What's New in Marketing This Week - May 6th
This post contains all the source links and expanded details from Edition #48 of our weekly Marketing Roundup newsletter.
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This week we talked about:
- Project Management & Workflow: Notion AI can now search your Slack conversations.
- Advertising Updates: Meta lets you send your ads data directly into Claude or ChatGPT, and Google Ads API v20 is shutting down June 10.
- Creator Economy & Social Updates: LinkedIn’s Event Ad format now works for off-platform events, and YouTube is testing conversational search for Premium users.
- AI Advancements: OpenAI launched Advanced Account Security for ChatGPT.
Note: This is just the news and links.
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Notion AI Can Search Slack Conversations
Notion AI Can Search
Slack Conversations
Notion launched a Slack AI Connector that lets you search your Slack messages directly from inside Notion. Once connected, you can ask Notion AI questions about what’s happened in your Slack channels — summaries from specific time periods, updates from while you were out, or information buried in conversations — without leaving Notion. It can access public channels, and individual users can also connect their private channels and DMs.
Meta Launches AI Ad Connectors for External Chatbots
Meta Launches AI
Ad Connectors for
External Chatbots
Meta released a new set of AI connectors that let brands feed their Meta ads data directly into external AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT — no API setup, developer credentials, or coding required. Once connected, you can ask your preferred AI questions about campaign performance, manage ads, and generate product catalogs using natural language, all from inside the tool you already use.
Google Ads API v20 Ends June 10
Google Ads API v20
Ends June 10
Google is officially retiring Google Ads API v20 on June 10, 2026. After that date, all requests to v20 will fail — meaning any tools, scripts, or automations built on it will stop working entirely.
LinkedIn Expands Event Ads to Off-Platform Events
LinkedIn Expands Event Ads
to Off-Platform Events
LinkedIn now lets marketers use its native Event Ad format to promote events hosted outside of LinkedIn — including webinars, field events, and hybrid experiences. Previously, LinkedIn’s Event Ad tools were primarily built for LinkedIn-hosted events. Now you can use the same format, including event-based CTAs, accelerated delivery, and lead gen objectives, to drive registrations to your own landing pages and registration forms without needing a LinkedIn Event Details page.
YouTube Tests Conversational Search
YouTube Tests
Conversational Search
YouTube is testing an “Ask YouTube” feature that lets users search conversationally instead of typing keywords. Instead of getting a list of videos, you ask a question and get a structured response that combines long-form videos, Shorts, and informational text — all pulled together into one answer. You can then ask follow-up questions to go deeper. The experiment is currently available to YouTube Premium members 18+ in the U.S. who opt in at youtube.com/new.
OpenAI Launches Advanced Account Security
OpenAI Launches Advanced
Account Security
OpenAI released a new opt-in security feature called Advanced Account Security for ChatGPT accounts. Once enabled, it replaces password-based login with passkeys or physical security keys, disables email and SMS account recovery in favor of stronger methods, shortens active sessions to reduce exposure, and automatically excludes your conversations from model training.
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