Here are the latest digital marketing trends to get more leads, viral content ideas, and big tech news on October 9, 2025:
Social Media Trends and Content Ideas
- Budgeting Hacks are trending on TikTok. Post a video with a text overlay like “Budgeting hacks for small business owners”, and share valuable niche-specific budgeting tips and advice with your audience.
- Blissful Lights by voi is a growing TikTok song with over 11k videos. Pair this audio with relatable commentary that resonates with your audience.
- AI Homeless Prank is going viral on social media. Post a video of yourself sending pictures of an AI-generated homeless man to your boss, friend, or partner, pranking them into believing you let a random person into your house, office, or car.
- Sora 2 Videos are going viral on social media. Post videos using the Sora 2 tool to create funny marketing videos that resonate with your target audience.
- Autumn Days by Morunas is a trending Instagram song with over 130k reels. Pair this calm audio with nature-related content.
Trending Google Search Queries
- SpaceX Launch is trending on Google, rising 1,000% in just 17 hours after the company launched 28 Starlink satellites.
- AST Spacemobile is trending, with over 10,000 searches in just 10 hours after Verizon signed a deal with the company to provide cellular service from space.
- World Cup Qualifiers is a trending search, gaining over 10,000 searches in just three hours as fans rush to see which teams have officially secured their spot in the tournament.
Top Business and Marketing Books
- The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins offers a clear, proven roadmap to financial independence through simplicity, long-term investing, and freedom from financial stress.
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss reveals FBI-level negotiation tactics that help readers influence, persuade, and resolve conflicts in business and everyday life.
- The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel examines the impact of our relationship with money on happiness, teaching readers how to spend intentionally for a more fulfilling life.
Tech News and AI Developments
- Google has launched Gemini CLI extensions, allowing developers to personalize their terminals with AI-powered integrations from top partners, including Figma, Stripe, Shopify, and more.
- Salesforce expanded Agentforce with new AI-powered security and compliance tools that proactively detect threats, automate risk management, and streamline data privacy workflows for enterprises.
- Anthropic appoints former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as its new Chief Technology Officer to strengthen Claude’s infrastructure and meet growing enterprise demand.
- SoftBank partnered with Oracle to launch Japan’s first sovereign AI and cloud platform powered by Oracle Alloy, ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable infrastructure for critical sectors.
- TikTok unveiled major automation and measurement updates at Advertising Week New York 2025, providing advertisers with smarter tools, greater control, and enhanced insight into campaign performance.
Trending AI Tools
- PolyBuzz AI – an AI character chat platform where you can talk with, create, and role-play with personalized virtual characters.
- Wsup – a free, browser-based AI chat platform that lets you talk with customizable AI “characters”.
- Comet – an AI-powered web browser that embeds a smart assistant to help you search, summarize, automate tasks, and navigate the web more intuitively.
- Perchance – offers a browser-based character and story generator that lets you describe a persona and instantly receive a full character profile and image.
- Scale – a data-centric AI company that provides high-quality labeled training data, model evaluation, fine-tuning, and full-stack tooling to power machine learning and generative AI applications.
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