Daily Minute Master Series
January 20, 2026

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

The Rise of Gen AI Apps

If you’re trying to get your head around the impact of generative AI on the broader digital landscape, this new visualization from the team at Visual Capitalist will help.

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Perplexity AI Interview Explains How AI Search Works

Interview with Perplexity AI explains how AI Search works and provides insights into answer engine optimization.

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Data Shows AI Overviews Disappears On Certain Kinds Of Finance Queries

New data from BrightEdge shows how finance-related queries perform on AI Overviews, identifying clear areas that continue to show AIO while Google is pulling back from others. The deciding factor is whether the query benefits from explanation and synthesis versus direct data retrieval or action.

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Why Agentic AI May Flatten Brand Differentiators

James LePage, Dir Engineering AI, co-lead of the WordPress AI Team, described the future of the Agentic AI Web, where websites become interactive interfaces and data sources and the value add that any site brings to their site becomes flattened. Although he describes a way out of brand and voice getting flattened, the outcome for informational, service, and media sites may be “complex.”

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Threads Continues to Add Users as X Sees Ongoing Declines

One of the most anticipated changing of the guard moments set to happen in 2026, based on each app’s current trajectory, is that Meta’s Twitter clone Threads is likely to overtake the app formerly known as Twitter, X, in terms of active users.

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Meta Says That the Science Does Not Support Teen Social Media Bans

Amid ongoing discussion around increased restrictions on teen social media use, in many regions, Meta has published a response of sorts to the main claims being leveled against social media, and its own platforms specifically, in regards to negative impacts.

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