Daily Minute Master Series
May 24, 2024
by Corey Padveen
Marketing News and Updates
X Secures $6 Billion in Funding for its AI Projects
xAI, the team building X’s Grok AI chatbot, and other elements within Musk’s family of businesses, has apparently secured almost $6 billion in additional funding from a variety of sources, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Tribe Capital.
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TikTok Updates Disclosures Around State-Based Influence Efforts
Amid ongoing questions about the influence of the Chinese Government on its operations, TikTok has launched an updated transparency report, which will now provide more specific insight into detected influence operations that have been removed from the app, while it’s also updating its rules to restrict the reach of state-affiliated media accounts that attempt to influence communities outside their home country.
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Elon Musk Says X Now Has 600 Million Monthly Active Users
Elon claims that X is now up to 600 million monthly active users, and around 300 million daily actives. Which is significant, because as of just two months ago, X reported having 550 million monthly actives, and 250 million DAU in official data about its usage.
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New Google Search Ads Resemble AI Assistant App
A keynote at Google’s Marketing Live event showed a new AI-powered visual search results that feature advertisements that engage users within the context of an AI-Assisted search, blurring the line between AI-generated search results and advertisements.
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Why Every Marketer Should Be On Reddit
In its nearly 20 years of existence, Reddit has built a robust, dynamic, and highly engaged community. It has cemented itself as not only one of the key influencers for the internet culture we have come to know today, but also as one of the top 10 social media sites in the world, with more than 500,000 monthly visitors across more than 100,000 active communities.
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Ask A PPC: How Do I Get A Job At A PPC Agency
This month’s “Ask A PPC” question is particularly significant because the job market has been quite volatile.
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