One showgirl celebrating another Taylor Swift

We've been testing Sora this week - have you tried it for your brand yet?

Figma CEO Dylan Field on the new standard for quality in the age of AI: "Good enough is no longer enough. Good enough is mediocre."

There were literally 700+ people in line for the Claude pop up this AM, insane turnout. Well done by the Anthropic team.

Out-of-home, TV ads are most effective formats across metrics emarketer.com/content/out-of… [via EMARKETER]

I’m constantly thinking about how to be a better storyteller. Even after years of sharing stories, I’m still learning. tobi lutke sent me this old Kurt Vonnegut video where he sketches out the “shapes of stories.” Simple and funny, but it nails why some arcs just work. It’s a good

One year in. Hundreds of episodes, thousands of guests, countless printed tweets. And a gong signed by Mark Zuckerberg.

History of tech is littered with great products that never achieved PMF because they were built by geeks who disdain marketing.

WSJ: Young People Are Falling in Love With Old Technology "Driven by a desire to escape screens and reclaim a sense of control, they are resurrecting digital cameras, flip phones and CDs. It’s not unusual to see them roaming the aisles of a record store or doing sidewalk photo

Marketers need to leave behind preconceptions about ‘modern’ media and study attention data to build an effective media mix – and that means reassessing their view of direct mail (and we'd say out of home, too, for some of the same reasons) marketingweek.com/mail-disruptin…

Sam Altman says there are no current plans for ads within ChatGPT Pulse — but he’s not ruling it out theverge.com/news/793073/ch…

Markets on everything. We’re proud to announce that $ICE, the owner of NYSE 🏛 and the largest exchange company in the world, is making a strategic investment of $2 billion into Polymarket, valuing us at $9 billion post-money. Our partnership with ICE marks a major step in

What does a constant stream of new AI tools mean? adquick.beehiiv.com/p/what-does-a-…

Fun Fact: #OTD in 1956, Southdale Center opens. It was the first indoor mall in the US. newspapers.com/article/star-t…

Two observations from Ben Thompson's interview with Sam Altman, published this morning: First, Altman's public position on ads has clearly softened. He says: "First of all, on the Instagram ads point, that was actually the thing that made me think, okay, maybe ads don’t always

It’s 1971. You’re still facing the Vietnam War. It’s a tense geopolitical time. You want to send the world a message, but buying and launching an international OOH campaign is impossible. “AdQuick: Buy the world an Ad.”

In Episode 73 of the Madvertising podcast, we sit down with Sayf Sharif to talk the state of analytics, attribution, and more. Check it out below or wherever you get podcasts: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1e9KV1… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/say… YouTube: youtu.be/R4Yh1B2DPjc

Thursday, October 9th x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

How Kate Spade’s new CEO plans to revive the brand modernretail.co/marketing/how-… [via Modern Retail]

In case you missed this week's Madvertising podcast on analytics & more hot topics, you can find it here adquick.beehiiv.com/p/learn-about-…