the month. Each example comes with the steps to copy it.</description></item>
<item><title>Give reward points a deadline and a refresh</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-nintendo-pikmin-icons-points/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-nintendo-pikmin-icons-points/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Points people already hold feel free to spend, a closing date makes them act now, and a weekly refresh gives them a reason to come back every week until…</description></item>
<item><title>Post the calendar joke before it peaks</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-netflix-mariah-halloween-ends/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-netflix-mariah-halloween-ends/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Everyone already knows the Nov 1 Mariah joke, so the line needs no setup, and posting it hours before midnight put Netflix first in line while fans were…</description></item>
<item><title>Sponsor the ritual fans already wait for</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-mariah-carey-sol-de-janeiro-its-time/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-mariah-carey-sol-de-janeiro-its-time/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Fans wait all year for this one post and share it on their own, so the brand gets millions of views it did not have to earn, and the product shows up for…</description></item>
<item><title>Reddit says Google AI Mode is cutting its search traffic</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/reddit-blames-google-ai-mode-for-traffic-drop/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/reddit-blames-google-ai-mode-for-traffic-drop/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Reddit warned its 130 million daily active uniques could fall by a low double digit percentage in the fourth quarter.</description></item>
<item><title>Big AI firms back one robots txt rule to opt out of AI</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/one-robots-txt-rule-opts-out-of-ai-training/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/one-robots-txt-rule-opts-out-of-ai-training/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Google, Microsoft and OpenAI said on October 30, 2026 they will honor one robots.txt policy token, User-Agent: __usage_ai-training, that tells every…</description></item>
<item><title>Google Business Profile AI messaging rolls out to more</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-business-profile-ai-messaging-expands/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-business-profile-ai-messaging-expands/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Google appears to be opening its Business Profile AI powered messaging to more businesses, letting customers text a business from Search and Maps in…</description></item>
<item><title>ChatGPT ads get a wider ad card and open multi image ads to</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/chatgpt-ads-wider-ad-unit-multi-image-open-beta/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/chatgpt-ads-wider-ad-unit-multi-image-open-beta/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>OpenAI told advertisers in its weekly email that ChatGPT Ads is rolling out a wider standard ad card that uses more of the conversation width on desktop.</description></item>
<item><title>Small opt out test finds AI Overviews citations drive clicks</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/ai-overviews-citation-ctr-opt-out-study/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/ai-overviews-citation-ctr-opt-out-study/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Cyrus Shepard used Google’s generative AI opt out to remove a site from AI Overviews and AI Mode and compared clicks before and after.</description></item>
<item><title>Put your product in a would you rather</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-venmo-1031-would-you-rather/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-venmo-1031-would-you-rather/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>A would you rather takes a second to answer, and putting money in your own app on one side makes people picture the product while they pick, with the…</description></item>
<item><title>Say what the video will not have</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-nintendo-miyamoto-pikmin-direct/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-nintendo-miyamoto-pikmin-direct/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Fans hope every Nintendo video hides a new game, so saying up front that there is none heads off the letdown before it starts, and hearing it from the…</description></item>
<item><title>Show the near miss every user has had</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-minecraft-never-give-up-diamonds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-minecraft-never-give-up-diamonds/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Almost every player has stopped digging one block short of the diamonds, so the joke needs no setup, and a never give up line over a cat that clearly…</description></item>
<item><title>Bring back your Halloween scene on Halloween</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-marvel-wandavision-trick-or-treat/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-marvel-wandavision-trick-or-treat/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>A scene fans already love gets a new reason to be shared on the one day it fits, and the reply turns the nostalgia into a next step: where to watch it now.</description></item>
<item><title>Celebrate the day your category was born</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-coinbase-bitcoin-whitepaper-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-coinbase-bitcoin-whitepaper-day/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Bitcoin&#x27;s supply cap of 21 million is the one number holders repeat, so leading with it says the whole idea in a line, and a birthday the whole category…</description></item>
<item><title>Turn your back catalog into a holiday post</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-a24-halloween-arsenal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-a24-halloween-arsenal/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>A studio&#x27;s films are its best content, so one theme for the day turns old stills into a new post, and each still is a quiet nudge to rewatch a film the…</description></item>
<item><title>Semrush will stop tracking Copilot on November 9</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/semrush-drops-copilot-ai-visibility-tracking/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/semrush-drops-copilot-ai-visibility-tracking/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Semrush told Enterprise AIO customers it will stop tracking Microsoft Copilot on November 9, 2026.</description></item>
