Daily Minute Master Series
February 5, 2026
by Corey Padveen
Marketing News and Updates
Meta’s Testing a Standalone AI Video App
Following on from the success of its AI-powered “Vibes” video feed that it built into its Meta AI app, which exclusively displays AI-generated clips, Meta has announced that it’s now testing a standalone Vibes app, with the initial version now available in Brazil and Mexico.
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Snapchat Faces Growth Challenges Ahead of AR Specs Launch
Snapchat has published its latest performance update, with the app, unsurprisingly, seeing a decline in daily active users, though it still posted a steady rise in revenue for Q4 2025.
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Will Increased Scrutiny on X Lead to More Problems for Musk and Co.?
It seems like Elon Musk’s X social media project could be set for a reckoning, of sorts, with the most recent Grok nudification controversy potentially being the last straw for already wary regulators.
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Using AI For SEO Can Fail Without Real Data (& How Ahrefs Fixes It)
By connecting AI to real, live SEO data you can get deep, more accurate answers fast. Discover 15 practical use cases & prompts to ask your SEO AI agent.
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Google Search Hits $63B, Details AI Mode Ad Tests
Alphabet reported Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion, beating Wall Street estimates and marking the company’s first year above $400 billion in annual revenue. Google Search grew 17% to $63.07 billion. On the earnings call, the company revealed how it plans to monetize AI Mode and shared new data on how AI is changing search behavior.
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Google’s Mueller Calls Markdown-For-Bots Idea ‘A Stupid Idea’
Some developers have been experimenting with bot-specific Markdown delivery as a way to reduce token usage for AI crawlers. Google Search Advocate John Mueller pushed back on the idea of serving raw Markdown files to LLM crawlers, raising technical concerns on Reddit and calling the concept “a stupid idea” on Bluesky.
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