Sponsored article are now available on Linkedin

you can now sponsor them for awareness, engagement, or even LEAD GENERATION

without sending users off Linkedin to consult your article

Just messaged the Blue Ion team to get this rolling for clients.

On-LinkedIn blogging through articles and newsletters is a great way to build awareness. This turns the amplification knob to 11.

(Just post those blog and newsletter posts to an owned platform too.)


Finished reading: Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1 by Haruki Murakami 📚


WhatsApp noted that its 2 billion user base sends 7 billion voice messages daily.

via TechCrunch


Test or beta? Who knows, but hopefully it’s a toy we all get.

Google is toying with campaign-level headlines and descriptions.

This is all “as seen on LinkedIn,” but looks like you can add up to 3 headlines & 2 descriptions to an entire campaign and set on-off dates. Perfect for promos.

A screenshot of Google Ads showing the campaign-level headline setup

Older Homeowners Are Staying Put, Freezing Out Young Families

I don’t expect this segment of the housing market to free up anytime soon.

Pandemic stimulus + the Great Resignation was older generations securing their forever homes and preparing for retirement or calling it quits.


The more you know!

How Many Words Fit In A 30 Second Voice Over?

Approximately 60 words fit into 30 seconds for a soft, relaxed voiceover.
For a medium-pace voiceover, allow up to 75 words.
With hard-sell voiceovers, up to 85 words will comfortably fit.

(This is a hint that you should be considering audio ads this year.)


The incredible shrinking podcast industry | Semafor:

dominant podcasting platform had begun switching off automatic downloads for users who haven’t listened to five episodes of a show in the last two weeks.

some of the biggest podcasts in the world saw their official listener numbers drop dramatically

Downloads are podcasting’s version of social followers or email subscribers, an empty metric on its own.

The reason these numbers still “matter” is because the outdated traditional advertising value measurement of raw reach is still around.


The monoculture is dead.

The math is simple: more people are consuming more of everything than ever before, but there are very few hits of real scale. That means that many of us spend our time in niches, not in the center.

-Seth Godin

Filter culture makes it seem like the monoculture is back because of the velocity and frequency we delivered the contents of our bubbles.

Memes as currency pull the same trick of the light.

Culture is no longer a monolith but a series of microliths with devoted and vocal followings.


Google Ads match types:

Exact Match is really phrase match

Phrase Match is really broad match

Broad Match is really garbage


From Meta:

We’re discontinuing some detailed targeting options because they are either not widely used, redundant with others, too granular, they relate to topics people may perceive as sensitive (e.g., targeting options referencing causes related to health, race or ethnicity), or because of legal or regulatory requirements.

Interest targeting is on its last legs. All hail the robots.