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Dead to Me Debuted 2019, Dark Comedy About Revenge
📺 May 3, 2019: "Dead to Me" premiered on Netflix. The dark comedy, created by Liz Feldman and produced 30 episodes across three seasons, centered on the unlikely friendship between Jen (Christina Applegate), a recently widowed woman seeking revenge for...
6,000+ Women Enrolled in Free 30‑Day AI Challenge
6,000+ women joined the Women’s AI Challenge I started with 4 other creators 🤯 It’s 30 days and FREE You can still join. Link here: https://t.co/UTnXTcKWc7 https://t.co/gOwJSYXRfr
MLB's All‑Access Subscription Feels Like Joker Trap
I'm increasingly convinced MLB created this year's "all access" subscription system to turn me into The Joker https://t.co/ejXPFpQgLH
Condemning #BrokenTimes for Irresponsible Conspiracy Promotion
This is wildly irresponsible of the #BrokenTimes. I won't link to it spreading a conspiracy theory, no matter the denials. https://t.co/jip58aBLYt
Dark Angel Finale Pits Transgenic Rebels Against Seattle Police
📺 May 3, 2002: Max (Jessica Alba), Logan (Michael Weatherly) and hundreds of genetically-enhanced transgenics were readying for war with the police and the military at Seattle's Terminal City in the series finale of “Dark Angel” on Fox. The science...
Politico Brands Hunter Emails “Disinfo” Amid Repeated False Claims
FWIW: The original @Politico Gesellschaft story by serial Russia Hoax queen @NatashaBertrand asserted that Hunter's emails had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation ..." Her headline writers went with "disinfo," which conveys a more nefarious meaning. https://t.co/jR2wfaq25z
Dallas Finale Mirrors “It’s a Wonderful Life” Storyline
📺 May 3, 1991: The original “Dallas” concluded its 14-season run on CBS. The plot of the 2-hour finale entitled “Conundrum” mirrored that of the film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” as J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) is taken on a journey...
Kentucky Derby Sets Record with 19.6M Average Viewers
The Kentucky Derby averaged 19.6 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, up 11% over last year’s Derby audience That's the most-watched Derby in history. (We note here Nielsen's measurement changes as with other sporting events.) Viewership peaked at 24.4 million viewers from...
Short Netflix Window Demands Restraint on SVOD Strategy
By the way... 49 days to Netflix is 2 weekends too short. Going to SVOD is different than going to PVOD. And there are other open issues about the Narnia release in Feb. I'm not saying it won't lead to...
Hotel Ends After Five Seasons on May 3, 1988
📺 May 3, 1988: “Hotel“, the Aaron Spelling-produced prime time soap opera based on Arthur Hailey’s novel of the same name, aired its series finale on ABC. The San Francisco-set series, starring Connie Sellecca and James Brolin, ran for five...
Washington Post Ukraine Chief Among Recent Layoff Victims
Be sure to read the story, but also the second tweet in this thread from @siobhan_ogrady, the Washington Post's Ukraine bureau chief who was caught up in the recent layoffs
Apple TV Dominates with Unexpected High‑Quality Shows
Apple TV is the LeBron James of making high quality TV shows that I have no idea even existed
Nolan's “The Odyssey” Trailer Premieres on Colbert Tomorrow
The new trailer for Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY will world premiere tomorrow night on @colbertlateshow, where Christopher Nolan will be a guest. https://t.co/k9Nk2MuemN
Build Scalable Verified Trust Amid Deepfake Crisis
Honestly, with deepfakes getting better and media trust declining,if you're an entrepreneur, building something that delivers verified trust at scale is one of the biggest opportunities of our era.
Indie Platform Vocana Aims to Disrupt Spotify's Payments
Vocana is a US indie streaming platform ready to challenge Spotify's payment system and algorithm. https://t.co/VVE0BdMJVN
Newbies Spiral Into Delusion When Validation Replaces Audience Insight
Seen this pattern so many times on Twitter, specifically with people who have never developed an audience in the past: >> Unknown account >> Starts posting and growing >> Doesn't understand concept of audience/platform/content capture >> Gets 0.05% more delusional each post +...
Focus on One Semi‑Niche Newsletter to Build Reputation
I think the highest value activity you could do for yourself right now is to pick one topic that’s semi-niche and start writing about it in newsletter format once a week. Pick something you think is interesting. Make it your...
