Marketing News April 8, 2026: Google's AI Mode Is Now a Store, ChatGPT Ads Open to Everyone, Beehiiv Moves into Podcasting, and the AI Content Study That Changes Your Content Strategy
This is your marketing news for the week of April 8, 2026 and this week we have four marketing stories for you. Google moved two new ad formats live inside AI Mode and it's not just ads, it's full che...
8 Apr 8min
Michelin’s Marketing Playbook: How a Tire Company Built Michelin Guide into the World's Most Powerful Restaurant Guide
We're breaking down Michelin’s marketing playbook. how a French tire company in 1900 turned a free pamphlet into one of the most influential cultural institutions on the planet by doing something no t...
7 Apr 6min
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): How to Seed Content That Gets Your Brand Recommended by AI
We're building your Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) strategy in 5 steps. You learn What each platform rewards, how to build presence across all of them, and how to know if it's working. GEO WOR...
4 Apr 11min
Fairness Bias: Pay What You Want Pricing (PWYW) - The Marketing Move You Can Use That Generated $3 Million and Changed an Industry
We're breaking down one of the boldest pricing experiments in music history, Radiohead's "In Rainbows" pay-what-you-want release. We're breaking down the dilemma they faced, the insight behind the mo...
3 Apr 8min
Marketing News This Week April 1, 2026: Google Just Slashed Traffic for Certain Types of Sites, Instagram Is Testing a Pay-to-Play Model, and Apple Podcasts Just Became a Whole New Distribution Channel
This is your marketing news for the week of March 31, 2026. This week we have three stories for you. All three marketing news stories happened in the last seven days. And all three involve a platform ...
1 Apr 7min
Vacation's Marketing Playbook: How Vacation Sunscreen Turned a Whipped Cream Can Into an $80 Million Brand
We're breaking down how Vacation Inc. built an $80 million sunscreen brand in four years, not with a bigger ad budget, not with a celebrity spokesperson, but by making the product itself the marketing...
31 Mar 8min
The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Unfinished Stories Are Your Most Powerful Marketing Tool
We're breaking down the Zeigarnik Effect, what the Zeigarnik Effect is, the brands that have built entire growth strategies around it, what the research says about the the Zeigarnik Effect, and three ...
27 Mar 8min
Marketing News This Week March 25, 2026: Four Stories That Show Exactly Where Marketing Is Heading — Apple, Google, AI Agents, and the Future of Web Content
Marketing News for the week of March 24, 2026. This week we have four big marketing stories for you: Google made a major move at NewFronts this week that changes how you plan and buy media and there's...
25 Mar 8min
