I cover marketing for the Wall Street Journal. Very Brooklyn dad. Ambient music listener.
Brooklyn via South Carolina
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Steaming hot take from Sen. Rick Scott:
“No U.S. company should be directing customers away from American-made products and enriching our enemies — countries like Communist China that use slave labor to sell us cheap, knockoff garbage.”
SCOOP: two senators are urging the FTC today to investigate Amazon and Walmart over how their AI shopping bots treat “Made in America” claims.
Both retailers allegedly “suppress” data on domestic goods and undermine sellers making products here.
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SCOOP: two senators are urging the FTC today to investigate Amazon and Walmart over how their AI shopping bots treat “Made in America” claims.
Both retailers allegedly “suppress” data on domestic goods and undermine sellers making products here.
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Net-Favorability Of:
Google: +43%
Amazon: +41%
Microsoft: +35%
Apple: +23%
Nvidia: +11%
Anthropic: +3%
SpaceX: -1%
Tesla: -14%
Meta: -18%
OpenAI: -20%
YouGov / Aug 31, 2026
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Why is SunnyD advertising a kids drink with language born in the depths of the manosphere?
I asked Clavicular.
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AI influencers now charge higher rates than real creators in China.
Pretty interesting, esp since China has the world’s toughest restrictions on the use of fake humans in media and this comes from a state owned news outlet.
h/t @thejongardner
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Here’s my scoop from this morning
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Ad measurement company VideoAmp laid off ~20% of staff this week, citing AI as a "major platform shift"; sources: 50-60 employees were cut, including its CTO (@natives / Wall Street Journal)
(Visit Mediagazer dot com for the link and full context!)
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Which category of LinkedIn posts is most likely to be AI?
Data analytics!
And here’s my story about the how the company’s working to stop the slop.
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NEW: Rep. Krishnamoorthi sent a letter to Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan today requesting information about its paid influencer partnerships where election denialism was amplified.
“Recent reporting has raised significant questions about how election-related prediction markets are promoted
and whether existing safeguards are sufficient to prevent the spread of misleading narratives about election integrity.”
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AI videos are flooding TikTok Shop.
Creators and brands are pushing back.
Sharkninja recently warned affiliate marketers that they can’t use TikTok’s own generative AI tools if they want to keep getting paid.
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Most Americans do not have the luxury of taking months off of work to heal from mental illness.
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Sara Bareilles just stopped her performance of “Brave” at the Zohran/Bernie rally to explain to the audience that they had to clap on the 2 and 4, not on the 1 and 3.
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Happy Pride. The heads of top US Pride orgs told me that fewer corporate sponsors has become a sort of new normal, and how their strategies have changed.
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advertisement on Amazon for a tent, depicting kids with an open flame on their blanket
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I miss brand names that are also complete sentences like Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific and I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.
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Using Kenny Rogers’ Gambler in a Draft Kings ad is perverse. This is not the type of gambling he was talking about. He was talking about Cool gambling
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listening to music for airports on the bus . i don't give a fuck
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Beer is back… or is it?
I had a long chat with AB InBev’s CMO about how the company scored its first growth quarter in 3 years, and how it hopes to maintain that momentum. Some dark clouds remain as NA sales slipped 3.1%.
One secret weapon: Busch Light
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Kalshi responds to @wsj story on prediction markets loss rates with comps showing their users have better loss rates than day traders in Taiwanese stocks between 1995 and 1999, Indian options traders, sports books and traders of Brazilian equity futures.
WSJ came to us with a profitability analysis of public Kalshi profiles. Which was inaccurate, because the majority of traders keep their profiles private. So we did the analysis ourselves and gave it to the WSJ. Our analysis showed that Kalshi traders win more than they do on day trading, options, sportsbooks, and futures.
It’s the first time we’ve given out that data. We debated whether or not to give it out. But we figured it was better than a shoddy analysis that showed people lose a lot more than they actually do.
The WSJ included our points. But instead of looking at our data from multiple sides - yes, majority lose, but prediction markets > day trading, options, and sportsbooks - they kept it salacious as possible.
This same framing could have been written about real estate investing or day trading back in the day. Guess we just have to wait a few years until we get more balanced reporting?
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