Daily Minute Master Series
February 21, 2025
by Corey Padveen
Marketing News and Updates
New Survey Shows Musk and Zuckerberg are Losing Public Favor
As you can see in this chart, according to a new survey conducted by Pew Research, most Americans now have less-than-favorable views of both X owner Elon Musk and Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg.
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Elon’s Increasing Political Influence Could Spark a Financial Turnaround for X
While the perception of Elon Musk’s X project has shifted since the U.S. election, in which Musk helped Donald Trump regain the presidency, the company’s financials still don’t look great, and could still pose an existential risk for the platform, if it can’t win more advertisers back.
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Meta Shares Overview of How its Community Notes Will Work
Meta’s controversial switch to a Community Notes model, while phasing out third-party fact-checking, is set to get underway very soon, with the company today posting a new overview of how Community Notes will function, and how users will now be in control of what is and is not flagged as false information across its apps.
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Does Google Traffic Affect YouTube Recommendations? What To Know
In a recent social media discussion, Rene Ritchie, YouTube’s Creator Liaison, addressed questions about how Google traffic affects YouTube recommendations. The conversation centered on whether brief view durations from Google Search referrals could negatively impact a channel’s performance.
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How To Drive Google Shopping Growth With Only One Of Each Product
Google Shopping is a Google Ads product that allows advertisers to serve feed-based ads on the search engine results page (SERPs). The auction for Shopping Ads works in a similar way to Google Text Ads, in the sense that the auction is query-based. However, Google Shopping does not target keywords and uses the feed (and a few other factors) to determine when and where to serve ads.
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Google Responsive Search Ads Just Got More Flexible
Google Ads just rolled out an update to Responsive Search Ads (RSAs), and while it may not seem groundbreaking at first glance, it could have a noticeable impact on how advertisers optimize their campaigns. This update focuses on how Google assembles ad assets, giving marketers more control over messaging while still leveraging AI-driven automation. If you’ve ever been frustrated with how Google randomly mixes and matches your headlines and descriptions, this change is worth paying attention to.
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