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Why Pinterest’s is encouraging people to get off their phones
“How did they live their lives without posting about it? How did they know they liked something if the thing they thought they liked hadn’t already gotten any likes?”These are questions a young girl asks in a Pinterest anthem film released last month, against a backdrop of retro home movies and archival footage from Pinterest employees. So far, the film…
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The best jokes from this year’s upfronts
Ah, the upfronts. The best week of the year to miss your family’s Mother’s Day celebrations, have a cocktail or thirty, and hear some of the most iconic comedians on television pretend to understand what…
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
Meta is beefing up its age-verification mechanisms with an AI system that analyzes images and videos on Instagram and Facebook for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure, to identify and delete accounts of…
Coworking with Charlie Tetrick
Each week, we spotlight Marketing Brew readers in our Coworking series. If you’d like to be featured, introduce yourself here.Charlie Tetrick is president and CEO of WTA, a Kansas City-based advertising agency.How would you describe…
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
Employees at Google DeepMind in London have voted to unionize as part of a bid to block the AI lab from providing its technology to the US and Israeli militaries.In a letter addressed to Google’s…
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ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’
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Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla
A few months before Elon Musk left OpenAI’s board of directors in February 2018, he tried to recruit Sam Altman…
How jewelry brand Gorjana found its place in sports
It’s a big weekend for jewelry brand Gorjana. Mothers and daughters are a major part of its audience, and with…
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Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA.Researchers tasked people with solving various problems, including simple fractions and reading comprehension, through an online…
How the WNBA brought on blue-chip sponsors amid CBA negotiation uncertainty
The WNBA’s 28th season in 2024 was a break-out one, marking the pro debut of several bona fide superstars as fans and sponsors rushed the league.The 29th season in 2025, though, was even bigger. There was more record-breaking viewership and further sponsorship changes, with brands signing bigger deals with longer…
How IAB Sweden expelled Meta—and why it might not happen in other chapters anytime soon
Meta is officially no longer part of IAB Sweden. After the organization expelled the company as a member due to concerns about the company’s handling of fraudulent advertisements, Meta did not appeal the decision at an April 15 meeting.The decision to boot Meta from the group was more than a…
UAE to Exit OPEC After Nearly 60 Years
The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC and OPEC+ effective May 1, ending a membership that began in 1967—four years before the UAE was founded as a country. This signals a turning point in the UAE's role in global energy.The government statement, published on state news agency…
How meat-snack marketers are meeting the moment
Give Grogu a meat jerky snack, and you get a meat-cute for the ages.In a recent 30-second spot for Archer Jerky and The Mandalorian and Grogu, Disney’s latest feature film installment in the Star Wars franchise, Baby Yoda’s penchant for snacking powers the marketing message for the individually packaged jerky.…
US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army’s special forces, for allegedly using “classified, nonpublic” information about the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to notch more than $400,000 in profits on Polymarket trades. A grand jury indicted…
How the Portland Fire marketed a basketball team with no players
How do you market a sports team without any players?It’s an age-old question for expansion teams, and one that Kimberly Veale, SVP of marketing and communications for the WNBA’s Portland Fire, has had to answer twice in the past couple of years—she joined the Fire from 2025 expansion team the…
This Indigenous Language Survived Russian Occupation. Can It Survive YouTube?
When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language. The Central Asian country of 7 million people was under Russian control for a century until 1991, but Kyrgyz (pronounced…
Inside legal AI startup Legora’s celebrity and sports partnerships playbook
Marketers have long relied on Hollywood’s leading men for endorsements. Think Daniel Craig for Loewe, Robert Pattinson for Dior, or Matthew McConaughey for Lincoln.Now, the Swedish legal AI startup Legora has Jude Law.Last month, Legora debuted a campaign centered around the idea that “law just got more attractive.” Law, for…
Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’
Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s earnings call on Thursday that it could take “several months” to meet skyrocketing demand for the Mac Mini, the company’s compact but mighty, screen-free desktop computer. Cook’s remarks come after coders determined in recent months that the Mac Mini was the perfect…
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Google rolls out new tools to automate even more marketing
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How Dallas’ WNBA team is spreading its sponsorship wings this season
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