Reddit’s WAU Jumps 50% While DAU Ratio Stays Flat
I'm publishing my full analysis of Reddit's $RDDT Q1 2026 earnings tomorrow, but one thing I find striking is how sticky engagement has remained as WAUq has increased. DAUq/WAUq is essentially flat from Q2 2024 while WAUq is up by...
Uncertainty Reigns, Berkshire Shifts, Press Freedom Declines
🆓 Sunday links: the age of uncertainty, a new era at Berkshire Hathaway, and falling press freedom around the world. https://t.co/SMlUpa8zDf chart: https://t.co/QRUfAnYMyg https://t.co/vyvBDmml98
Create Once, Distribute Forever: Own Your Work
Advice for all creators: Stop being afraid to distribute your work. You created it. You should be proud of it. Share it with the world. Create once. Distribute forever.
Gilead Tightens Grip; Awaiting Testaments Episode 7 Release
Gilead is tightening its grip as Mayday's plans become clearer. But when does The Testaments episode 7 drop on Hulu and Disney+? https://t.co/oZ4vVV6SJl
AI Scales Content, Making Authenticity the New Scarce Commodity
AI isn’t just disrupting jobs, it’s rewriting entire creative industries in real time. In China, AI-generated dramas are replacing actors, cutting production costs, and flooding platforms with content audiences are rapidly consuming. What it means: when content becomes infinitely scalable, the scarcity...
Turn Substack Zero to $10K/Month in 30 Days
We took our Substack from zero to $10,000/month in less than 30 days. Here's the exact system we used: For context, we have built our paid Substack Newsletter Write With AI to: • 110,000+ subscribers • $845,000+ in digital product sales • And $425,000+ in...
B2B Video Delivers Triple Engagement and 20× Shares
Video is dominating B2B 👇 • 3x more engagement • 20x more shares • +47% CTR • 93% see ROI 🚀 If you’re not using video, you’re losing engagement. Via Giuliano Liguori (@ingliguori) #Marketing #B2B #Video https://t.co/pZb2QFEUTc
Amazon Ads $17B Quarter Signals Opportunity Beyond Sellers
Amazon Ads 101: What the $17 Billion Quarter Means for Every Marketer Who Thought It Was Just for Amazon Sellers https://t.co/5Q0PeOdyBr
AI Narrows Perspectives, Sanitizes Online Discourse
„AI is contributing to semantic contraction, or the reduction of diverse viewpoints online, and to a positivity shift, through which online writing is overall becoming more sanitized and artificially cheerful“ 🙄 https://t.co/kIsyy4aguU
IG Head Announces Nerf to Clipped Content
Adam Mosseri (Head of IG) does a pretty phenomenal job of doing Instagram’s version of patch notes. A few days ago, he announced that Instagram is going to start “nerfing” clipped content. https://t.co/aOQfO8LCZL
Even Published Books Deserve Fresh Edits for Growth
This is your reminder that just because you’ve written and published a book - it doesn’t mean you can never go back and edit it again. You can and sometimes should. I’m in the process of doing self re-edits for...
US Creators Rank Video Production as Top Future Investment
Video production is the top skill US creators want to invest in for the future of their businesses. 22.4% prioritize video production, followed by 20.0% for branding, 14.3% for storytelling, and 12.8% for community building.
Steve Carell's Emmy Drought Ends with “Rooster”
Steve Carell Has 11 Emmy Noms and Zero Wins. Why ‘Rooster’ Could Finally Wake Voters Up https://t.co/HYdM7f9LUs via @variety #Rooster
Navigating Fragmented Sports Streaming: Setup Tips & Apps
With the NBA Playoffs on Prime/Peacock/NBC/ESPN and NHL Playoffs on ESPN/TNT (and F1 on Apple TV and some Premier League on USA and MLB on Netflix, etc. etc. etc.), how are people keeping up? Have you changed your TV setups to...
