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Neal Ungerleider
Corporate Communications, Public Relations, Marketing Communications | Helping brands and agencies generate revenue, get customers, get funding and tell their story.
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Lots of links today. Things are busy! No August news vacation this year!
Let’s dig in.
How Target’s using personalized deals to turn occasional customers into regulars.
“The media’s change in how it covered the origins of the pandemic is one of the most extreme examples of groupthink in recent history. But it is far from the only case in which journalistic coverage of an important topic has radically shifted over the course of a stunningly brief span of time.”
Pinterest Fall 2024 Trend Report is here.
YouTube now accounts for more than 10% of all TV watch time. Not watch time on phones or computers. TVs.
Speaking of YouTube, they’re expanding their Shopify partnerships for creators.
More retail-and-YouTube convergence: Hot Ones is entering into a partnership with Panda Express and Blippi is releasing a branded shoe with Reebok.
Walmart+ and Burger King are partnering up to offer fast food discounts as part of Walmart+ memberships.
MrBeast’s employee handbook is, err, a HR nightmare.
Spirit Airlines is going after business travelers with bundles that include first class-style comfortable seats, checked luggage, and free beverages.
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The Onion is reviving their print edition, which will now publish monthly.
The science of LinkedIn newsletter analytics.
“I had gone to install a dishwasher in a loft in SoHo. While working, I suddenly heard a noise and looked up to find Robert Hughes, the art critic of Time magazine, staring at me in disbelief. ‘But you’re Philip Glass! What are you doing here?’ It was obvious that I was installing his dishwasher and I told him I would soon be finished. ‘But you are an artist,’ he protested. I explained that I was an artist but that I was sometimes a plumber as well and that he should go away and let me finish.”
Why the great American political crank realignment probably includes your customers and subscribers.
Speaking of AIs acting badly… YouTube’s auto-generated summaries implied a popular Pokemon creator may have committed felonies.
Youth subcultures, 2020s edition: “The story follows a group of young social media users, across various platforms, as they drift in their political beliefs. Members of this group generally begin on the progressive left but overtime become anarcho-primitivists. Over the course of a few years, they lose hope in industrial society and get radicalized by climate change.”
Popular design software Procreate adopting an we-are-not-generative-AI manifesto.
“Anthropic, in its continued effort to paint itself as a more ethical, transparent AI vendor, has published the system prompts for its latest models (Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku) in the Claude iOS and Android apps and on the web.”
About the author: Neal Ungerleider runs Ungerleider Works and specializes in strategy and creative consulting for the digital comms world. He has written dialogue and decision trees for holograms of famous scientists for corporate headquarters, brainstormed Cannes Lions applications for one of the world's largest tech companies, helped clients sell $15,000,000 software upgrades, and works on lots of other things.