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Digiday: the influencer brand trip is giving way to longer, cheaper, less staged partnerships
Social Media Marketing

Digiday: the influencer brand trip is giving way to longer, cheaper, less staged partnerships

Digiday reported on 14 August 2026 that the high six figure creator brand trip is under pressure, with budget moving to longer…

Aug 17, 20263 min read
X publishes more of its ranking code and tests a tool that shows you your own post labels
Social Media Marketing

X publishes more of its ranking code and tests a tool that shows you your own post labels

X expanded the ranking code in its GitHub repository on 13 August 2026 and is testing a label export for randomly selected…

Aug 17, 20263 min read
Reddit research: first-hand accounts outweigh influencer reviews 2x in US buying
Social Media Marketing

Reddit research: first-hand accounts outweigh influencer reviews 2x in US buying

Reddit's expanded Path to Purchase 2026 research says US shoppers rate first-hand consumer experience twice as important as influencer reviews, and that…

Aug 13, 20263 min read
LinkedIn says 75% of its AI citations come from member profiles, not company pages
Social Media Marketing

LinkedIn says 75% of its AI citations come from member profiles, not company pages

LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions blog published an AI search playbook on 11 August 2026 citing Meltwater research that attributes 75 percent of LinkedIn…

Aug 12, 20263 min read
LinkedIn now ranks post comments per viewer
Social Media Marketing

LinkedIn now ranks post comments per viewer

LinkedIn has moved comment display to a per viewer relevance ranking using professional interests, connections and engagement activity, as reported on 9…

Aug 10, 20263 min read
Reddit Plans to Surface Old Reviews and Add Shopping Listing Ads
Social Media Marketing

Reddit Plans to Surface Old Reviews and Add Shopping Listing Ads

On Reddit's Q2 2026 earnings call, reported by Search Engine Journal on 5 August 2026, Steve Huffman said Reddit intends to surface…

Aug 9, 20263 min read
Snap launches an official Snapchat Ads MCP Server for AI agents
Social Media Marketing

Snap launches an official Snapchat Ads MCP Server for AI agents

Snap launched the Snapchat Ads MCP Server on 3 August 2026, an official connection between its ad platform and Claude, ChatGPT and…

Aug 8, 20263 min read
Snap's Q2 2026 ad growth came from higher prices, not more impressions
Social Media Marketing

Snap's Q2 2026 ad growth came from higher prices, not more impressions

Snap Inc. reported Q2 2026 results on 3 August 2026: advertising revenue up 9%, with the Form 10-Q attributing the increase to…

Aug 5, 20263 min read
LinkedIn now puts event ad viewership lift at 31x, eight months after reporting 31%
Social Media Marketing

LinkedIn now puts event ad viewership lift at 31x, eight months after reporting 31%

LinkedIn's 30 July 2026 event-ads framework claims 31 times more viewers for promoted company-hosted events, eight months after reporting a 31% lift.…

Aug 5, 20263 min read