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Democracy Did Not Die In Darkness, But A Formerly Important Newspaper Did

Associated Press reporters have been barred from the White House and Air Force One because the venerable media business refuses to change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. On the other side of the Constitutional issue is The Washington Post, which is doing whatever it can to please the nation's Supreme Ruler. (Are you surprised? The newspaper is owned by billionaire tech bro, Jeff Bezos. And if we've …

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Holding Companies Seek Even Greater Profits In New M&A Deal

Mergers and acquisitions—it's one way to grow a company beholden to its shareholders. Ad industry holding companies know all about it, given that they regularly acquire and then "hold" what were once independent and innovate agencies. Earlier this month in what could become the merger of all mergers, Omnicom announced its intentions to acquire Interpublic Group in a deal worth $31 billion. In their official press …

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How About We Strengthen the FTC’s Negative Option Rule?

How many recurring subscriptions do you have? And how many of these companies with your credit card info contact you before they automatically renew? Only a small percentage of my subscription-based relationships do me the favor (after I change my auto-renew preferences), and I imagine the same is true for you. The FTC uses the phrase “negative option marketing” broadly to refer to a category of commercial …

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Musk Rebranded Trump? That’s Not What Happened

Kyle Chayka is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He wrote a piece after the election about Elon Musk's impact on the Trump brand. Here's a small excerpt to chew on. It’s hard to overstate the success that a Trump-Musk axis has already had in rebranding Trump’s image.... In the company of Musk—redolent of angular Cybertrucks, reusable rockets, and humanity living on Mars—Trump appears not as an elderly, increasingly …

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A Major Unjust Threat

"The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted." - Statement on AI Training Musicians, actors, and writers worldwide are signing their names to a statement opposing artificial intelligence companies and developers using their work without a license. According to Billboard, the statement …

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“Dear Sydney” Ad from Google Gemini Ruffled A Few Feathers

Letter writing is a lost art. Think about it. When was the last time you handwrote or typed a personal letter and dropped it in the mail? When was the last time you received a real letter in the mail? Maybe Google's AI assistant (Gemini) can help to bring letter writing back into fashion. Seems like an innocent enough idea. Yet, the feel-good Team USA commercial where this idea is unveiled is receiving some …

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