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Riot Games and Pop Mart tease VALORANT collectibles, starting with Jett
Some games don’t just live on your screen. They live in people’s group chats, cosplay plans, desk setups, and the small rituals that make fandom feel personal. That is why “collectible” culture keeps colliding with esports titles like VALORANT, where character loyalty can be as real as team loyalty. Riot Games is tapping that collector…
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Meta One puts a US$14.99 entry price on Meta’s marketing stack
Meta has moved its subscription push from experiment to product line. Meta One now packages higher AI usage, publishing tools, analytics, account controls and business support into paid plans spanning Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI. The important shift for marketers is not that Meta is charging for extras. ContentGrip covered that testing phase earlier…
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Guinness turns matchday identity into a customizable fan uniform
Guinness is asking Singapore football fans a different question this season. Not which club do you support, but what kind of matchday person are you? The brand has reunited with Singaporean artist Tobyato for a second collaboration built around a limited-edition jersey and three interchangeable patches: Food Fan, Fashion Fan and Football Fan. Fans can…
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AI didn’t kill the writing job. It made everyone an editor.
Ten years ago, Enricko Lukman ran a content team of about 20 people, each writing two or three articles a day. Today, he says one person can put out roughly 100 articles a month, with AI doing most of the drafting and the human job shifting toward directing, training and checking the system. That shift…
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EU Kids Act sets a 13-to-15 age ladder for social platforms
The European Commission has put concrete ages behind its next child-safety push for social platforms. In President Ursula von der Leyen’s September 16 State of the Union address, the Commission said its planned EU Kids Act would mean no social media access under 13, no personal social-media account under 15, parent-supervised mini accounts for 13-…
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Wonderful Pistachios turns 7 college athletes into a year-round NIL content engine
Wonderful Pistachios is making a different kind of sports bet this season. Instead of asking one athlete to carry the whole campaign, the snack brand is building a seven-person college roster designed to keep producing content across the entire academic year. The brand has launched its first multi-athlete NIL program, the “Don’t Hold Back All-Stars,”…
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Bluey enters 5 Mattel brands as fandom moves beyond the screen
For families who know Bluey through make-believe games, sibling chaos and small everyday adventures, the appeal has always been bigger than a single episode. Mattel is now trying to turn that familiarity into something fans can physically play with across several of its best-known brands. The company and BBC Studios outlined the deal in an…
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OpenAI tests ChatGPT ads that open branded AI conversations
OpenAI is testing a ChatGPT ad format that opens a branded AI conversation instead of sending a user to an advertiser’s website. The Sponsored Agent pilot lets selected advertisers attach a business agent to an ad, turning a call to action such as “Chat with us” into an in-product exchange. Wayfair has confirmed that it…
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Press release format: an annotated template for PR teams
A press release format should make the news easy to scan, verify, quote, and reuse. The structure is not decoration. It is a working interface between the organization issuing the news and the journalist deciding whether there is a story. That matters because reporters already receive more material than they can use. Cision’s 2026 State…
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Google is quietly paying publishers when their content shapes AI answers
Publishers have spent the past two years watching AI answers absorb information from the open web while the economics around that use remained unsettled. Now, according to Digiday, Google is reportedly paying some publishers when their content “significantly” contributes to AI-generated responses. Google confirmed to Digiday that the effort is an early-stage learning pilot, but…