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Avoid Offerwall: It Will Frustrate Your Users
SocialApr 16, 2026

Avoid Offerwall: It Will Frustrate Your Users

Offerwall, or as I call it, "Navboost Killer" is now generally available to all publishers. I highly recommend NOT implementing Offerwall. You will anger and frustrate your users to no end. I have covered this before. Beware.

By Glenn Gabe
Instagram Adds In‑Reel Affiliate Tags, Boosting Creator Earnings
SocialApr 16, 2026

Instagram Adds In‑Reel Affiliate Tags, Boosting Creator Earnings

ICYMI: Instagram is rolling out the ability to use affiliate links to tag products in Reels. 🛍️ This removes friction that often comes with creators driving audiences to their link in bio or using comment automations to share affiliate links, likely...

By Lindsey Gamble
Google Ads PMax Spend Trends Across Channels
SocialApr 16, 2026

Google Ads PMax Spend Trends Across Channels

Google Ads PMax channel performance report on the insights report that shows spend over time per channel https://t.co/1qbNeb12Tq via @AndrewLolk https://t.co/FE8snV6sFF

By Barry Schwartz
Turn PAA Questions Into Subheadings for SEO Wins
SocialApr 16, 2026

Turn PAA Questions Into Subheadings for SEO Wins

Most bloggers ignore this goldmine: “People Also Ask” (PAA) Every question in the PAA box is a ranking opportunity. Take those questions, turn them into subheadings, and answer them directly. Now your post is optimized for: • Featured snippets • More SERP real estate • Higher authority...

By Mos Clement
5 Real Writing Rules Behind 1,200+ Posts
SocialApr 16, 2026

5 Real Writing Rules Behind 1,200+ Posts

I've written 1,200+ social media posts in the last year. here are 5 writing rules I actually follow. none of them are "use hooks" or "add emojis."

By Luca Restagno
Winning Growth Comes From Intent, Not Mere Reach
SocialApr 16, 2026

Winning Growth Comes From Intent, Not Mere Reach

Reach is a vanity metric dressed up as a growth strategy. Everyone's optimizing for impressions. The ones winning are optimizing for intent. Reach tells you how many people saw you. Intent tells you how many were ready. Those are not the same thing. Ran cold email...

By Vinay Katiyar
AI Cuts Keyword Research From Hours to Minutes
SocialApr 16, 2026

AI Cuts Keyword Research From Hours to Minutes

Would you rather spend 8 hours researching keywords manually or let Claude analyze 500 competitor pages in 3 minutes and find gaps you missed?

By Flavio Amiel
LinkedIn Video Secured $100k Brand Deal—Post More
SocialApr 16, 2026

LinkedIn Video Secured $100k Brand Deal—Post More

I video on LinkedIn landed me a $100k brand deal. I should really be posting more there.

By The Space Mechanic
TROAS + Lowest Cost Drives Scalable Brand Growth
SocialApr 16, 2026

TROAS + Lowest Cost Drives Scalable Brand Growth

tROAS + Lowest cost has been crushing for us across brands. They target different audience segments in the auction and the target ROAS allows us to scale into upside with inflated budgets.

By Kody Nordquist
Meta's New Link‑click Focus Inflates Traffic, Drops CVR
SocialApr 15, 2026

Meta's New Link‑click Focus Inflates Traffic, Drops CVR

Traffic up and CVR down lately? Here are 2 of the causes: 1. Meta made ads more link-clicky. Swiping up to view comments on reels (see post below) or tapping to expand feed ads can now drive link clicks to site....

By Barry Hott
Explore 2024 Digital Design Trends in Upcoming Webinar
SocialApr 15, 2026

Explore 2024 Digital Design Trends in Upcoming Webinar

Campaign design is constantly evolving. Join Zeta Global’s design experts for this Apr. 29 webinar as they discuss current #digitalmarketing design trends, share their favorite campaigns, and highlight opportunities for marketers to be more impactful >> https://t.co/ys1p7m2vNo https://t.co/wqzpl9u0Gv

By Chad S. White
Meta Last-Click CVR Drops 50%, Hurting Sales
SocialApr 15, 2026

Meta Last-Click CVR Drops 50%, Hurting Sales

Meta last click CVR is now down 50% from Sunday for one brand that's the most impacted by this in my portfolio. Whatever is going on it's multiple things and it's not only impacting reporting, it's impacting hard sales.

