Upfront szn is almost upon us friends. Here's some thoughts from Mark Marshall:

SCOOP: IPG scrubbed info about CEO compensation being linked to diversity goals from their site marketingbrew.com/stories/2025/0…

Go see sinners - absolutely worth the $25 I shelled out to Regal

SCOOP: Best Buy's affiliate program rates were slashed due to "broader economic factors" marketingbrew.com/stories/2025/0…

the mandatory celeb press tour: -hot ones -chicken shop date -jennifer hudson show -criterion collection -maybe call her daddy -maybe SNL

Talked to phoebe gates, bill gates' daughter, about her new company marketingbrew.com/stories/2025/0…

From a memo leaked to me by a Comcast source re: hiring of Politico editor Sudeep Reddy as the network's first Washington bureau chief: "Sudeep's appointment signals the importance of original and enterprise reporting for the future of MSNBC."

A source tells me that IPG laid off a number of analytics folks yesterday. Managers were informed an hour before that their teams were being affected. Other team members were informed of the restructure later that day. HR has been doing follow-up calls with those laid off

Some scoopy info on Versant, see leaked memo:

Yapped + gabbed with the folks at Slate Auto, the EV startup backed by bezos marketingbrew.com/stories/2025/0…

Chatted with Frank McCourt, whose Project Liberty is bidding on US TikTok. Ahead of the June 19 deadline, no one seems to know what's going on lol

SCOOP: tiktok shop is pushing livestreaming through "golden weekend live," encouraging sellers to livestream on the weekend

MSNBC is rebranding. Here's some info from the internal email a source sent me

seeing david zaslav talk about barbie at the recent goldman sachs conference...dude it's been over 2 years

I'll be covering the Google/DOJ trial from Alexandria, VA next week :))))))))))

nielsen potentially takes an L - scoop marketingbrew.com/stories/2025/1…