Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year, and Happy / Merry / Joyful / Feliz festivities to whatever is brightening your upcoming days this time of year. You being here for others is a gift to the community as it continues to grow. Thank you for being with us. We will hold off on other updates and events until the week of January 5, but your community managers are standing by, so drop a line if you need anything. We may be a little slower to respond during our own recharge.

Missed our AI Insiders session with Jill Axline of Mavera? The replay is now live. Learn how synthetic research is replacing slow traditional methods, see AI-powered persona building and focus group simulation in action, and explore what responsible use of synthetic data really looks like. Watch here: https://youtu.be/qr_lgJtiiRs

Reminder: we’ve got a new AI matchmaker! Talk to Boardy on WhatsApp and meet some AIMG members! Try it out here and tell Boardy who you’re looking to meet: https://whatsapp.boardy.ai/ai-marketers-guild 

Meanwhile, be sure to keep tabs on our updates here:

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Jane: The latest AI Insiders session featuring Jill Axline, PhD, Co-Founder and CEO of Mavera, is now available. Jill provided a deep dive into synthetic research and how it is replacing traditional, slow-moving market research methods...

Evan: Buddy is looking for someone that can show him a working ads setup (prob meta) with SKAN/CAPI/Web optimization? He's working on a medical app that got categorized out of sdk eligibility.

Benjamin: Hello. I'm working with a company that needs prospect lists. Does anyone here have a reputable, reliable source? Thank you!

Kristina: Zoe Shealey, a recruiter in my network is hiring for a Head of Content & Education. She reached out to me to see if I was interested, (I would be but I'm not in a position to relocate to Ketchum, Idaho right now -home to Ernest Hemingway. FYI). Here is a link to the JD if anyone is interested.

Summer: CollabWORK is hiring a part-time Contract Content & Partner Ops Assistant to help run newsletters + job curation for partners like Morning Brew and our own Nurse Ascent newsletter.

Debra: Fidji Simo just published a new Substack describing how ChatGPT is adding visual creation studios, richer product research views, tappable entities and in-flow writing tools. They're all aimed at reducing friction between intent and action.

Jaime: Looks like authorized AI now has an industry term for legitimately sourcing your AI content - Pay to Crawl -

Lida: Would appreciate your engagement & support on this 'hot take' & AI feedback, happy holidays!

Benjamin: If you’re staring down an endless to‑do list or thousands of unread emails, you’re not failing—you’re just carrying too much. I’ve been working with Dispatch Tailor, which is offering limited New Year Relief Packages to help you tackle one big area e.g. inbox zero, a real vacation, a functional Family HQ, or a custom project.

Daniela: Hey folks! I helped organize a great webinar on Jan. 8th about security and AI apps featuring the CISO of Webflow. It's gonna be a great discussion around how to use AI apps within your org while still being mindful of privacy/security implications and Webflow’s take on how they manage this.

Cory: My newest newsletter post is live today, and it discusses how marketing teams scale with the best talent for the role in today's world with offshore and AI. The intention is to keep the team lean until you need to hire, and manage costs throughout the journey of start-up growth.

David: Just tried the Google Workspace slides-to-video tool where you take a deck and it makes it a video. This version had ZERO edits or custom instructions - just take the slides, make it a video.

David: With all the buzz about ChatGPT’s new image capabilities vs Gemini, I took a draft of my latest LinkedIn post and with no further direction asked each to create an image to accompany it. These are the first drafts - the list is ChatGPT. Whoa.