By David Herrmann
Platform Culture Dictates Content Performance Across Networks
SocialApr 15, 2026

Platform Culture Dictates Content Performance Across Networks

Each platform has its own culture, its own audience behaviors, and its own unspoken rules. You can publish the same piece of content across platforms... it doesn't mean it will always perform the same.

By Amber Figlow
Track Gift‑With‑Purchase Attach Rates Like Ad CTR
SocialApr 15, 2026

Track Gift‑With‑Purchase Attach Rates Like Ad CTR

Running a Gift with Purchase promo without tracking attach rate is like running ads without tracking CTR. So we added analytics to @promopartypro today. Now you can see attach rate by campaign, product, and variant, and tell which gift is...

By Kurt Elster
Clips Have Become the Primary Product Driving Reach
SocialApr 15, 2026

Clips Have Become the Primary Product Driving Reach

Clips are no longer the byproduct of the main product — they’re the main product. No matter the size of the show, they drive the ultimate reach 👇 More in my latest newsletter, "The Clip Economy": bit.ly/ClipEconomy

By Andrew Elson (Ed Elson)
March 2026 Core Update Far Less Volatile Than December
SocialApr 15, 2026

March 2026 Core Update Far Less Volatile Than December

I think they are smoking something over at SEL 🤣 -> March 2026 Google core update more volatile than December — here’s what changed The March 2026 core update wasn't even close to the power of the December 2025 core update....

By Glenn Gabe
Sock‑puppet Trend Simulators Are Mostly Empty Hype
SocialApr 15, 2026

Sock‑puppet Trend Simulators Are Mostly Empty Hype

Is it creepy that there are companies like Chaotic Good Projects out there promising to "simulate trends" with sock puppet accounts. Yes, sure. But, in my experience, they're almost always completely full of shit. https://t.co/GD97cCghhP https://t.co/33zVwVyoVG

By Ryan Broderick
Instant AI Answers Turn Traffic Into Conversions
SocialApr 15, 2026

Instant AI Answers Turn Traffic Into Conversions

If your website isn’t powered by AI yet, you’re leaving opportunities on the table. Visitors come with questions. If no one answers instantly, they leave. AI chatbots turn: traffic → conversations → conversions

By Ebere Oyek (Nelo) — Data | AI | ML
Scale Budgets Gradually for Stable ROAS Gains
SocialApr 15, 2026

Scale Budgets Gradually for Stable ROAS Gains

Almost every week, I see accounts increasing budget too fast. From $70/day to $250/day in a few days. Then performance drops. There’s always that question — “Why did scaling break it?” Because the system didn’t have stable learning. We scaled in controlled phases. ROAS recovered to...

By Premlata (Meta + Google Ads)
Get Ready for AI Shopping and SEO Evolution
SocialApr 15, 2026

Get Ready for AI Shopping and SEO Evolution

How to Prepare for AI Shopping & the Future of E-commerce SEO with Tim Resnik Post: https://t.co/yXnT36Bq2w https://t.co/UjNxYRqOrx

By Cyrus Shepard
From Zero to 10K Followers in 3 Months
SocialApr 15, 2026

From Zero to 10K Followers in 3 Months

I grew the 𝕏 account of @vitaliidodonov from 0 to 10K followers in just 3 months. Lots of people have asked me how I did it. So I just wrote up an entire PDF explaining my strategy. If you want the full case...

By Pascio
Prepare Your Store for AI-Driven Shopping and SEO
SocialApr 15, 2026

Prepare Your Store for AI-Driven Shopping and SEO

New: How to Prepare for AI Shopping & the Future of E-commerce SEO Google, OpenAI, Amazon, and seemingly every platform are introducing new protocols + data feed attributes for folks who sell things online But what should folks in e-commerce do now?...

By Cyrus Shepard
LLMs Reduce Geo Cannibalization: Favor Many Long‑Tail Pages?
SocialApr 15, 2026

LLMs Reduce Geo Cannibalization: Favor Many Long‑Tail Pages?

Has anyone in SEO been able to validate (or disprove) the theory that content cannibalization matters LESS for GEO given that LLMs are prioritizing long-long tail pages? In other words, are there any credible studies that have shown it's better to...

By Gaetano DiNardi
Meta Events Manager Faces Random Purchase Outages, Performance Plummets
SocialApr 15, 2026

Meta Events Manager Faces Random Purchase Outages, Performance Plummets

We are seeing purchase outages left and right on Meta events manager with some of the worst performance in the last 3 days. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason here.

