The Latest AI News and Current TikTok Trends: May 16, 2025
Here are the most current TikTok trends, latest AI news, and the top Google searches related to digital marketing on May 16, 2025:
Current Social Media Trends
- Pinterest: Here are some rising seasonal Pinterest trends so far. Among them are nail design inspos, graduation outfits, hairstyles, and tattoos.
- The Tesla Optimus Dancing Robot is viral on Shorts, Reels, and X with relatable quotes, funny situations, and just because.
- Pretty Little Baby by Connie Francis is a trending sound on TikTok for all types of videos, from romance and lip-syncs, to showing off babies and pairing it with relatable situations, that have nothing to do with the song itself.
- Exposing Men’s Jawlines has been a recent social media trend where men reveal their jawlines under thick beards. It’s quite hilarious! 🤣
- Inner Monologue is a trend in which people share their thoughts with a text overlay while doing mundane activities like sitting in an office, typing a text message, or just existing.
- YouTube: Check out these trending YouTube videos to get ideas for content and camera angles and gain insight into what people are searching for most today.
- AR Ads have been trending on Facebook lately.
Google Search Trends
- Business and Finance: PPI, Coinbase, and Economic Calendar are trending today.
- Technology: Aston Martin CarPlay Ultra and Risk Management are trending search queries.
- AI: AI Marketing Software, Google Gemini, Text-to-Image Model, Arrive AI, AI Story Generator Free, Haiper AI, Cohere AI, AI Song Generator Free, AI Response Generator, Adobe AI Image Generator, ElevenLabs, and Character AI are breakout searches today.
- Advertising: YouTube Ads Are Out of Control, Point and Click, Monetization, Google Ads Editor Download, Paramount Ads Manager, Google Shopping Ads Agency, Google Ads API, Ads of the World, Vons Ads, Instagram Ads Cost, Instagram Ads Agency, and Facebook Ads Management are spiking searches.
- Marketing: Field Marketing, What is Inbound Marketing, ICP Marketing, Amazon Affiliate Marketing Program, Marketing Campaign Examples, and What is Content Marketing are search queries trending today.
Business, Tech, and AI News
- YouTube plans to add new ad formats, including CTV ads for shopping with an interactive product feed.
- Google announced new updates for Chrome and Android. The updates will bring more AI-powered innovation, improve speech recognition, and make Chrome more accessible.
- Google Marketing Live is coming up next week on May 21. Register here.
- Gemini released some Canvas updates. You can now build on top of others’ creations and prompt to make apps that use your camera and mic.
- YouTube might be training Gemini to identify moments when the viewers’ attention is highest and placing ads right after said moments.
- ManusAI (an autonomous AI agent) introduced image generation. It promises to understand your intent and plan a solution to execute your task effectively.
- TikTok is launching in-app meditation for all of its users. This feature aims to help people, especially young ones, wind down for the night and get off the app.
- Threads rolled out some updates to links on users’ profiles and insights. You can now add up to 5 links to your bio and gain insights and tips to help you expand your reach.
- Apple introduced CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay that combines the best of the iPhone and the best of the car. Aston Martin is the first to receive it.
- ElevenLabs introduced the SB-1 Infinite Soundboard. Describe the sounds you would like to hear, and the soundboard will create them for you.
- Microsoft is laying off 3% of its workforce to fund an 80 billion AI push by the end of 2025.
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