Digital Marketing Trends and Trending Topics: August 8, 2025

Here are the current digital marketing trends, content ideas, trending topics, and the latest AI news on August 8, 2025:

Digital Marketing Trends and Content Ideas

When You Thought… is a rising trend. Post a video with a text overlay like “When you thought you secured your client”, sharing relatable commentary with your audience.
How It Feels… is a popular TikTok trend. Post a video with a text overlay like “How it feels knowing your business is doing $20k/month” or “How it feels when you made your first sale”, sharing wholesome clips with your audience.
Lemonade by Forrest Frank is a trending song on Instagram with 21k reels. Post wholesome lifestyle content, pairing it with this audio.
Copy This {X} – It’ll Blow Up Your Business… is a viral video idea for YouTube. Post a long-form video with a text overlay, such as “Copy this marketing strategy – it’ll blow up your business”.
If I Had To Start Over is a popular YouTube video idea. Post a long-form video with a title like “How I would build a business from zero to 7 figures (If I had to start over)”.
Bright by iDante is a top trending song on Instagram. Post content sharing your business life, fun activities, and hobbies, pairing it with this audio.

GPT-5 is a trending Google query, with over 200,000 searches in just 18 hours after OpenAI launched its newest and strongest AI model.
United Airlines is trending on Google, reaching over 200,000 searches in less than 24 hours after hundreds of flights were delayed due to a tech problem.
Full Moon is trending on Google search, with over 50,000 searches in just 20 hours after researchers reported that a meteor shower will occur around August 12-13.
Kristi Noem Dog is trending on Google, with over 20,000 searches in just 20 hours after the South Park episode “Get A Nut” aired, in which Kristi Noem runs around and shoots dogs, including Superman’s pup, Krypto.

Apple increased its US investment commitment to $600 billion with the new American Manufacturing Program. This will bring even more of Apple’s supply chain and manufacturing to the United States.
OpenAI officially launched GPT-5, its most advanced AI model yet.
xAI is building a next-gen video and world model.
OpenAI now provides ChatGPT to the entire U.S. Federal workforce, to help the government work more efficiently.
Google is giving college students its most advanced AI tools for free.
Microsoft integrated GPT-5 into consumer, developer, and enterprise offerings.

SoundHound – a voice AI platform that lets businesses add speech recognition and conversational AI to their products.
Wsup – a browser-based platform that lets users instantly chat with and create their own customizable AI characters – no signup or download needed.
Pony – an autonomous vehicle technology company developing driverless robotaxi and robotruck services using fully redundant AI systems.
Invideo – an online tool that turns text prompts into fully edited videos with scripts, voiceovers, and visuals.
Candy – an AI chatbot platform where you can build and personalize virtual companions.