By David Herrmann
Testing AI Media Buyer Before Full Autonomy at 99% Accuracy
SocialApr 15, 2026

Testing AI Media Buyer Before Full Autonomy at 99% Accuracy

We’re about to start testing an AI media buyer. Essentially how it’s going to work is the AI buyer will come up with optimization ideas based on correlation between in platform, our MTA and MMM. Each optimization will be manually approved by...

By Zach Stuck
Rogue‑style Fan Pages Can Drive 100M Organic Views
SocialApr 15, 2026

Rogue‑style Fan Pages Can Drive 100M Organic Views

i interviewed the agency making “fan pages” for brands. secondary accounts that feel more like a rogue employee took over than a strategy. the “arby’s boys” page generated over 100m organic views in the first six months.

By Rachel Karten
Meta Pixel Glitch Causes Missing Subscribe Events
SocialApr 15, 2026

Meta Pixel Glitch Causes Missing Subscribe Events

Anyone experiencing Meta pixel issues in the last ~36 hours, what are you seeing/experiencing? For example, I'm seeing zero Subscribe events for a client showing in Events Manager, they're using LittleData + Segment, but we have other similarly setup events that...

By Barry Hott
AI Commoditizes Tweets; Brand Strategy Remains Premium
SocialApr 15, 2026

AI Commoditizes Tweets; Brand Strategy Remains Premium

Great take. I think specifically, as AI evolves and expands, hyper-specific knowledge (and in that lies taste), is what clients will pay for, rather than just "tweets written for you" which used to work well before AI. Example: One of the things I...

By Pascio
Martech Inversion: Cockpits Turning Into Engine Rooms
SocialApr 15, 2026

Martech Inversion: Cockpits Turning Into Engine Rooms

The Great Martech Inversion: When the Cockpit Becomes the Engine Room by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/o8VHexq82B @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #Marketing #Leadership #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews #AI #CX #CRM #MarketingSuccess #MarketingStrategy #AIAgents https://t.co/qUmZ5p90Rr

By Tim Hughes
Personal Intelligence Rollout May Reshape Search Result Algorithms
SocialApr 15, 2026

Personal Intelligence Rollout May Reshape Search Result Algorithms

Added the (near) global rollout of Personal Intelligence to my algo update list. This could significantly change how search results are presented. https://t.co/0KdmuSXKw2 https://t.co/QKbuYQWBNQ https://t.co/23VgzTcOCi

By Marie Haynes
US LLC Google Ads Verification Fails From India
SocialApr 15, 2026

US LLC Google Ads Verification Fails From India

Anyone here who has setup and done advertiser verification for Google Ads account with US billing from India? We've a registered LLC in US but verification keep getting rejected.

By Vinay Katiyar
AI Shopping Generates Unattributed Conversions, Skewing Attribution
SocialApr 15, 2026

AI Shopping Generates Unattributed Conversions, Skewing Attribution

AI shopping is sending buyers to your store but NONE of them show up in your attribution. 39% of consumers already use AI for product discovery, and 23% of Americans bought something via AI in the past month. These are the...

By Kody Nordquist
Chatbot Ads Need a New Model Beyond Search
SocialApr 15, 2026

Chatbot Ads Need a New Model Beyond Search

Search is the wrong mental model for chatbot advertising "I think it’s a mistake to view the Search advertising model as the default for chatbots; both from a user expectation and a revenue standpoint. And in fact, I think that Search...

By Eric Benjamin Seufert
Shift Focus: Influence AI Answers, Not Just Search Rankings
SocialApr 15, 2026

Shift Focus: Influence AI Answers, Not Just Search Rankings

The content question has changed. It’s no longer “Did this rank?” It’s “Did this influence ChatGPT, Perplexity, or AI Overviews?” If your content is not showing up where buyers get answers, traffic wins are a distraction. https://t.co/KR59tuv2m0

By Ross Simmonds
The Web's Power: Shared Solutions Help Solve Problems
SocialApr 15, 2026

The Web's Power: Shared Solutions Help Solve Problems

This has always been the power of the web. Someone out there has probably come across the same situation and problem you are experiencing. His site ran into the same exact situation my case study covered (and I posted that...

By Glenn Gabe
Undisclosed Promo Bots May Violate FTC and Copyright Law
SocialApr 15, 2026

Undisclosed Promo Bots May Violate FTC and Copyright Law

As annoying as that probably was, this is quantifiably different. You know the Geffen rep works for geffen; you know the speaker has a strong financial interest in her success, you can use that information to analyze what they saying....

