🚨 Password-stealing malware targets thousands of Facebook business

Be very careful how you use Messenger.

This is a malware-based cookie stealing attack so it’s serious stuff.


Trends.co is watching the growth of the “joyconomy,” which is basically just people wanting to loosen up a little bit and have some fun.

What’s this mean for your brand? Consider:

  • Embracing optimism
  • Encouraging people to embrace their inner child
  • Be positive, share compliments
  • Have fun
A line chart showing exploding search interest for “how to have more fun in life”

Biggest surprise (sarcasm) announcement from Pinterest Presents:

The platform will be launching a new tool powered by generative AI to bring image creation to product catalogs for more engaging pin images.


Pinterest Presents is happening now.

A lot of these “announcements” are kind of old news, but I’m looking forward to trying out quiz ads.

What better way to tailor content to each user than by having them tell you what they want?


Not surprised by these findings at all:

More than three-quarters (77%) of respondents head straight to the search bar when they land on an e-commerce site

84% admit they have left a site because of search issues, including irrelevant results, too many/too few products being displayed, or being directed to out-of-stock items.


Data storytelling is the process of presenting data insights using narration and visualization.

This insight is from the Exploding Topics newsletter. Speaking of insights:

75% of the data companies collect remains unused.

60% of investments in analytics capabilities go to waste because insights aren’t utilized properly.

To pull an Avinash, are analyzing and providing value or just puking data?

A line graph showing the strong growth in interest around “data storytelling”

Every platform is basically a Shorts platform.

Don’t change the content, change the medium of delivery.

-Vignesh Kumar


I recently mentioned some of Google’s post-cookie plans are a bit controversial. Like this one:

Chrome’s “Enhanced Ad Privacy.” That’s the technology that, unless switched off, allows websites to target the user with adverts tuned to their online activities and interests based on their browser histories.

Part of the reason is the apparent dark patterns in the consent system.

If you have to trick users/customers, you’ve probably lost the plot.


Apple Boosts Spending to Develop Conversational AI

The marriage of voice assistants and LLMs is coming.

Siri + Shortcuts + Apple’s GPT is an intriguing combo to think about.


Not far away—or perhaps very far away—depending on who did the measuring

-The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden 📚

A metric on its own is meaningless. It’s in context that it takes on meaning. And that context depends on the (data) storyteller.