Today, we’re bringing you the latest in AI-powered marketing and business strategies. Here’s what’s inside:

🚨 AI Top Story: Explore how AI is shifting from content generator to real-time analyst—and why human insight still leads.

📊 One Quick AI Hack: Turn Great AI Outputs Into Reusable Prompt Templates

🎯 AI Tool Of The Week: Meet Midjourney V7 & find out how to get early access

🌟 Creator Spotlight: Paul Couvert shares a step-by-step guide to building a FREE AI Agent on Google Vertex

Why the Best Campaigns Don’t Run on Autopilot

How Top Brands Pair AI With Human Strategy

Most of the buzz around AI in marketing has focused on content - how fast it can generate copy, images, or assets at scale. But the bigger shift is happening behind the scenes. AI is starting to reshape how campaigns are built, adapted, and improved as they run.

Today, marketing is less about set-it-and-forget-it campaigns, and more about staying responsive to what’s actually happening. AI makes it possible to track live behaviour; how users move through a page, when they bounce, what they ignore - and turn those signals into insight. It gives teams the kind of visibility that used to take days or weeks to gather.

From there, you’ve got options. If speed is the priority, AI can be set up to make quick refinements on the fly - tweaking creative, adjusting placements, or reallocating spend in real time.

But if accuracy and brand consistency matter more than chasing micro-optimisations, there’s a smarter play: let AI handle the analysis, and keep the final calls human.

In our opinion, this is a perfect example of where AI and humans can, and should, work together. AI handles the tracking, flags what’s changing, and spots early signals. But marketers still interpret what those changes mean, and decide how to respond in a way that aligns with tone, timing, and intent.

It’s also a shift in how teams use their time. When AI covers the reactive side, it frees marketers to focus on strategic thinking, story, and experience. Not just fixing problems faster, but designing better systems from the start.

Let AI do the monitoring, then apply human insight to decide how to act. That’s how you stay fast, without becoming mechanical.The best-performing campaigns right now aren’t just data-driven; they’re co-created.

AI does the watching. You do the thinking.

🛑 Google is allegedly paying some AI staff to do nothing for a year rather than join rivals - Google's betting that non-compete cash is cheaper than losing key AI talent to competitors.

🤖 Shopify CEO says staffers need to prove jobs can't be done by AI before asking for more headcount - Shopify's pushing a "default to automation" mindset across teams - human roles must be justified.

🛡️ New ways AI helps keep business information trustworthy - Google is using AI to fight fake reviews at scale—millions were removed last year alone.

🎯 The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise - How to Generate and Edit Visuals in ChatGPT

☕ AI Tangle - Meta's Llama 4 Launch Gets Off To a Rocky Start

Turn Great Outputs Into Reusable Prompt Templates

When ChatGPT gives you a strong result—don’t just copy the answer. Ask:
“Can you turn this into a reusable prompt template?”

It’ll break down the structure behind the task—goal, tone, format, constraints—so you can reuse, refine, or scale it across your team. Perfect for building consistency without starting from scratch every time.

Here’s an example of what it will give you:

A simple way to turn one good prompt into repeatable, strategic output.

PAUL COUVERT - A step-by-step guide to building a FREE AI Agent on Google Vertex

Meet Midjourney V7: The Most Versatile AI Image Model Yet

Midjourney’s latest release, V7, marks a huge leap forward in AI-generated imagery. Blending better realism, more flexible styling, and faster rendering in a redesigned alpha interface. It’s the most controllable, creatively adaptable version of Midjourney to date.

Why It’s a Game-Changer

If you’ve used Midjourney before, you know it’s powerful—but V7 gives you more of what matters: stylistic range, prompt responsiveness, and overall image quality. Whether you're mocking up campaign visuals, concepting product shots, or building a brand moodboard, V7 gives you stunning results with far less trial and error.

Key Features:

Massively Improved Style Range – V7 can go from hyper-real to abstract to editorial in a single prompt set. It’s genuinely multipurpose now.

Higher Consistency & Detail – Faces, hands, and composition are cleaner, more stable, and more accurate across variations.

Faster Rendering Speeds – Images generate quicker, even with complex prompts—ideal for fast-paced creative workflows.

New Alpha Interface – A sleek, browser-based UI with real-time image previews and easier upscaling tools (invite required).

More Prompt Control – Better responsiveness to adjectives, reference styles, and composition cues gives marketers far more creative precision.

Where to use Midjourney V7:

Platform: https://www.midjourney.com/app

Access: You must be an active Midjourney subscriber and receive an invite to use the V7 alpha

To get started with version 7, you'll need to unlock your new V7 Global Personalisation Profile. This means you'll need to rank at least 200 pairs of images by giving a simple like or dislike. It takes a bit of time, but it helps Midjourney learn your visual preferences and tailor results to your style. This is the first model with personalisation turned on by default.

Once that’s done, you can turn V7 on or off in the Midjourney web app, or through their Discord bot. Just select V7 from the version dropdown in the interface.

Once you've unlocked your Global Profile, you have the option to turn Personalisation off if you'd prefer.

Not yet available via: Discord (unlike previous versions)

Click here to read more about it!

Click here to try it out!

A very accurate visualisation of what those who refuse to integrate AI look like 🫠