By David Lowery
Spam Report Abuse Could Harm Innocent Users, Bad Move
SocialApr 15, 2026

Spam Report Abuse Could Harm Innocent Users, Bad Move

The more I think about this, the more I think this is going to cause *many problems* for all parties involved. E.g. What would stop someone from filing a spam report (even if legit), but using someone else's name in...

By Glenn Gabe
SERP Lens Launches Major SEO Feature Upgrades
SocialApr 15, 2026

SERP Lens Launches Major SEO Feature Upgrades

Epic new updates were just released to our new SEO browser, SERP Lens. Including updates to theme settings, placeholder animations, a new rules engine (with 17 instant checks), a robots.txt parser & more. Here's a preview of what each looks like for...

By Brodie Clark
Snap's Cost Cuts First, Growth Now Powered by Subscriptions
SocialApr 15, 2026

Snap's Cost Cuts First, Growth Now Powered by Subscriptions

⚡️ $SNAP Rightsizing Cost Structure is Important 1st Step, but What About Engagement and Specs? ⚡️ SNAP also disclosed Q1 revenue growth of 12%…However, the growth is coming from Snap+ subscriptions, with the core advertising business likely… https://t.co/1NDtoN6T2v

By Rich Greenfield
Good SEO Builds Value; Spam SEO Clutters Google
SocialApr 15, 2026

Good SEO Builds Value; Spam SEO Clutters Google

SEO isn't spam. Lazy SEO is. actual SEO: build something useful then make it findable spam SEO: pump out 500 "best tools..." listicles and pray if your strategy is making google worse you're not a marketer you're just littering with a monthly retainer

By Nabil Chiheb
Google Search Console Emails Were Just a Bug
SocialApr 15, 2026

Google Search Console Emails Were Just a Bug

Those Google Search Console email notifications from yesterday were just a bug https://t.co/XG2t0D600l by @MordyOberstein https://t.co/PitB2k0rEJ

By Barry Schwartz
Scale Faster: Test 5‑10 Creatives Weekly, Not One
SocialApr 15, 2026

Scale Faster: Test 5‑10 Creatives Weekly, Not One

I've seen inside 50+ ad accounts. Here's the pattern: Accounts that tested 1-2 new creatives a week stagnated. Accounts that tested 5-10 new creatives a week scaled. Your assumption that you'll find a winner eventually is wrong. You find winners...

By Kamil Sattar
Google Will Forward Your Spam Report Text to Site Owners
SocialApr 15, 2026

Google Will Forward Your Spam Report Text to Site Owners

Important change from Google for how spam reports are handled AND for people filing the spam reports. 1) Google can now use those reports to issue a manual action on a site. They said that wasn't the case before. And...

By Glenn Gabe
Prioritize Multi‑Touch Attribution Over AI Hype
SocialApr 15, 2026

Prioritize Multi‑Touch Attribution Over AI Hype

I love that job board operators are so focused on AI, but maybe you should figure out multi touch attribution, first. #babysteps

By Matt Charney
Claude AI Outshines Surfer SEO’s Pricey Keyword Tool
SocialApr 15, 2026

Claude AI Outshines Surfer SEO’s Pricey Keyword Tool

Surfer SEO's content optimization is becoming obsolete, even their AI version of it. When Claude can do everything better, including better than their template-driven approach, paying $99/month for keyword density is. Kinda lame?

By Flavio Amiel
Master TikTok Organic? Now Target Meta for Apps
SocialApr 15, 2026

Master TikTok Organic? Now Target Meta for Apps

finally sharing something for app marketers. if you've figured out TT organic, Meta should be next.

By Aazar Shad
YouTube Shorts May Be Killing Your Channel Growth
SocialApr 14, 2026

YouTube Shorts May Be Killing Your Channel Growth

Hit a new milestone, which is great, but I’ve drawn a few conclusions that are a bit unsettling. 1) YouTube shorts are NOT helping channel growth; it might be killing it. You can click to go back and see milestone...

By Kevin L. Matthews II
Maps Ads and Gemini Now Unify Across Siri, Android, iOS
SocialApr 14, 2026

Maps Ads and Gemini Now Unify Across Siri, Android, iOS

Ads in Maps and Gemini powering Siri, Android and iOS are basically the same thing now?

By Dave Zatz
Irrelevant Ads Lose Audience Instantly—Make It Feel Personal
SocialApr 14, 2026

Irrelevant Ads Lose Audience Instantly—Make It Feel Personal

Walk into a bar. Everyone's 20 years older than you. What do you do? Leave immediately. That's what's happening on your ads, your landing page, your homepage. People can instantly tell if something's "for them." If it doesn't feel relevant, they're gone.

By Barry Hott