16 2026 April
Four Brilliant Marketing Stories from the Coachella Festival
It’s the middle of the “consumer wonderland” of The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the desert experience drawing over 125,000 visitors annually across two...
Read Now23 2026 March
Huggies Expensive Sh*t and the Age of Experiential Advertising
Stunts are nothing new in the world of marketing, but they are not usually done via live streaming nor include quite so specific of a...
Read Now10 2026 March
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Superbloom by Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr is a well-known thinker and Pulitzer Prize winner who writes about how the Internet has affected our brains. In his latest book published...
Read Now30 2025 December
The Quantified Uselessness of the AI-Generated Year in Review
There’s a special kind of uselessness amplified by AI that’s probably surrounding you right now: the year in review. The idea wasn’t a bad one....
Read Now24 2025 September
The Tuna Cans Film Festival: A Perfect Throwback Marketing Strategy?
Would you make a movie about a can of tuna? Inspired by the Cannes Film Festival, Bumble Bee launched the Tuna Cans Film Festival – a search...
Read Now02 2023 December
How Citizen Surveillance Might Be Killing San Francisco
There was a time when I would travel to San Francisco every week for a client meeting. During that moment of my career, I felt...
Read Now16 2022 September
New Global Study Reveals the Emojis That Make You More (Or Less) Attractive
Forget the best and worst pickup lines, now thanks to Adobe all single people have some data on the emojis to use (and which ones to avoid) when trying to appear more attractive.
Read Now16 2022 June
How To Archive Yourself In the Digital Age
This article helped me consider the value of discarding that archive so I can move beyond the past version of myself that it commemorates. No doubt it is easier to become a better person when your past self isn't just a resurfaced tweet away.
Read Now18 2019 February
The Real Reason Influencers Make So Much Money
Everyone wants to be an online influencer, because it seems to pay well, but who is really benefiting? This article from the USA Today actually takes the...
Read Now01 2018 November
How To Cure Your Social Media Addiction
This was a week filled with more social media stupidity than usual. In a single day I read two disturbing stories that got me thinking...
Read Now19 2018 September
Is the Body Positive Movement Really A Good Thing?
Today there are plenty of examples of campaigns to help people become comfortable with their own bodies. Yet some have criticized this body positive movement as perhaps...
Read Now09 2018 September
How To Tell If You’re An Asshole (And Why It’s So Hard)
Last week a small army of cruise ship passengers disrupted a funeral in the tiny Norwegian city of Honningsvåg and took pictures of the mourners. According to The...
Read Now23 2018 August
Why Facebook Rating Your Trustworthiness Is Good News
The Washington Post story this week revealing the “previously unreported ratings system” used by Facebook to rate the trustworthiness of users on a scale of zero...
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