Republican Accountability PAC to Invest $50M to Defeat Trump

Is the GOP on the verge of collapse? I doubt it, but there are obvious signs of decay, including the fact that a substantial chunk of Republican primary and caucus voters told pollsters that they would be so dissatisfied if Donald Trump became the party’s presidential nominee—and it looks like he will—that they would not […]

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TikTok Tells The Story of Its Satisfied Customers on TV

TikTok’s rising popularity is a dangerous threat to national security. TikTok must be banned. That’s the conclusion of lawmakers and university presidents who want to restrict access to the site. These lawmakers and academic leaders fear the Chinese firm that owns TikTok will collude with the Chinese government and use the data it collects from […]

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What Can We Learn from MrBeast’s Brand of “Stunt Philanthropy”?

Do you know MrBeast? His real name is Jimmy Donaldson and his YouTube channel has 217M subscribers. His latest video, which I’m posting below, has 86,434,314 views since debuting five days ago. The video also has a ‘live read’ and product demonstration (at 11 minutes, 10 seconds) featuring Shopify and Kanga Coolers. It’s an old-school […]

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Thriller: Ryan Gosling Escapes with A New TAG Heuer Carrera

Actors. They’re always acting. Ryan Gosling, for instance. Even when he’s lifting an expensive timepiece, he’s acting like it’s no big deal. But it is a big deal. No one—not even a Hollywood movie star—walks off with a TAG Heuer Carrera and gets away with it. The watches in this heritage collection from TAG Heuer […]

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Keep Bastrop Boring

Bastrop County is a fast-growing neighbor to Travis County—the home of Austin, the University of Texas, the state capitol, Austin FC, Austin City Limits, Oracle, Tesla, and so on. Bastrop is also directly downriver from Tesla’s new world headquarters and car-making factory. When Elon Musk moved from California to Texas, his Boring Company quickly set […]

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You Can Shoot A Film In Low Light on the New Samsung Galaxy S22

To help promote its new low-light camera capabilities, Samsung UK created “Nocturnal Narratives,” three short films, directed by Will Robson-Scott. Equipped with the Galaxy S22 Ultra Nightography features, Robson-Scott and Samsung brought to light the work of Dalston-based florist My Lady Garden, pioneering boxer Safiyyah ‘The Hijabi Boxer’ Syeed, and underground music collective, Keep Hush. […]

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Ed-Tech Predictions for 2022

Brainly, the world’s largest online learning platform and homework help community, is delivering predictions for the future of EdTech in the new year. AI-Enabled Adaptive Learning The growth of technological capabilities means that a variety of media and learning-support tools now exist to help students receive a high-quality education through the Internet. Teachers can appreciate […]

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Not Compassionate: Medical Marijuana Patients Face Pointless Barriers in Texas

The Texas Compassionate Use Program was first established in 2015, allowing the use of high-CBD, low-THC cannabis oil only for Texans diagnosed with intractable epilepsy. Though legal, marijuana is still classified as a Schedule 1 drug and is not covered by insurance. As a result, the cost for treatment can range from $250 to $1,000 […]

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Feather’s Story Is The Story of Our Time

Agency MABU in Bismark, ND created a beautiful animated video for its pro-bono client, National Congress of American Indians. “Feather’s Story” is the first-person account of a child’s struggle with the negativity and chaos of the modern world. The combination of a child’s story, watercolors, stunning animation, traditional dance, and original song combine to make […]

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Words Matter; Ergo, The Content That Fortifies Dictionary.com Matters

Words. There are so many of them. It’s hard to know them all or to know what they all mean. We used to have a dictionary and thesaurus nearby to look up unknown words. Today, we make a quick visit to Dictionary.com to confirm our hunch, or to get the official version. For instance, here’s […]

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Ad Chatter (The Pilot)

Two advertising dudes pull up a chair and Zoom in. What do we talk about? Commercial outputs during pandemic times—not all are created equal. Push play to hear me and Seattle copywriter Dan Goldgeier discuss a spot from Farmer’s Insurance that we both like, a new and different spot from GoDaddy, and two funny spots […]

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Meet Li Ziqi, A Bohemian Chic Capitalist from the Mountains of Sichuan Province

Meet Li Ziqi. The 29-year-old is one of China’s biggest social media stars. She has 22 million followers on the microblogging site Weibo, 34 million on Douyin, and another 8.3 million on YouTube (which is banned in China). Ziqi lives in the village of northwestern Pingwu, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, China. She began posting rustic-chic […]

Did You Know That Bon Appétit Has 4.61M Subscribers on YouTube?

People love food-focused programming. Yet, many food brands rely on TV to carry their messages, which is an expensive way to build an audience of buyers. San Antonio-based grocer H-E-B, one of the nation’s largest family-owned businesses with 350 stores throughout Texas and northeast Mexico run lots of TV commercials but only has 32K subscribers […]

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Five Hot Mods for Your 2019 Chevy Silverado

In this episode of “The Haul” from AmericanTrucks, host Sara Riordan selects five aftermarket parts for the all-new 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. GM’s bigger, lighter, and more powerful Silverado pickup is more efficient than previous models thanks to a complete redesign for the 2019 model year. With these enhancements for the completely new fourth-generation Silverado […]

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Åsk Wäppling’s Adland Torpedoed By “Nuisance DMCA”

Åsk Wäppling is a warrior in the midst of a legal battle to preserve 20 years of her digital work. Thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the lawyers who misuse it to intimidate everyday citizens, Adland.tv is now offline. DMCA criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures […]

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It’s Not Stock, It’s Shutterstock (Which Means, It Is Stock)

Stock images are hard to “own.” That’s because anyone can buy them and render your singular look obsolete in a few keystrokes. Nevertheless, creative teams are tasked with tight production schedules and shallow budgets, which forces their mouse hands. There’s Stock, And There’s Shutterstock Shutterstock claims to know that “creative professionals are busy, but they […]

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Taylor Swift Tells The Haters To Calm Down

Taylor Swift’s new pro-Pride release, “You Need To Calm Down,” has been on YouTube for just 24 hours and already the music video has been viewed more than 20 million times. The vibrantly colored, surreal video features her reunion with Katy Perry along with cameo appearances from Ellen Degeneres, Ryan Reynolds, Dexter Mayfield, Laverne Cox, […]

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Just Google It: 7 Questions Every CMO Wants To Know

Google-owned YouTube is a wasteland, but like all wastelands, when you brush aside the layers of dirt and debris, you’re in the position to discover a gem or two. The video that follows may not meet gem status, but it is a find worth noting here. Tara Walpert Levy is VP of Agency and Brand […]

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Two Cost-Effective Ways To Boost Customer Engagement

Editor’s Note: This is a sponsored post. Customer engagement. These two words are on the tips of marketing communications executive’s tongues from coast to coast today. Without significant and meaningful customer engagement, marketing programs die a silent death. When that happens Chief Marketing Officers and others are forced to find new jobs. Know Your Audience and […]

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Relax, With WordPress You Can Do Anything

WordPress is the world’s most dominant content management system. According to W3techs, WordPress has 58.55% of the CMS market share — more than all other systems (eg, Drupal, Joomla) combined. Did you know that some of the most successful companies in the world prefer WordPress as their CMS, including TED, NBC, CNN, TechCrunch, People magazine, the NFL, […]

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