Daily Minute Master Series
February 6, 2026
by Corey Padveen
Marketing News and Updates
X Calls on Users to Submit Grok-Generated Video for Super Bowl Promotion
X has announced another million-dollar prize, this time for Grok-generated video, with X users being asked to generate video clips that can form a part of X’s upcoming Super Bowl ad to promote its latest AI tools.
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Reddit Posts Strong Q4 and Full Year Results
Reddit has published its latest performance update, with the platform adding another 5 million daily active users, while it’s also posted a strong revenue result for Q4.
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2026 Social Media Benchmarks
The team from Socialinsider recently published their latest social media marketing benchmarks report, which looks at average performance stats based on 70 million total posts across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and X.
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Meta Announces Discovery Improvements for Creator Marketplace
Meta has announced some updates for its Creator Marketplace, which enables brands to find relevant creators to work with on paid partnership campaigns.
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Is Google Finally Cracking Down On Self-Promotional Listicles?
Over the past year, one of the most common tactics for gaining visibility in AI search has been for companies to publish “listicle” content on their own blogs – ranking the best companies or products in their niche and placing themselves in the No. 1 spot. There are variations of this approach – the listicle might contain a list of the best companies, or it could also list the best products in a specific industry. The common thread is that the company publishing the blog post ranks itself, and/or its own products, in the top position.
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Discover Core Update, AI Mode Ads & Crawl Policy – SEO Pulse
Google releases a core update targeting Discover only, Alphabet reveals AI Mode ad plans, and Mueller pushes back on bot-specific content. Five stories.
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