Three Proven Fixes for a Weak Newsletter
Top 3 fixes for an underperforming newsletter from Sean Devlin. Search "Nathan Barry Show" to watch the full episode. https://t.co/AAv1uciBHv
Today's Must-Read Marketing AI News Highlights
Top #Marketing #AI News Stories today: https://t.co/u9ydkMkv8q Top stories from @FastCompany @diginomica @MarketingBrew @AdobeForBiz @martechismktg @databricks @vismktg @SlackHQ @MyTotalRetail @EYnews and more. https://t.co/xheJz5XeKV
Widow's Bay on Apple TV Is Absolutely Awesome
I am here to report that Widow's Bay on Apple TV is [checks notes] fucking awesome https://t.co/7nX61QxZSS
Meta Sued Again for Training AI with Pirated Content
Another copyright lawsuit filed against Meta for allegedly using pirated works to train its AI model. I say allegedly but there is a massive trove of evidence at this point in Kadrey v Meta and Entrepreneur v Meta. Including knowingly...
Pulitzer Wins, NBA Still Silent on Clippers Investigation
One note on @PabloTorre and his team winning a Pulitzer for the Clippers story — the NBA still hasn’t done anything about this. An investigation is still pending. Obviously the Pulitzer committee was convinced by the reporting — and no...
FTC Drops Probe, Cites Free‑Speech Violation Over Musk X Report
FTC Settles With Media Matters After Watchdog Group Claimed Agency Retaliation For Article On Elon Musk’s X The probe followed a 2023 report linking ads to antisemitic posts on Elon Musk’s X. The judge ruled US Government retaliation “should alarm all Americans”...
Publishers Sue Meta for Pirated Books Used in AI Training
Major publishers sued Meta for pirating millions of books to train its AI Five major publishers are suing Meta for training its AI on pirated books. The lawsuit alleges Zuckerberg “personally authorized” massive copyright infringement. It claims Meta’s Llama AI model was trained...
James Murdoch Seeks to Buy New York Magazine
Rupert once owned New York magazine, now estranged son James Murdoch is in talks to buy it, according to @Jtoonkel https://t.co/6IopKH2Akp via @WSJ
US Revokes Visas of Costa Rican Press Board Members
Meanwhile quite a kicker in this news report yesterday on the U.S. State Department / Trump administration revoking visas for five of seven board members leading a newspaper scrutinizing the govt of Costa Rica... Fits a pattern. Hold the...
HBO Max Launches 16‑hour Harry Potter Film Recap Podcast
HBO Max to Release ‘Harry Potter’ Podcast Revisiting All 8 Original Films — Running a Total of 16 Hours https://t.co/sy48cAXPvP
Twitch Scraps Low‑usage Monthly Recap Feature
Twitch has shut down the Monthly Recap feature due to low usage. Monthly recaps were a channel-level subscriber perk that showed you your time watched, top emotes used, chats sent, and other data from that stream in the previous month.
Bing Hits 1B MAU; Google Ads, ChatGPT Updates
It's New 5/5 - @mordyoberstein covers Bing’s 1 billion human MAU, @TheMarketingAnu on Google Ads ata retention changes, @gregfinn on ChatGPT Ads CTR and Google Web Bot Auth (37 months ago news today) https://t.co/zZwsXXyzKI
First Amendment Abuses Threaten Press Freedom, Says Stelter
Grateful for the work of Brian Stelter at CNN/Reliable Sources putting this under lights. Hopefully everyone is doing the same. This is where 1st amendment abuses impact press freedom, chill sources and creep into biz interests for a free and...
From Stats to First‑Principles: Understanding User Intent
"Instead of just looking at statistical patterns of what types of people engage with what content, for the first time we're going to be able to develop a first-principles understanding of what you care about and what each piece of...
Turn Facebook Emoji Reactions Into New Followers
Author friends… need to encourage more people who’ve interacted with your posts on FB to follow you? On your business suite you can find this little button here and select which emoji they pushed that you want to send invites...
Andie Biancone Poised to Replace Donna Brothers at NBC
SPORTS MEDIA NEWS: Who will replace Donna Brothers as NBC's horse racing reporter? Andie Biancone could be in line for NBC reporting duties The story from @SBJ: https://t.co/f6oiBLIgsb
Wearable Data Shows 4.2% Co‑
A new @Nielsen study using wearables showed a 4.2% co-viewing viewership lift to big February TV events like the @SuperBowl, @DAYTONA 500, @Olympics Opening & Closing Ceremony, @NBAAllStar https://t.co/0XnkscGBjE
Google's Ad Revenue Hits $300 B After One Year
Approaching a full year, I wonder how this is coming along… Google now at $300 billion of ads market.
