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The Real Reason HBO Is Waiting 4 Days to Share Clips of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
HBO announced they will now force people to wait four days before sharing on YouTube the highlights from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Of course, fans of...
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Instead of Binge Watching, Why Not Try “Stinge Watching”?
Last month my wife and I binge watched For All Mankind on Apple+. The show was highly original, smartly written and now that we’re done...
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Mickey Mouse Enters the Public Domain … Here’s What It Means
The first big meme of the year is Mickey Mouse finally entering the public domain, which means creators can use the iconic Disney character to...
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New Reality Show Deep Fake Love May Unleash a Lot of New Problems into The World
Netflix’s latest reality show Deep Fake Love is portraying a dark potential future. The concept is simple and diabolical: a bunch of couples go on a reality show where they...
Read Now06 2022 October
Why Are Stories That Glorify Murderers So Popular?
An increasingly popular narrative arc in storytelling is to take a classic bad guy and humanize him to flip the story. The bad guy isn't intrinsically bad - but becomes that way through some sort of trauma.
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When Success Is Measured In Hate, We All Lose
One thing that right and left wing media personalities have in common: they are both desperate to be hated. Attracting the hate of their ideological opposites...
Read Now11 2020 August
Watch Netflix Content Faster or Slower on Your Mobile Device
I spend a lot of time writing my books. For Non-Obvious Megatrends, my team of editors and I went through fourteen rounds of editing and...
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Why More People Should Skip the Hustle and Take the Paycheck
Hollywood and just about any other creative industry is filled with success stories of people to took big risks to find that “performance of a...
Read Now27 2020 July
Netflix’s Controversial New Show On Indian Arranged Marriages
A new Netflix eight-part mini-series called Indian Matchmaking has been sparking a big debate online because of how it shines a spotlight on what one observer called...
Read Now23 2020 July
5 Virtual Presentation Lessons From Comic-Con
I have wanted to go to the Comic-Con event for years, but never quite managed to make it. This year, I finally can – because the...
Read Now03 2020 February
The Best & Worst Of 2020 Super Bowl Marketing Strategy
Can a Super Bowl ad that costs nearly $6 million be worth it? That’s a question worth debating if you’re in marketing, so let’s take...
Read Now26 2019 December
5 Non-Obvious Megatrends Changing Our World In 2020
For the past ten years I have gone through an annual ritual of publishing a book about trends that describe our shifting culture and business...
Read Now12 2019 July
6 Marketing Lessons From Ed Sheeran
There is a moment during a show at the Austin City Limits where Ed Sheeran finally starts to perform his biggest hit at the time:...
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