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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The Machines Have Moved In. The Machines Have No Feelings.

I am a writer. I write ad copy, journalism, poetry, fiction, and essays—not necessarily in that order. Because I am a writer, I want to laugh at the idea that a machine can do what I, or what any writer does for a living. Sure, a machine can spit out words, I get that part. […]

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Are You Helping Your Clients Reach Digital Marketing Maturity?

Think with Google is a new YouTube series that seeks to educate and inspire the next generation of marketers, advertisers, and creatives with tutorials from experts in privacy, digital transformation, and AI to name a few. In related news, the 2021 Forrester Digital Marketing Maturity survey, conducted on behalf of Google, found that nearly three-quarters […]

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Now on Spotify: Magically Delicious Sugar-Coated Grooves

General Mills-owned cereal brand Lucky Charms is in the entertainment business. I’m happy to see the packaged goods brand recognize it and act on it. According to The Drum, Lucky the Leprechaun has dropped his debut album, “Magically Delicious,” which is now available across all major streaming platforms but promoted exclusively on Spotify. The album […]

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How to Improve Your ‘Digital Body Language’ and Be Understood

Reading messages carefully is the new listening and writing clearly is the new empathy. Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized leading authority, author, and advisor on 21st-century teamwork, collaboration, and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers”, she is the author of two books Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional […]

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Selfie Culture Sucks So Hard, And Dove Is Having None Of It

When you’re out and about, do you see people primping for the camera? You don’t have to look far. Selfie preparation is happening all around us, in idling cars, in living rooms, in restaurants and bars, and on the street. So many carefully curated images, so little room for reality. Because reality bites. Reality is […]

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Mozilla Is Gettin’ After It

Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind Firefox, was purpose-built to make the internet what it can be: an open tool for everyone — the powerful and the weak, the right and the left, everyone. Right now, Mozilla is on a mission to unfck the internet. “On an unfcked internet, platforms will create incentives to stop fomenting conflict […]

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Is Your Homepage All the Page You Need?

Please support Adpulp.com — subscribe now via Patreon. For small businesses who need a website, there is a myriad of options, not all of them equal. Squarespace sells the dream in this new long-form commercial. The dream is that a website opens the door to commerce. Wake up, now! Thanks. Now, that you’re wide awake, […]

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Uber Eats Delivers Food to Your Door, And Strange Commercials To Your Screens

What are you hungry for? Depending on where you live, a driver will bring it to you? In 2018, Frost and Sullivan estimated the food delivery service industry generated $82 billion in gross revenue and predicted that this number will more than double by 2025. So, $164 billion in four years. Several players are competing […]

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Brighter Futures for the Ad Industry Are Possible, Following Massive Reform

Someone moved the ad industry’s cheese. The various reactions from industry leaders have been slow and haphazard at best, but that’s starting to change. The World Federation of Advertisers has formed the Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media. “In the ancient story of the Tower of Babel, the city collapsed because its inhabitants lost the ability […]

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Square and Stripe Tell Powerful Stories of the Small Business Owner’s Struggle

Small business is the backbone of the economy. Small businesses are also a radiating pain point during this devastating economic downturn. According to WBUR in Boston, earlier this summer, MassINC Polling Group surveyed 1,868 small businesses (defined as having fewer than 500 employees). Their findings show that 44% of small businesses lost at least half […]

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Social Media Platforms Make Mountains of Money On the Back of Someone Else’s I.P.

Who do you want to program your screens? Who do you want to take you for a digital ride? It’s a fundamental question for consumers of information. When you choose the social media platforms as your answer, you become the product that they monetize via your daily obsessions and rapt attention, which is now the […]

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This Is Etsy’s Moment

Amazon.com is positioned to win right now, but the Seattle-based behemoth isn’t the only winner. For people seeking to buy direct from the maker, Etsy.com is the way to go. Etsy reported first-quarter consolidated gross merchandise sales jumped 32% year-on-year to $1.4 billion. The Brooklyn, N.Y., company is also doing well on Wall Street. Shares […]

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Digitally Divided We Fall

There has never been a time when we’ve relied more on digital tools to enable communications between people and teams. All the hype about how “working from home” is a great new answer is annoying in its shortsightedness. But that’s not what concerns me. I am more concerned about who is left out of this […]

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Many Media Companies Now Reeling from Sudden Loss of Advertising Revenue

Earlier this year, when the Oracle of Omaha said that newspapers are toast, he wasn’t kidding. “They’re going to disappear,” the Oracle said. He didn’t know that COVID-9 was about to make a bad situation much worse, but he did know that the industry was hanging by the thinnest of threads. In the United States, […]

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GoDaddy Joins The Age of Aquarius, Asks Entrepreneurs To Sing Along

Build it and they will come running towards you with their cash. That’s the digital daydream that so many people sell today, and so many more buy, myself included. Now, GoDaddy, a purveyor of domain names and web hosting services, is peddling the idea that we can make the world we want, one pushed pixel […]

Laura Desmond Meets with Advertising Students at UT, Learns Why They Block Ads

Stan Talks is a library of short videos produced by the Stan Richards School of Advertising & Public Relations in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. This new talk, released last month, features Laura Desmond, founder and CEO of Eagle Vista Partners in Chicago. Desmond is intent on building […]

John Wanamaker’s Cutting Comments Continue To Slice

At the end of the 19th century, a prominent client lacked faith in his advertising investment. “I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half,” said John Wanamaker. John Wanamaker opened and operated the first department store in Philadelphia. Wanamaker also created the first price […]

Is Google Anti-Labor? Google It!

Are today’s technology titans the new monopolies? Do the filthy rich executives say one thing and do another? Or are Silicon Valley and its satellite cities (like Austin) geek utopias where abundance is the rule? When evaluating the titan’s there are many angles to take from the customer’s perspective, privacy invasion being foremost among them. […]

When Your Truth Isn’t My Truth, Fact-Based Narratives To Support Brands Also Suffer

If you have high blood pressure or a propensity to weep for the nation, DO NOT turn on your TV today. If you do turn on the TV, the chance that you will be overwhelmed in an avalanche of state-sponsored lies is much too high. Instead, let’s hear from a man who knows a lot […]