Daily Minute Master Series
January 21, 2026

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

Meta Adds More Languages to AI Translations for Reels

Meta announced an update to its AI translation options for Reels, with an additional five languages now available within its translation options.

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X Publishes AI-Powered Algorithm Code

Elon Musk has come through on his promise to publish the latest version of the X “For You” feed algorithm, which provides more insight into how X is looking to maximize user engagement, and ensure you’re seeing the most relevant posts every time you log into the app.

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FTC Announces Appeal in Meta Antitrust Case

Despite a federal judge ruling against the FTC in its long-running antitrust case against Meta back in November, the FTC has today announced that it’s appealing the ruling, which will force Meta back to court once again, and drag the case into its fifth year of litigation.

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What Profitable Google Ads Look Like in 2026

As marketers are forced to give PMax more control, many are struggling to understand exactly how to structure automated Google Ads campaigns and accounts. In this webinar, the marketing leadership team at DigiCom, a 2025 Inc. 5000-listed ecommerce growth agency, breaks down how they are running Google Ads at scale in 2026.

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How Recommender Systems Like Google Discover May Work

Google Discover is largely a mystery to publishers and the search marketing community even though Google has published official guidance about what it is and what they feel publishers should know about it. Nevertheless, it’s so mysterious that it’s generally not even considered as a recommender system, yet that is what it is. This is a review of a classic research paper that shows how to scale a recommender system. Although it’s for YouTube, it’s not hard to imagine how this kind of system can be adapted to Google Discover.

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OpenAI Search Crawler Passes 55% Coverage In Hostinger Study

Hostinger analyzed 66 billion bot requests across more than 5 million websites and found that AI crawlers are following two different paths. LLM training bots are losing access to the web as more sites block them. Meanwhile, AI assistant bots that power search tools like ChatGPT are expanding their reach. The analysis draws on anonymized server logs from three 6-day windows, with bot classification mapped to AI.txt project classifications.

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