Starlink Spots Ad During Kentucky Derby Broadcast
Interesting… @Starlink runs ad during @NBC coverage of the Kentucky Derby. @SawyerMerritt @elonmusk @SpaceX https://t.co/Fti85qBOAp
Global Press Release Distribution with 100k Journalist Access
Ready to reach beyond Canada? I offer US and worldwide press release distribution with direct access to over 100,000 journalists, full SEO integration, and placement across Google News, Bing News, and Yahoo News. Contact: Eric@ThatEricAlper.com
Apple Music Bug Persists; Spotify Lacks Classical Support
Serious question - is anyone still working on Apple Music? Anyone at all? This bug has been around for half a decade now. Meanwhile Spotify has no classical product at all and Apple’s ‘Classical’ app is worthless)
Resist Algorithm Tyranny with Marginalian’s Ad‑free, Human Newsletter
For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human for 20 years this year: https://t.co/8ApDA5YPF6
Streaming Giants Drive Emmy Category Expansion to 41
Emmy Predictions: 41 Category-Expansion With Netflix, HBO Max and Apple Series Leading the Charge Lots of moving pieces and various updates from the past week as the Emmy season’s phase one rolls into full swing. https://t.co/bayY5ZZn34 via @variety
Spot the Gap Between Newsletter Hits and Your Feed
Running a test, given the talk about X's algorithm and links Below: the 6 most popular stories from last week's @sundaylongread newsletter. How many of them did you see on social media? How many of them do you wish you'd seen? If there's...
Posting Jesus Content Triggers Mass Unfollows—X’s Design Flaw
Each time I post about Jesus dozens of accounts unfollow me. That’s a feature of X, not a bug.
Amazon Ad Share Falls as Google and Meta Surge
"It is interesting to observe a noticeable drop in Amazon ads incremental share compared to Google advertising which itself is losing share to Meta’s FOA. For the last four consecutive quarters, Amazon ads grew at 22%. In contrast, Google advertising...
Guardian Seeks Audience Engagement Editor – Remote, $88‑98K
The Guardian is hiring an Audience Engagement Editor, remote possible, 12-month contract role, $88k-$98k. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of digital journalism trends, internet culture and communities, as well as distribution strategies. These are the types of opportunities...
Grow Newsletters with Cross‑Pollination and Lead Magnets
This newsletter grew through cross-pollination, then scaled with lead magnets. In my latest podcast episode, Sean Devlin shared his full strategy. Watch it in full by searching "Nathan Barry Show" https://t.co/fqAI3q9ezP
Rejection Fuels Success: Keep Publishing Despite Doubts
My first book was rejected by every agent and publisher. So I self-published it. Sold 60k+ copies. I thought I made it, it'd be easy now... I got an agent. My 2nd book got rejected by 27 out of 28 publishers....
Data Answers, yet Speculation Still Sways Narratives
Getaloada this #BrokenTimes headline. It poses a question, answers the question with data, but then speculates a different answer this time, for its bête noire, @ZohranKMamdani. https://t.co/8PM0hDkwJN
BrokenTimes Platforms Man Worse than Fox News
Bad enough that the #BrokenTimes chooses to give its platform over to the man too awful even for Fox News, it aggrandizes itself with a how-we-did-this sidebar. https://t.co/JTMB53YXjS
FCC Repeats Past Optimism, Overlooks Media Decline
Give me a minute to dig up statements by Democratic @FCC Commissioners from 20 years ago, predicting a very bright future for the daily newspaper industry. @AGomezFCC is saying the same thing today, only she’s referring to the local TV...
West Palm Beach Spends $2M on NYC Barron's Insert
West Palm Beach just took out a 34 page glossy tabloid that must have cost 2M + to be inserted into every Barrons in NYC. And I gotta admit it looks tempting. https://t.co/SOu0yl03PV
OpenAI's Policy Shift Cements Its Ad Platform Role
ChatGPT advertising update -> OpenAI updates its privacy policy formalizing data-sharing with marketing partners as it continues to build its ad platform infrastructure. It also explains it's receiving purchase data from advertisers. "The changes, which include explicit language about receiving...
AI‑generated Podcasts Surge, Flooding Spotify and Spreaker
Whoa -> “Podslop” is flooding listening platforms like Spotify; Podcast Index: of ~11K new podcast feeds in a recent 9-day span, ~39% were likely for AI content shows "Under the Spreaker website, if recognized by its software, the company will highlight to...
GPT-IMAGE-2 Launches: All‑In‑One Visual & Audio AI
Good news, GPT-IMAGE-2 are now live on @GlbGPT This is not another “AI tool directory” update. You can now create images, posters, comics, cinematic shots, and AI videos with physics + native audio from one workspace. https://t.co/vM8cwrzGiv