<item><title>Reddit plans to make logging in the norm</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/reddit-moves-to-logged-in-experience/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/reddit-moves-to-logged-in-experience/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company will move Reddit to a primarily logged-in experience after two decades of open browsing.</description></item>
<item><title>Google says AI Mode ads earn less than search ads</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-ai-mode-ads-lower-monetization/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-ai-mode-ads-lower-monetization/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>On its earnings call, Google’s chief business officer Philipp Schindler said strong growth in AI Mode queries had an impact because of lower monetization…</description></item>
<item><title>Gemini stopped adding UTM tags to cited links</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/gemini-stops-utm-parameters-cited-links/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/gemini-stops-utm-parameters-cited-links/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Google started adding utm_source=gemini to cited links in Gemini answers in early September, then stopped around September 28.</description></item>
<item><title>Bing spotted showing ads inside AI Overviews</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/bing-ads-in-copilot-ai-overviews/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/bing-ads-in-copilot-ai-overviews/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Khushal Bherwani shared a screenshot on X of a sponsored result inside a Bing AI Overview powered by Copilot.</description></item>
<item><title>Landing Page Review Checklist: 12 Checks With Real Examples</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/answers/landing-page-review/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/answers/landing-page-review/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Review your landing page with 12 checks from our free grader, each shown on a real page. Then bring it to a 50 minute call and leave with it rewritten.</description></item>
<item><title>Holiday Marketing Examples 2026: Q4 Campaigns to Copy</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/c/holiday-marketing-examples/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/c/holiday-marketing-examples/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Holiday and Q4 marketing examples from 2026: Mariah Carey, Netflix, McDonald&#x27;s, Prada, Xbox, A24, Marvel and Venmo, with why each worked and how to copy…</description></item>
<item><title>Sell a safety feature with an absurd ride</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-uber-record-my-ride-lobster/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-uber-record-my-ride-lobster/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Safety features are hard to post about without sounding scary, so a ridiculous passenger gives people a reason to watch, and the app screen at the end…</description></item>
<item><title>Ask fans then post their answers back</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-twitch-halloween-costumes-chat/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-twitch-halloween-costumes-chat/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Fans see their own picks on the brand&#x27;s feed, and Who are we missing? invites everyone left out to reply with a costume, so the post keeps collecting…</description></item>
<item><title>Turn product use into a contest with a title</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-coinbase-champions-cup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-coinbase-champions-cup/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>A prize pool and a world title give people a reason to use the product more right now, and the in person spot gives winners a story worth sharing.</description></item>
<item><title>Turn a sponsorship into a place fans can play</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-cash-app-azzis-court-dallas/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-cash-app-azzis-court-dallas/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>A logo on a jersey is gone after the game, but a court in a local park is something kids and fans use every day, and the flower design carries the reason…</description></item>
<item><title>Make giving cost your customer nothing</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-airbnb-org-every-stay-donates/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-airbnb-org-every-stay-donates/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Charity add ons usually ask the buyer to pay extra, so saying guests pay nothing more and hosts lose nothing removes the catch, and every booking becomes…</description></item>
<item><title>Google Business Profiles let restaurants turn off third</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-business-profile-ordering-provider-controls/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-business-profile-ordering-provider-controls/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Google added controls in Business Profiles that let restaurants manage third party ordering services one by one, including opting out of specific…</description></item>
<item><title>Google tests Shopping ads inside organic product carousels</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-ai-mode-shopping-ads-in-organic-carousels/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-ai-mode-shopping-ads-in-organic-carousels/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Google is testing a format in AI Mode that mixes sponsored products with organic product results, under headers reading Sponsored and All products.</description></item>
<item><title>Google takes AI Mode ads to 10 more countries and adds</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-ai-mode-ads-more-countries-multiturn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-ai-mode-ads-more-countries-multiturn/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Google is expanding ads in AI Mode to Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Singapore, with…</description></item>
<item><title>CNIL fines Fnac 7 million euros for app tracking after</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/cnil-fines-fnac-app-tracking-after-refusal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/cnil-fines-fnac-app-tracking-after-refusal/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>France’s data protection authority fined two Fnac Darty companies a combined €7 million because the Fnac app kept sending browsing activity to a product…</description></item>
