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How CBS Survived and Thrived With a 50-State Scavenger Hunt for Survivor 50

Ahead of its Feb. 25 premiere of the 50th season, Survivor, the long-running CBS reality show, invited fans from across the country to celebrate the milestone by participating in a real-life version of the game, the Survivor 50 Challenge. Produced by the creative and experiential studio Tool, the Survivor 50 Challenge brought the show’s core

Has AI ruined Steam Next Fest?

Steam Next Fest is in full flow, and as usual, gamers have just one week (six days from today) to find their favorite demos among thousands of choices. There are currently 3,455 games participating in the event. That number alone can make it hard to find the diamonds in the rough. But some gamers are

How Shared and Paid Media Make the PESO Model® Operating System Move

Shared and paid make the PESO Model® move. Gini Dietrich shows you how to use them to distribute proof and amplify proven signals without wasted spend. The post How Shared and Paid Media Make the PESO Model® Operating System Move first appeared on Spin Sucks.

AI-SEO Is A Change Management Problem

Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! AI-SEO transformation will fail at the alignment layer, not the tactics layer. 25 years of transformation research, spanning 10,800+ participants across industries, reveals that the gap between successful and failed initiatives isn’t technical skill. It’s organizational readiness. What you’ll get: Why AI SEO

Customers want dialogue, and marketers cannot keep up

Eighty-three percent of marketers say customers expect two-way conversations. Yet 69% admit they struggle to respond quickly to inquiries. That gap may be the most critical signal in Salesforce’s latest State of Marketing report. The AI revolution in marketing is already operational. Nearly 4,500 marketers surveyed globally confirm that expectations are rising faster than most

100% EYEWEAR SNOW CAMPAIGN :: Behance

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SerpApi Challenges Google’s Right To Sue Over SERP Scraping

SerpApi filed a motion to dismiss Google’s federal lawsuit, two months after Google sued the company under the DMCA for allegedly bypassing its SearchGuard anti-scraping system. The filing goes beyond disputing the technical allegations. SerpApi is challenging whether Google has the legal right to bring the case at all. The Standing Question SerpApi’s core argument

Advertisers move to rein in agencies over hidden media profits

The number that stands out in the WPP whistleblower filings isn’t the $100 million the complaint is seeking, or even the $1 billion GroupM was allegedly generating annually from undisclosed trading income. It’s 97.4% — the share of GroupM’s proprietary inventory that its own largest clients weren’t allegedly using. Google, its biggest U.S. client at

How A View, From A Bridge subverts the street interview genre with humanity

Artist Joe Bloom joined us at December’s Nicer Tuesdays event in London to talk about how his frustration with the “one million and one” interview skits he encountered whilst doomscrolling led to the creation of his loved series: A View, From A Bridge. He also spoke his love of “non spaces”, and shed light on

Early Data Shows Fewer Domains In US

NewzDash published an analysis comparing Discover visibility before and after Google’s February 2026 Discover core update, using panel data from millions of US users tracked through its DiscoverPulse tool. It compared pre-update (Jan 25-31) and post-update (Feb 8-14) windows across the top 1,000 domains and top 1,000 articles in the US, California, and New York.

How Budweiser, Pepsi, and Dunkin’ Won the Super Bowl, and Michelob Ultra Lost It

It’s been two weeks since the Super Bowl, but the most important data from advertising’s biggest night lands now, after the noise has died and the industry has moved on to arguing about something else. That’s the problem. Every year, the game becomes a weeklong festival of hot takes, rankings, and creative commentary. The game

This indie game is like Halo with haywire physics

An upcoming indie game looks like a great example of how game worlds can play with the laws of physics. Orbifold, which is being development by four-man team Wild Vector Games, takes place inside a series of spheres, creating an opportunity for mind-bending traversal mechanics. Orbifold is described as a frantic first-person shooter with roguelike

4 Sites That Recovered From Google’s December 2025 Core Update

The December 2025 core update had a significant impact on a large number of sites. Each of the sites below that have done well are either long term clients, past clients or sites that I have done a site review for. While we can never say with certainty what changed as the result of a

Email retention after Gmail’s ‘Manage Subscriptions’ rollout

When Gmail rolled out a new “Manage Subscriptions” feature last summer, we knew it would make an impact, particularly for brands that didn’t lean into segmentation and automated journeys and instead peppered users with frequent messaging that lacked personalization. Six months in, the impact is deeper than we expected. Unsubscribe rates are up an average

Metron Stationary :: Behance

Measure Up. Stand Out. Meet the new Metron — built around you, down to the millimetre. We know your desk is where ideas start, deadlines get met, and creativity happens. That’s why Metron is more than stationery. We’re your everyday office partner — here to help you organise, create, and grow. A bold new identity

15 Smarter Interview Questions For Hiring Digital Marketers

Hiring a digital marketer is no longer about finding someone who knows a few platforms well. Most candidates can talk through Google Ads, social media, or analytics tools at a surface level. That is table stakes now. What separates a strong hire from a risky one is how they think when performance shifts, privacy rules

LinkedIn reach isn’t broken, it’s being replaced by real marketing

Lamenting your diminishing LinkedIn reach? It’s not a bug in the system, it’s the effect of too much content impacting its value. But there is a different approach. Source

The Cloud Report is one crossing guard’s printed newsletter about “good trash and cute dogs”

Garnering viral attention on Instagram right now is artist, naturalist and crossing guard Christine Tyler Hill, who works in Burlington, Vermont – the main character of her mini-zine The Cloud Report. Having been a crossing guard in her neighbourhood for the past two years, this printed monthly newsletter shares observations from “the intersection and beyond”.

Enterprise SEO Operating Models That Scale In 2026 And Beyond

Most enterprises are still treating SEO as a marketing activity. That decision, whether intentional or accidental, is now a material business risk. In the years ahead, SEO performance will not be determined by better tactics, better tools, or even better talent. It will be determined by whether leadership understands what SEO has become and restructures the

WTF is a creator capital market?

Most creators still rely on brand deals and platform payouts. But a small — and growing — group is experimenting with raising capital by selling a slice of their future earnings. The activity is early and fragmented, with adopters spread out across traditional financial institutions, the crypto world, and investment firms, but it’s given rise

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