Marketing Trends and AI News You Missed On August 27

Here are the latest digital marketing trends, content ideas, AI news, and tech announcements on August 27, 2025:

Cracker Barrel released a statement supporting its recent logo rebrand, but just two days later, it caved to viral pressure. The old logo is back! This is a viral topic.
Yep, That’s Me… is a rising social media trend. Share a clip of something funny happening to you, then cut the video to moments before that incident, showing how it led up to that moment.
The Art Of… is a popular YouTube trend. Post a video like “The Art of Marketing” or “The Art of Selling.” Share valuable lessons and insights from your niche.
Nobody: My {X}… is a popular TikTok trend. Post a video with the text overlay “Nobody:” Then, under it, put another text overlay like “My friend when he got his first sale”. Recreate those funny or embarrassing moments to resonate with your audience.
When You Realize… is a rising trend. Post a video like “When you realize you start doing things like your dad does” or “When you realize you’re becoming another guru”, tailoring your video to your niche and sharing relatable commentary.

Taylor Swift is trending with over 2 million searches in just 4 hours after she revealed that she got engaged to Travis Kelce.
Haboob is a trending query, reaching over 100,000 searches less than a day after a haboob, a towering wall of dust, swept past Phoenix, followed by thunderstorms that tore through the city.
Starbucks is a rising search, with over 50,000 searches in just 11 hours after the iconic pumpkin spice lattes returned for the upcoming fall season.
Cadillac F1 is a rising query, shooting up 400% to 20,000 searches in just 9 hours after Cadillac confirmed its driver lineup for its debut Formula 1 campaign.
Lisa Cook is trending on Google, with over 100,000 searches in less than a day after Donald Trump ordered the removal of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook.
Carlos Alcaraz is trending, reaching over 100,000 searches in just 22 hours after he appeared with a shocking shaved haircut in his U.S Open tennis match.

Latest AI News and Tech Announcements

NoteBookLM’s video overviews are now available in 80 languages.
Google now lets retailers showcase loyalty perks like member-only prices and shipping in listings.
Samsung will unveil its AI Home vision at IFA 2025. The innovations will include Micro RGB TV, Bespoke AI appliances, and new devices for Galaxy AI. All products will connect to SmartThings, delivering a unique AI Home experience.
Google has integrated its new image editing model from Google DeepMind into the Gemini App.
Instagram now lets U.S college students add their university to their profile picture via UNiDAYS verification, allowing students to meet their classmates and build a digital community.
Spotify introduced Messages, where you can share your favorite music and podcasts with your family and friends.

PolyBuzz – a private chatbot platform for unlimited roleplay with millions of characters.
Grubby AI – a tool that rewrites AI-generated text to make it read like it was written by a real person while helping reduce detection by AI-detection systems.
Granola – an AI notepad that enhances your raw meeting notes with transcriptions, summaries, and helpful insights.
Qwen – Alibaba Cloud’s open-weight language model built for multilingual tasks, coding, long-context, and multimodal use.
Janitor AI – a chatbot platform for roleplaying and chatting with customizable AI characters.
Perchance – a browser-based platform for creating random generators—like character creators, image generators, or text writers.