This week on Market Intel: Google slashes the cost and speed of AI image and video generation, LinkedIn builds AI ad creation directly into Campaign Manager, and Klaviyo turns customer data into ready-to-launch campaigns. Here's what SMB content marketers need to know.

In this episode:

• Google Nano Banana 2 Lite & Gemini Omni Flash — Google's fastest, cheapest image model yet (four-second generation, $0.034 per 1K images) paired with a new video preview model at $0.10/second. Key takeaway: cheap creative concepting is here, but Omni Flash is still preview-stage with continuity limits — use it for testing, not final hero footage.
• LinkedIn AI Creative Tools for Campaign Manager — Brand kit, Draft with AI, and AI ad variants launched July 1st, targeting the ad-creative bottleneck for small and growing B2B businesses. Key takeaway: advertisers running 5+ ad variants see 20%+ higher CTR — this makes variant testing native to the platform.
• Klaviyo Composer & Customer Agent — Klaviyo's AI marketing agent moves to public beta, auditing flows and building cross-channel campaigns from 14 years of customer context. Key takeaway: best fit for ecommerce teams with existing flow and segment history in Klaviyo.

Timestamps:

00:00 – Start

01:14 – Story 1: Google Nano Banana 2 Lite & Gemini Omni Flash

03:52 – Story 2: LinkedIn AI Creative Tools for Campaign Manager

05:58 – Story 3: Klaviyo Composer & Customer Agent

08:05 – Quick Hits (Square, AGNT LAB, Claude Sonnet 5, MarTech roundup, Google Meet)

09:20 – Closing Recap

Sources referenced in this episode:

• Google AI Blog, June 30, 2026: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-omni-flash-nano-banana-2-lite/
• Google Cloud Blog, June 30, 2026: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/nano-banana-2-lite-and-gemini-omni-flash-available
• TechCrunch, June 30, 2026: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/google-introduces-a-faster-cheaper-image-generator-with-nano-banana-2-lite/
• LinkedIn Marketing Blog, July 1, 2026: https://www.linkedin.com/business/marketing/blog/linkedin-ads/introducing-linkedins-new-creative-tools-draft-with-ai-brand-kit-and-ad-variants
• Social Media Today, July 1, 2026: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-rolls-out-new-ai-powered-promotional-tools/824290/
• Business Wire via Yahoo Finance, June 30, 2026: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/klaviyo-launches-ai-agents-together-090000322.html
• Klaviyo Blog, June 30, 2026: https://www.klaviyo.com/blog/klaviyo-composer-customer-agent-launch
• Square Press Release, July 1, 2026: https://squareup.com/us/en/press/claude-chatgpt-integrations
• PRWeb, July 1, 2026: https://www.prweb.com/releases/agnt-lab-officially-launches-ai-agent-for-social-media-use-nationwide-302815746.html
• Anthropic Claude Sonnet, June 30, 2026: https://www.anthropic.com/claude/sonnet
• MarTech, July 2, 2026: https://martech.org/the-latest-ai-powered-martech-news-and-releases/
• Google Blog, June 29, 2026: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/take-notes-for-me/

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