Daily Minute Master Series
April 17, 2026

by Corey Padveen

Marketing News and Updates

Meta raises the price of its Quest VR headsets

Meta announced new price hikes for its Quest VR units, with prices for its Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S headsets going up by between $50 and $100 each.

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Facebook wants to scan users’ camera rolls for content

Facebook is trying out a new approach to get people to share more content, with users in the U.K. now able to opt into a process that will recommend photos to share from users’ camera roll and provide suggestions for edits, collages, etc.

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Threads updates reply format and web UI

Threads is rolling out indented replies in order to make it easier to follow reply chains in-stream, while it’s also working on a new UI for its web version, which will also include DMs.

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Gen Z Workers Pick Human-Only Output Over AI-Assisted

Gen Z workers surveyed said they would trust human-only work over AI-assisted output by more than 2-to-1. The findings come from a new survey by the Walton Family Foundation, GSV Ventures and Gallup.

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Google’s Product Feed Strategy Points To The Future Of Retail Discovery

For years, many advertisers treated product feeds as a channel task tied mainly to Shopping campaigns. If you were running Shopping ads, feed optimization likely got attention. If you weren’t, it often slipped behind priorities for the PPC campaigns you were running. Now, that approach is starting to show its age.

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Google AI Mode in Chrome Gets Side-by-Side Browsing

Google is updating AI Mode in Chrome with two changes. Clicking a link now opens a webpage beside the AI Mode panel on desktop, and you can add open tabs, images, and PDFs as context for a search.

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