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Starbucks brought Martha Stewart and actor Belmont Cameli into a social-first campaign that owns the Pumpkin Spice Latte's 'basic' reputation — and racked up 10 million-plus Instagram views in days.

Médiamétrie's July 2026 data shows nearly 56.2m French people online — 96% of the population — averaging 3h22 a day, with weather apps surging to 33m during a heatwave.

A year after Unilever's £230m acquisition, Wild says influencer marketing is now its single biggest growth channel — run for 'true selling power', not reach.

Kimberly-Clark's Kotex is riding the viral 'Bama Rush' moment, distributing nearly a million products to sororities and turning bid-card posts into a sweepstakes.

Meta has agreed roughly $18bn to settle US state claims that Instagram and Facebook harmed children — and default time limits for under-18s reshape teen reach for every advertiser.

Uber's back-to-school campaign leans into Gen Z manifestation culture and offers teens a free week of rides and deliveries to seed its supervised teen accounts.

Estée Lauder taps Bowen Yang and Ana Gasteyer for 'Guilty as Skin', a campaign built on the tension of whether to share a great product with your group chat — anchored to a striking cultural stat.

Sticker brand Sticki Rolls turned a billion YouTube views into a NYC pop-up drawing nearly 1,000 guests and a 130% search jump — a Gen Alpha content-to-retail flywheel.

Discord launches Play Quest+, a performance ad format rewarding in-game actions, with EA's Battlefield 6 as the first advertiser — a push toward outcome-based advertising.

CreatorIQ's State of Creators report finds brand suitability has overtaken performance as the top factor in influencer deals — yet 67% of creators earn under $10,000 a year.

Microdrama app downloads jumped 95.5% to 1.45 billion in H1 2026 and active advertisers rose 132% — making bingeable vertical soap operas a high-attention ad land grab.

The ASA has banned four social ads on testosterone testing from Numan and BioID Health, and says more are under investigation — a warning to men's-health marketers.

Berlin's transit operator BVG and Jung von Matt released a tongue-in-cheek film crowning Berlin — not Paris — the real 'city of love', extending a decade-old platform.

Germany's LFK Baden-Württemberg media authority imposed a record €36,000 fine on influencer Hanadi Diab for inadequate ad labelling in Instagram Stories — its largest ever.

France's Constitutional Council struck down the law banning social media for under-15s, and President Macron has called for a fresh, 'legally robust' text.

French-born social app BeReal published results from its first 'RealCard' app-open takeover, run with Crédit Agricole during the 2026 World Cup — nearly 14 million impressions.

From 24 August 2026 YouTube counts 'public views' from the first frame with no minimum watch time, inflating headline numbers 20–30%, while earnings stay tied to stricter 'engaged views'.

Liquid Death and Jason Kelce's Garage Beer launched a satirical 'We Want Your Pee' campaign urging Americans to save urine to 'cool' AI data centers — a culture-jack built for earned media.

Brown-Forman has expanded its remit with UK social and creator agency TSA, adding Gin Mare and Chambord as advertisers route premium-brand budgets to specialists.

Men's deodorant brand Rock Face launched its first multichannel campaign urging festival-goers to skip the shower queues, plugging a new 72-hour antiperspirant.