Amazon turns Prime Video shows into shoppable ads

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🛒 Amazon turns Prime Video shows into shoppable ads

🧵 Zuckerberg says Threads may now outreach X

🎾 3 creator-event mistakes the US Open just exposed for you

📊 Google Analytics gives you customizable dashboards

📱 Q2 index reveals six TikTok formats winning audiences

Plus: 💡 6 strategies & tactics, 🎁 6 other news you might like, and 🧰 6 tools.

🛒 Amazon turns Prime Video shows into shoppable ads LINK

Amazon is rolling out new features that let people shop for products while watching Prime Video, building on its X-Ray experience and adding a way to buy items directly from what appears on screen.

The "Shop the Show" feature in Amazon's app is growing from 1,300 titles to more than 8,000 in the U.S., covering Prime Originals, select licensed favorites, and live sports.

A new "Shop the Scene" tool, live today on iOS and Android across more than 600 titles, uses Amazon Lens visual search to identify products inspired by characters' outfits, home decor, and other items in a scene.

🧵 Zuckerberg says Threads may now outreach X LINK

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Threads has either grown past X in size or is very close to doing so, marking the app Meta built to challenge the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Threads reached 500 million monthly active users in June, while a SpaceX prospectus in May put X at around 550 million monthly active users, up from 520 million in December 2025.

For advertising, Zuckerberg said the specific audience on each app matters more than total size, noting he still uses X to reach AI industry people who stay active there.

🎾 3 creator-event mistakes the US Open just exposed for you LINK

The creator backlash at this year's US Open revealed three mistakes brands make with creator activations at big cultural events: weak briefing, poor creator-event matching, and choosing moments where the brand does not belong.

Viral videos showed creators filming loudly, using ring lights during matches and disturbing spectators, prompting experts to blame brands and agencies for failing to explain the "unspoken rules" of the traditionally gatekept tournament.

Some brands activated around the event rather than at it, such as eos partnering with tennis player Ayan Broomfield, and Levain Bakery and Chase working with Paige Paul's Dairy Boy pop-up during US Open Fan Week.

📊 Google Analytics gives you customizable dashboards LINK

Google Analytics has launched Dashboards, a feature that lets businesses pull their most important KPIs and visualizations into a single customizable report built directly inside the platform, without jumping between separate reports.

Building reports is now drag-and-drop on a grid-based canvas, with six visualization types at launch: scorecards, tables, line charts, bar charts, donut charts and funnel charts for tracking conversion steps and drop-offs.

Standard properties can include up to 15 cards per dashboard while premium properties support up to 30, and users need an Editor or Administrator role to create and publish, though anyone with property access can view.

📱 Q2 index reveals six TikTok formats winning audiences LINK

The Q2 2026 TikTok Editing Format Index, a quarterly benchmark from Net Influencer built with data from social listening firm dig, found six editing formats that gained ground with audiences across the platform.

The index tracks 20 editing formats across 58,037 US TikTok posts, scoring each on how many creators make it and how fast audiences respond, with the top 1 percent most-viewed posts removed so viral hits cannot skew results.

Photo Carousels nearly doubled from 717 to 1,317 posts and rose on both signals, while Shoppable Video Tagged grew 55 percent in post count yet lost 41 percent in engagement rate against the average post.

💡 Strategies & Tactics

> Before you hire an SEO auditor, know what you’re paying for: Verify an SEO audit includes human analysis beyond a crawler or AI export by adding refund clauses and testing the tools yourself first.

> The Creative Velocity Gap: What B2B Content Teams Should Steal From How Performance Marketers Iterate: Copy performance marketers by cheaply testing several message angles before writing, since two-week cycles reveal what resonates in days rather than a quarter.

> Google Ads Attribution Models Explained: Last Click vs. Data-Driven: Google Ads now offers two credit models, and its AI-driven one spreads conversion credit realistically across every touchpoint, making it the better fit for most businesses.

> Why B2B Software Companies Need an AI Visibility Strategy, Not Just an SEO One: Getting cited in AI answers requires consistent third-party mentions and structured data, not just page rankings, or your brand stays invisible to buyers.

> Are you doing marketing… or building software?: Before automating any AI marketing task, spend 30 minutes deciding whether to buy a vendor tool, hire expertise, or build one small verifiable step in-house.

> Microsoft Clarity guide maps five SaaS monetization questions to session data: Explains how subscription software teams can use Microsoft's free Clarity recordings and heatmaps to see why high-intent users abandon upgrades, distinguishing experience problems from demand problems.

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