Local News Wins Over One-Third of 2026 Pulitzers
More than one-third of the 2026 @PulitzerPrizes for journalism were awarded to local news outlets yesterday https://t.co/ZFunqqfs9H
Gutenberg Parenthesis Explored: Print's Copy Power Transcends Digital
Delighted and grateful that Georg Fischer has translated his wonderful essay about my Gutenberg Parenthesis: Pressing Matters After Gutenberg: On the Power of the Copy From Print to Digital Media https://t.co/ExOYXUMF22
Gen Z Now Makes up over Half of Pinterest Users
While @Pinterest has long talked about Gen Z being its fastest growing demographic, what is NOT getting enough attention now is that Gen Z users represent over 50% of its 600 million monthly active users. $PINS aging down has meaningful...
Tempo Basketball Secures Canadian TV Deal with TSN, CTV, Crave
NEWS: @SBJ has learned that @TempoBasketball basketball games will broadcast and stream in Canada on @TSN_Sports. @CTV will air select games and Crave will stream select games as well during the season. Bell Media will be the official...
Ellison’s Paramount Opts for Volume over Profit per Film
Ellison's Paramount makes less per film but will release more films = Ellison's Paramount will make lots of cheap crap. Paramount Projects ‘Significantly’ Lower Theatrical Revenue; Ellison Reiterates Plan for 30-Film Annual Slate https://t.co/xjI9hiRjaB
AI Surge Triples Books, Halves Overall Quality
If you want to read the study this is from https://www.nber.org/papers/w34777 Their conclusion: "The diffusion of LLMs from 2022 to 2025 tripled new book releases. While average book quality, measured by usage, declined, the surge in releases raised the number of...
Automated Social Media Machine Generates 37 Brand Assets
Excited to share something I've been working hard on. Built a Social Media Machine to distribute and run your entire personal brand for you. 37 assets made from YOUR brand, voice, and systems It's the new marketing system for all our...
Meta's AI Scans Bone Structure, Not Faces, to Flag Kids
What could go wrong? :) -> Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” "We’re also adding visual analysis as a...
Google Ads Adds Granular Data Retention Policy
Google Ads updates its data retention policy for more granular data https://t.co/XLNzzwX4Yz via @AnthonyHigman and @beXtremeArpan https://t.co/4swmvGKLWC
DisruptTV Interviews Diginomica Co‑Founder and Business Ethics Author
On Friday @ 11 AM PT @DisrupTVShow interviews @jonerp, Co-founder @diginomica and Paul Ingram, Kravis Professor of Business at the Columbia Business School, and Author of What Do You Really Stand For https://t.co/Ee6pxM7CGr @ValaAfshar @rwang0 #DisrupTV https://t.co/K3jieVFQTv
Top Substack Creators Question Long‑term Platform Commitment
Scoop: Several of Substack's top publishers have privately weighed whether it makes sense to be on the platform longterm, raising questions about the company's ability to retain its most prominent creators.
Reuters Wins Pulitzer Exposing Meta's Toxic Instagram Practices
Timely. I was just reading unsealed emails from this weekend showing how distressed Facebook was about a headline on reporting by @JeffHorwitz stating Facebook/Meta knows how toxic Instagram is for teen girls. Pulitzer for the win.
Nash Bridges Finale Pits Don Johnson Against Cab‑driver Killer
📺 May 4, 2001: Nash (Don Johnson) tracked down a serial killer who is also a cab driver in the series finale of "Nash Bridges" on CBS. The police procedural, which also starred Cheech Marin, ran six seasons. https://t.co/c60ghwWbUc https://t.co/51XA00BEOw
Recycled Narratives Across Media Reveal a Feedback Loop, Not Journalism
Group-stink is the right word for it. The same narrative, recycled across 12 different Old Media "reporters", presented as independent analysis. That's not journalism. That's a feedback loop
Nixon‑Frost Interview Sets Record with 45 Million Viewers
📺 May 4, 1977: The first of four interviews between President Richard Nixon and journalist David Frost aired in syndication in the United States. This premiere episode drew 45 million viewers, the largest television audience for a political interview in…...
