Skip the fluff. Here’s the stuff you actually need to know. This week’s headlines cover the AI tools shaking up the ad world and the latest online ads, search, and social updates that might just shift your strategy. Let’s get you caught up.
Events to Keep an Eye On This Week
| Date | Event | Description | Location |
| June 16–17, 2025 | DigiMarCon South Florida | Two-day digital marketing, media & advertising conference featuring keynotes, masterclasses, ad‑tech & MarTech insights. | Miami, FL, USA |
| June 24–25, 2025 | Digital Marketing World Forum (DMWF) | Premier global conference & expo exploring AI, CRM, affiliates, SEO, social media, automation. | Olympia, London, UK |
| June 21, 2025 | Summer Solstice | Official start of summer. Prime moment for seasonal digital campaign launches. | Global |
Weekly News Highlights
Advertising & Tech
- Amazon doubles Prime Video ads to 6 minutes per hour
- Pinterest launches AI collages and trend forecasts before Cannes
- Meta pushes AI ads, but creatives stay skeptical
- Meta rolls out Opportunity Score to all advertisers
- Uber expands Programmatic Journey Ads across Europe
Search Trends
- Google’s AI Mode is now rolling out to all US users
- News sites are losing traffic thanks to Google’s new AI tools
- Google is testing Audio Overviews in Search results
- Google Ads may pause your account over manager violations
- Google Ads testing URL filters for Search campaigns
- Google quietly drops robots.txt advice for blocking auto-translated pages
- Microsoft Ads gets a reporting revamp and Performance Max updates
Social Media Buzz
- Pinterest teams up with LTK to show influencer content in your feed
- Brazil says social platforms are now liable for what users post
- Snapchat offers free ad credits as TikTok ban talks heat up
- TikTok hits 30M UK users and ramps up investment there
- TikTok adds seller badges to show off top performers
- TikTok launches an ad assistant inside Ads Manager
- Meta finally adds DMs to Threads, but with limits
- Instagram expands the test Reels feature to everyone
- Instagram will now show your public posts in search results
- Meta launches AI video editing tools across its apps and site
- YouTube lets creators change thumbnails by language
- YouTube adds more unskippable ads before videos
- YouTube eases up on how it moderates video content
AI Insights
- OpenAI launches new model: o3-pro
- France’s Mistral debuts Europe’s first AI reasoning model
- Meta AI app now shows weirdly personal public chats
- Meta AI app raises big privacy concerns
- Google’s Gemini AI can now summarize PDFs instantly
- The Browser Company launches AI-first browser, Dia
- Wikipedia halts AI summaries after editors push back
- Microsoft Edge adds AI search to browser history, even works with typos
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