<item><title>Ride the launch everyone is waiting for</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-wendys-wendyquest-game/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-wendys-wendyquest-game/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Comparing its launch to the most awaited game on the internet hands Wendy&#x27;s a joke every gamer gets, and the date makes it a real launch instead of a meme.</description></item>
<item><title>Announce the soundtrack as its own news</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-rockstar-gta-vi-score-justice/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-rockstar-gta-vi-score-justice/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Fans waiting for the game get a new thing to talk about without a new trailer, and a single they can play right now makes the wait feel like part of the…</description></item>
<item><title>Lead with the hassle your update removes</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-raycast-ios-keyboard/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-raycast-ios-keyboard/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Every iPhone user who tried a third party keyboard knows the switching hassle, so naming it in line two tells them why this version is different before…</description></item>
<item><title>Show collectors the full set before launch</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-mcdonalds-pokemon-happy-meal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-mcdonalds-pokemon-happy-meal/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Collectors decide how many visits to make before the promo starts, so counting the full set and naming the date turns one meal into a plan to collect…</description></item>
<item><title>Make fans come back for the code</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-doordash-valkyries-morning-code/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-doordash-valkyries-morning-code/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Announcing the deal the night before and holding the code until morning gives fans a reason to save the post and come back, so one offer gets two moments…</description></item>
<item><title>Make the merch act out the title</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-a24-clear-popcorn-bucket/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-a24-clear-popcorn-bucket/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>The clear bucket is the film&#x27;s title made physical, so the joke lands in one look, and tying it to tickets bought through A24 turns a laugh into a reason…</description></item>
<item><title>Publisher groups ask the EU and Canada to act on AI search</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/publishers-ask-eu-canada-to-act-on-ai-search-summaries/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/publishers-ask-eu-canada-to-act-on-ai-search-summaries/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Seven publisher trade groups from Europe and Canada formed a coalition on October 26, 2026.</description></item>
<item><title>Pinterest ads are now buyable through Amazon and Google DSPs</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/pinterest-programmatic-deals-amazon-google-dsps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/pinterest-programmatic-deals-amazon-google-dsps/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Pinterest made Programmatic Deals generally available in North America, South America and Asia Pacific on October 26.</description></item>
<item><title>Meta Pixel starts counting conversions on customer devices</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/meta-pixel-on-device-conversions-november-12/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/meta-pixel-on-device-conversions-november-12/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Meta is adding a Pixel setting called Measure conversions on customer devices, and it is already switched on for every dataset that sends events.</description></item>
<item><title>Google adds Facebook Messenger links to Business Profiles</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-business-profile-messenger-links/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-business-profile-messenger-links/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Google is emailing businesses to say it is automatically adding Facebook Messenger m.me links to their Google Business Profiles.</description></item>
<item><title>Google Ads tests an Apple Messages button on search ads</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-ads-apple-messages-button-test/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/news/google-ads-apple-messages-button-test/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Google is testing a bright green Apple Messages button on sponsored search results, spotted by Anthony Higman on X.</description></item>
<item><title>Show the product doing what looks impossible</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-tesla-roadster-ramp-stunt/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-tesla-roadster-ramp-stunt/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>One frame of white cars flying off a giant ramp on thruster trails looks impossible, and the caption What goes up must come down is a saying the image…</description></item>
<item><title>Mix live action with hand drawn animation</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-prada-drawing-prada-holiday/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-prada-drawing-prada-holiday/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Drawn mice stealing the shoes turn a product shot into a small story, and the old cartoon look stands out in a feed full of glossy holiday ads.</description></item>
<item><title>Sell the next show with clips from the first</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-pokemon-night-out-london/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-pokemon-night-out-london/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Real crowd footage from night one proves the show is worth going to, and the ticket link for the next city sits right under it while the clip is fresh.</description></item>
<item><title>Tease the trailer a day before it drops</title><link>https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-netflix-pride-and-prejudice-trailer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.todays.marketing/library/e/fresh-netflix-pride-and-prejudice-trailer/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><description>Fans who know the book decode the teaser and talk before the trailer exists, and the trailer opens on a line every reader already knows.</description></item>
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