What Marketers Need To Know About Video Games On Social Media

Gaming isn’t just another audience segment. It’s one of the largest cultural ecosystems on the internet, and social media is where its influence compounds. In the recent Video Games State of Social Webinar, ListenFirst’s Gaming Lead Brooke Argentum shared exclusive insights on how video game publishers are performing on social, audience trends, and best practices […]

What Social Media Bans for Kids Could Mean for Marketing

As governments move to restrict youth access to social media, marketers should pay attention to what changes when platforms become increasingly adult spaces. For years, conversations about children and social media have centered on mental health, screen time, and online safety. Now, those debates are becoming public policy. In the past week, Pew Research found […]

Quick Dip: Tung Tung Tung Sahur

Tung Tung Tung Sahur: TikTok’s strangest meme characters are not random. They are what happens when culture, AI, sound, and algorithmic repetition collapse into one extremely cursed wooden man. Tung Tung Tung Sahur looks like something a sleep-deprived internet invented because it had no other choice. A wooden humanoid figure. A stick. A chant-like name. […]

The State of Instagram in 2026: Reach Is Not a Posting Strategy

Instagram’s discovery model is changing fast, and brands still optimizing for yesterday’s feed are already behind. Get the full breakdown on what reach, relevance, SEO, and content performance actually mean in 2026. Download your copy below and check out the deep dive for even more details about what you can implement today to stop the […]

AI Slop: When the Internet Drowns in Synthetic Junk

AI Didn’t Create Slop. It Industrialized It. AI slop is what happens when production outpaces imagination. AI slop was easy to laugh at when it looked like Shrimp Jesus, cat soap operas, fake “great photography” posts, and dead-eyed content farms dressed up as creativity. It had a clear visual language: too glossy, too weird, too […]

Meghan Trainor: The Social Risk of a Rebrand That Doesn’t Feel Owned

Meghan Trainor’s new album & era became a case study in what happens when audiences start treating pop rollouts like brand audits. Meghan Trainor may have canceled The Get In Girl Tour for personal reasons. But on social media, the cancellation was quickly absorbed into a more embarrassing narrative: another pop artist overestimated demand, booked […]