Marketing News this Week: The Owned Channel Revolution, Email's Subscription Surge, Why Authenticity Just Won Social Media and Google's New Ad Category

Marketing news for the week of Jan 7th 2026. We’re covering four stories this week that all point to the same thing: owned channels are eating rented platforms for breakfast, paid email newsletter subscriptions jumped 138% last year while everyone was freaking out about social media algorithms. Authenticity just became non-negotiable on social media and Google adds a new ad category. Reference links if you want to dive deeper State of eMail Newsletters 2026 https://www.beehiiv.com/blog/...