People passing around the 60 Minutes CECOT piece like teenage boys from the 1980s passing around their dad's Playboy issues, and YouTube cannot take down ripped copies fast enough.
Here's one that's interesting: a video of the video.
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“The hype, combined with continued uncertainty of how long the Oasis reunion might last, likely makes it all the more appealing for brands to show up and celebrate along with die-hard fans.”
www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2025...
The pivot from part-time influencer with a normal job to a full time influencers is often a difficult transition, @kristinam.bsky.social reports.
When I was younger, I was dumb and wanted to be famous. Now that I'm older, hell no.
www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2025...
for this week’s edition of Creative Pursuits, I looked at the use of nostalgia to market A24’s Materialists, the strategy the studio employed (Mastercard spoof and throwback narration) and how audience expectation versus reality can be tricky to navigate
kristinamonllos.substack.com/p/mastercard...
don't think i've posted this on here yet but i'm writing on substack now. created a publication called Creative Pursuits that will still cover advertising but also get into the creative process.
pls check it out and subscribe here:
kristinamonllos.substack.com
people talking about the number of followers they had on Twitter vs here and about the sort of posting they did over there that worked vs on Bluesky and from the bottom of my heart:
I'm quoted in @digidaymedia.bsky.social via @kristinam.bsky.social today about the massive changes in digital + social that happened in the first 100 days of President Trump’s term and what marketers are doing to adapt, leverage, and match pace. digiday.com/marketing/ma...
54.7 .... 5.5.
A tiny picture on the front page of the NYT and WaPo front pages today.
Democracy happening in broad daylight and our most widely-read media outlets decide to not put this as a most import story.
Lots of local newspapers did, though.
Two at random: Detroit Free Press and
Does #SXSW matter anymore? Is it too big? Why do you make such a big deal about it, Greg?
Shared some thoughts with @kristinam.bsky.social at @digidaymedia.bsky.social ⤵️
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Whoever described generative AI as the aesthetic of fascism made a sharp point.
For this week's @digidaymedia.bsky.social Marketing Briefing, I spoke to social strategists and consultants to understand the state of social media guardrails.
TLDR: It's all about a brands' risk tolerance. Read on at the link in the comments.
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Olipop's comments about Poppi got me thinking about the state of social media guidelines for brands. Duolingo became a social media darling for its more unhinged social posts. But how unhinged can -- or should -- brands get?
Super Bowl spots seem to be going the way of seasonal marketing, rolling out earlier and earlier each year.
This year's Big Game spots were deemed a bit lackluster. Is the early rollout to blame?
@kristinam.bsky.social answers that in this week's Marketing Briefing:
Googles response basically being “it’s not making things up, it’s just incapable of telling facts from made up bullshit” would have destroyed a product in the days before the economy was propped up by a thin framework of scams lashed together with investment capital
like what is anyone supposed to do with this when you open any app and see this shit immediately
I have reported on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in various fields for several years. DEIA just means acknowledging how systems have discriminated against different groups of people—in many cases for several decades—and strategic efforts to give those people jobs and opportunities.
would be interesting if everyone treated this exactly the way republicans would if this happened in the first 10 days of a democratic administration - just wall to wall 'this is what happens when an incompetent admin is in charge' regardless of the truth on the ground
Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.
one of the best podcasts out there
one day there will be a diary entry about you posting his diary online
And if you’re over 50, get the (two!) shingles vaccines. Yes, it can have temporary side effects. But you *do not* want to get shingles. Ask anyone who’s had it.
Cicadas have it right. I'm tunneling underground. See you in 17 years to scream for a while.
I'm jealous that you got to see The Cure two times on this latest tour. (I saw them in Chicago and have that poster.) Hopefully they tour the new record and come round again!
that was lovely!
this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.
If you made a horror movie where killer cars killed more than a million people worldwide, folks would laugh.
Turns out, “Around 1.2 million people die from road injuries every year. That’s around 2.3% of deaths from all causes.”
ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
The tech space has done everyone a disservice by clumping machine learning (actually useful), LLMs (jury's out on how useful) and some kind of promised future AGI (almost certainly vaporware) in the same AI bucket, and increasingly sweaty leaders in the space like Altman sure aren't helping