Today in Digital Marketing Tod Maffin

They're baaack — third-party cookies: Will they ever die? Stripe makes a big move away from payments. Threads now has more daily users than X. And a review of Meta's spanky new AI: Spoiler alert — it's not great.

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Now even Reddit comments are filling up with AI spam — and a whole new generation of bots are lined up to take marketers' money. Why your buyers are willing to wait up to five days longer for their purchase. What media buyers are saying about the proposed TikTok sale. And Europe says TikTok's latest promotion is as addictive as cigarettes.

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Your ad costs are going up — is it all Temu's fault? TikTok influencers say their peers are going into brand deals too hard. And the hilarious glitch at Microsoft which is sowing confusion among the Mikes.

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Fake company, real products — inside the elaborate secret Amazon scheme. Also: How to get your ads beside the most popular Shorts content. Your brand's Facebook group might break on Monday. And X is having another very bad week.

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Companies are now selling their users' brainwave data to target consumers with ads, and lawmakers are just now catching wind of it. Also: What to expect from ads on Threads. Why ad tech AI is watching episodes of The Office. And a long-time Google ad extension is going away.

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It's happening — tappable links might be coming to TikTok videos. LinkedIn's new Premium company pages have a creepy but probably very effective new feature. The digital ad industry didn't suck as much as you think it did last year. And Elon has a plan for ridding X of bots: Give him more money.

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