The NoGood Weekly Digest (8/10/26)
This week: Disney and TikTok's content deal, DoorDash's CringeMart, Tinder's IRL push and more
Hi NoGoodies,
We get it, you’re busy. So here’s our weekly digest to catch you up on all of the marketing news you may have missed this past week...
1. Disney just let TikTok fans write its next chapter.
Disney and TikTok announced a “first-of-its-kind” global content-sharing deal this week. Fan-made TikTok videos using Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters will now live inside Verts, Disney+’s vertical feed. The pilot launches in the U.S. first, with other markets to follow.
2. LinkedIn just gave brands a co-sign button.
LinkedIn rolled out Collaborative Posts globally, letting members and Company Pages post jointly with up to five other people or brands, listed as collaborators once they accept. It works across text, video, image, documents, polls, events, and celebration posts, which covers most of what shows up in a feed already. The format is a quiet fix for a problem LinkedIn has had for years: two brands or two people doing a partnership had no native way to show it as one post, so they’d just publish the same caption twice and hope the algorithm connected the dots.
3. MySpace’s owners are done pretending it’s dead.
Chris and Tim Vanderhook confirmed a MySpace relaunch this week, minus original co-founder Tom Anderson. The pitch leans on nostalgia rather than competing with algorithm-driven feeds, and the numbers already back it: the platform has grown from roughly 200,000 users a couple years ago as people tire of the scroll. No launch date, no mockups yet.
4. DoorDash’s new storefront sells the stuff you’d rather not buy in public.
DoorDash and agency Loop launched CringeMart, an in-app section for purchases people avoid making face to face: UTI treatments, laxatives, condoms, hemorrhoid cream. More than four million customers ordered from this category last year. Tana Mongeau fronts a hidden-camera series ambushing shoppers at checkout, while billboards in New York and LA run a live condom counter tied to real order data.
5. DuckDuckGo’s answer to smart glasses is glasses that aren’t smart.
DuckDuckGo teamed up with Knockaround on $35 sunglasses with no camera, no microphone, no AI, no battery. The pitch is built entirely on subtraction: infinite battery life because there’s no battery, zero notifications because there’s nothing to notify, and a jab at reports of Meta Ray-Ban footage ending up with overseas data labelers. \
6. Reddit is quietly retiring the internet’s oldest reputation score.
Reddit is rolling out AI moderation tools meant to make karma and account-age thresholds matter less for new users, shifting enforcement to an LLM-driven “Rules Hub” already tested in 700-plus communities. The move lands right after a mixed earnings call: $805 million in quarterly revenue, but a stock dip on soft search referral traffic.
7 Tinders fix for dating apps is fewer people using the app.
Match Group is expanding Tinder’s in-person Events feature from its LA pilot to 26 cities by September and 75 by year’s end. Monthly active users fell 7% last quarter, and Tinder hasn’t posted daily active user growth in three years. Nearly half of singles 18 to 29 want in-person connection but find the jump from app to real life hard to make, so Tinder is trying to own that gap.
Any other news we may have missed? Let us know in the comments!