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Edition #446 Whopper of a week on news, third party cookies, TikTok, and the return of the dead internet theory. A massive week for news, still digesting but we’ll get into it. If you haven’t played with Llama3 at all, you should, it’s pretty good (on par with the others) and fast. I’d say Meta is in the AI race. Not that they weren’t, but this is good, and open source. You can play with it over at Meta.ai… Continue reading
Edition #445 Is Airchat the hot new thing? Collectively we all broke ground on new advertising highs and comments as a media channel. A topic I’ve had on my list to talk about is trust environments, places where data can be stored safely, or exchanged. It works, when there is a LOT of data and both parties want to work together, but keep their respective value. But outside that? It seems too fragmented for most other situations though. Look at… Continue reading
Edition #444 Is Robinhood’s Sherwood News all about zero cost acquisition? CitiGroup appoints a Chief Marketing & Content Officer, and Uber adopts TikTok style content. Big week of stories ahead, first up I discuss Robinhood’s foray into brand publishing. Robinhood’s Sherwood News launched this week, and it seems to be about finance culture in general. They even had launch advertisers! See campaign of the week. They said they want to staff up to 40 folks by end of year. Continue reading
Edition #443 Yahoo gets into the creator game with a savvy proposition, happy hours and programmatic finds new data. I got a text this week, it was from Wayne Blodwell. Hey, do you think folks would want to come to an Attention Happy Hour? An event for those interested in the attention space. Why not? If you’d like to join in New York, 25th of April. Leave your details. Location TBD. First one is informal, if demand will… Continue reading
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