Marketing News for the week ending Jan 2, 2026

New year. New Marketing strategies. And a lot of change ahead because 2026 isn't just another year of incremental marketing improvements, some big marketing shifts are happening.

This is the year Meta is making a big move with their ad platform. Third-party cookies finally die and what that means for marketers. The year social commerce is e-commerce. And this year, a whole new approach to SEO you need to know about.

Here are the seven biggest marketing shifts happening in 2026 and more importantly, how you can take advantage of them for your 2026 marketing strategies.

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We break down one of the most catastrophic rebranding failures in modern marketing history. We're talking Tropicana's 2009 packaging disaster.

We walk through the problem Tropicana thought they were solving, the insight that led them astray, the execution that backfired spectacularly, the neuroscience that explains why it failed, and most importantly—the takeaway you need to protect your own brand from the same fate.

Because here's the thing: in a world where products are becoming commoditized and AI can replicate almost anything, your brand recognition might be the only marketing moat you have left.

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This is your Marketing News update for the week ending December 26th, 2025.

And what a marketing week to close out the year.

We're talking about Amazon's AI shopping assistant that's about to generate ten billion dollars in incremental sales that you can leverage for your company.

Meta's AI chat targeting that went live on Dec 16th that you can use to increase your conversion rates by over 5%

Digital ad impressions that just doubled year-over-year.

And a streaming measurement deal that could finally give marketers the data they've been dreaming about.

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