Google will now use AI to tell you how to optimize your video ads based on their “data-backed creative best practices”.

Basically, it’ll tell you if you didn’t check a box on the list.

That list includes:

  • Show your brand off the bat and continue to show it often
  • Have the right video length
  • Use a voice-over
  • Include all 3 aspect ratios

More ABCD compliant attributes coming soon.


There is an expression in Japanese that says that someone who makes things of poor quality is in fact worse than a thief because he doesn’t make things that will last or provide true satisfaction. Athief at least redistributes the wealth of a society.

-Andrew Juniper

The core of good marketing is a providing more value than the customer expects. This is built on a quality product or service.

If the quality is missing, the value doesn’t exist, and everything else is a lie.


Podcasts remain an underrated messaging medium for brands (whether via content or advertising).

Over half of business owners are daily podcast listeners, study shows

Majority of executives would buy from brands promoted on podcasts


More ads in more places: Spotify will let artists pay to appear as homescreen recommendations

Surprised this wasn’t an option already.


Steal This: Your Haters' Words to Your Stans Ears

No matter what you do, you'll have fans and you'll have haters.

As I said previously:

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Want cult status? Attract your stans by doubling down on the reasons you have haters.

Here is that concept in action.

A photo of a skier roughly stomach deep in powder barely visible through a powder plume with an overlay of a 1 star review that says "Powder Too Deep. Our idea of a fun morning did not involve getting escorted down by ski patrol after getting stuck mid-run. They should have warned us before we got on the tram about how deep it was going to be!"

It's like Subpar Parks, but the brand is owning the negative reviews.

These 1-star experiences are someone else's dream day on the slopes. This is a brilliant way to attract that group, tout the "benefits," warn those that don't want this kind of experience, and have a little fun all at the same time.

Grail level messaging right here.

A photo from below of a skier mid-air backed by a deep blue sky and a small trail of powder back to the cliff they just launched off overlaid with a 1 star review that says "There are NO Easy Runs. We felt like our lives were in our own hands. Make a wrong turn and you're stuck on a double black diamond. It took us 90 minutes to shimmy down the Peruvian Gulch before we could even find a blue square safe enough to ride."

Read more about this campaign on LinkedIn.