ChatGPT Automation Triples Amazon Ebook Releases
Since ChatGPT helped automate slop books, the number of new ebook releases on Amazon has tripled.
Addictive Design Isn’t Market Distortion; Platforms Merely Copy Features
It’s difficult to take the position that “addictive design” is a market distortion issue when social media companies ruthlessly implement each other’s features and time spent is so fungible. https://t.co/qbERq7iNFB
Lisa McRee and Kevin Newman Launch GMA Tenure, 1998
📺 ☀️ May 4, 1998: Lisa McRee and Kevin Newman debuted as the new hosts of ABC’s “Good Morning America”. They replaced Joan Lunden and Charles Gibson, and remained there for eight months. https://t.co/RDZzJia4g1 https://t.co/mnDhD7OUYe
Pick a Business Model, Not Just a Hobby Newsletter
Newsletter as a blog: • Publish when inspired • Hope readers find you • "Please support my writing" Newsletter as a business: • A named & claimed category • Stacks offers readers can't refuse • Monetization systems that run on autopilot Choose wisely.
Short Netflix Windows Cripple Theatrical Releases, Analysts Mislead
Belloni & Shaw think there is such thing as “a Greta deal.” They don’t even get that no one currently knows what the release of Narnia will look like outside of IMAX screens and what might or not be the...
Human Artist Crafts AI Meme for Devil Wears Prada 2
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Hired a Human Artist to Create the Film’s AI-Generated Meme https://variety.com/2026/film/news/the-devil-wears-prada-2-human-artist-ai-generated-meme-1236736381/
Meta Ad Tests Mislead without Geographic Separation or Incrementality
You can't learn "the best way to run Meta ads" by running two accounts with different setups and comparing performance. Not without separating them geographically, or running an incrementality test, or both. Without removing the overlap, the second account's existence alone changes...
Leaders Reveal Unfiltered Ambitions on Standing Table
Pull up a chair while Dan and Guy, co-founders of RiskReversal Media and contributors to CNBC’s “Fast Money,” break bread with founders, CEOs, and creators in this season of Standing Table. These guests have built empires, disrupted industries, and dominated...
Paid Media Evolved: Funding Human‑AI Content Factories
Paid media used to mean buying ads. Now it can mean paying 1,500 editors to flood the internet with clips. Clavicular reportedly made $1.1M in January, with over 90% coming from the Kick Creator Incentive Program. During peak streams, he was pulling...
AI Hasn't Crushed Ad‑tech Boom; Amazon's Apprentice Reboot Mystifies
The throng of thousands of undifferentiated ad tech startups at Possible has Alan asking why AI isn’t eliminating all this. Plus WTF is Amazon thinking with the Apprentice reboot? https://t.co/adMEcBFsm5
AI-Generated eBooks Now Make Up Two‑Thirds of New Releases
We went from 100,000 new eBooks a month to 300,000. Thanks ChatGPT. Basically 2 out of 3 new books are now AI slop.
Paramount Skips NFL Renewal, Focuses on UFC
Sat through Paramount earnings call and no questions on status of renewal talks with NFL. A lot of UFC mentions but nothing on how much more CBS may have to budget for NFL
Classic Concentration Returns to NBC in 1987
📺 May 4, 1987: Game show “Classic Concentration” hosted by Alex Trebek debuted on NBC in daytime. This marked the third edition of the “Concentration” game, following its runs from 1958-73 on NBC and from 1973-78 in syndication. “Classic Concentration”...
Fox Pulls the Plug on “Going Dutch” After Two Seasons
#Fox has canceled comedy series #GoingDutch after two seasons. Also produced by Fox. $FOXA $FOX
U.S. Watches 200 Million YouTube TV Hours Daily
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told analysts that U.S. viewers are now watching more than 200 million hours of YouTube on their TVs every single day #Streaming
Moral Panic Fuels Blind Acceptance of Unverified Bans
It's classic moral panic. These people don't care that the evidence doesn't support anything these bans claim to achieve, they're so bought into the moral panic they'll take any personal claim made by a random teacher as gospel.
Writers Chase Trends to Outcompete, Not Create
This is terrible, of course, but an important thing to understand about the book world is that a lot of writers are hopping on these bandwagons out of sheer (short-sighted) commercial self-interest. It's about taking down your competitors so you...