YouTube Extends Deepfake Detector to All Hollywood Celebs
Scoop: YouTube is opening up its deepfake detection tool to all of Hollywood. Anyone famous enough to be at high risk, whether they have a YouTube channel or not, can now sign on to use the tool.
Forbes Lets Readers Bet on Gun Control Amid Child Tragedy
Forbes has long been a joke (who wants to tell Mika?) but this is below even my low expectations for it. Thoughtless greed. In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control https://t.co/Mb3IO0wGH5
The Onion CEO Explains Infowars Takeover and Satire Business
🎙️ NEW POD: The Onion C.E.O. Ben Collins @oneunderscore__ on the company’s surprise Infowars takeover and the business of satire. Apple: https://t.co/wTBnzYvFz0 Spotify: https://t.co/u7zmENHTiL @PuckNews
Paramount‑Warner Merger Threatens Hollywood; Artists Sound Alarm
I like @RaheemKassam, but there's an obvious market power problem with Paramount buying Warner, which is why 4000+ artists and most of Hollywood opposes it. Netflix is a bit player in the dispute now. The populist right needs to see beyond...
Joe Buck Nears ESPN Jeopardy Hosting Deal
Glass Break: Joe Buck is closing in on a deal to host ESPN Jeopardy. Details at @FOS https://t.co/m85X8S6YHY
ChatGPT Ads Launch CPC Campaigns with $3‑5 Bids
Interested in ChatGPT ads? Looks like CPC campaigns are live for some advertisers. @juokaz pinged me with some screenshots. You can select between Reach or Clicks for objective and then enter your Max CPC for the campaign. ChatGPT says to...
Algorithmic Sorting Fuels Fleeting Monoculture
Current Thing Monoculture is where everybody you know seems to be talking about the same thing for 36 hours and then moves on Creates the impression that there’s nothing big that sustains attention (which is what we used to call monoculture)...
Ben Lamm Reveals Secret Government Projects Beyond Mammoth Fantasies
NEW EPISODE: A very fun, slightly spooky chat with @BenLamm, whose business plan @colossal sadly does not include a Jurassic Park for wooly mammoths but does include some government work "that may have not made it into a press...
Master One Channel Before Diversifying Distribution
Don't try to diversify distribution on Day 1. Start with one channel. Solve it. Systemize it. Automate it. When it can keep running on its own, move to the next one.
Streaming Thrives on TV Roots, Not Film Libraries
The streaming model is built on the back of TV. Film libraries still matter, but not as much as the industry once thought.
Creative Testing Beats Secret Algorithms for Scaling Success
I've hired 20+ media buyers. Here's the pattern: The ones who talked about 'secret algorithms' and 'growth hacks' were useless. The ones who talked about 'creative testing' and 'offer construction' scaled accounts. Your guru's secret sauce is a myth. Fundamentals...
Scale to 20 AI‑driven Articles for Traffic
Watching your organic traffic drop 40% after the latest Google update because you're still doing SEO like it's 2019 while everyone else adapted their AI workflows months ago What you need to do? Compete on volume Forget about 4 articles a month Go...
New Podcast Connects Today’s Events to Supply Chain History
Hey peeps. Jon of @asianometry and I have just launched @Supply_Chained A podcast exploring the link between current events & historical developments in technology, manufacturing, and supply chains. We hope you enjoy. https://t.co/4OJ57fzg0N
Watch Madrid Open 2026 Free Streams Live
Watch free streams from the Madrid Open 2026 as Sinner, Sabalenka and more descend on La Caja Mágica's clay – TV channels, broadcasters and streams. https://t.co/5I8ZBCje1m
Higher Ad Spend Won’t Fix Funnel, Drops ROAS
More Meta Ads Spend ≠ More Sales Many Indian D2C brands raise budget during festivals. Then blame ads when ROAS drops. Spend scales systems. Not broken funnels.
Seeking Elite Short-Form Editor for Daily Viral Reels
We're looking for the best short-form video editor to join my team. I host one of the biggest marketing podcasts in the world, so I need someone who can deliver top-tier quality, understands viral short-form content, and can consistently produce up...
FCC Chair Brendan Carr Invited to White House Correspondents' Dinner
Scoop: FCC Chair Brendan Carr—who has used his post to chill the speech of Trump's critics—has been invited by a media organization to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Fans Angry as Cavs Game Moves to Paywall
So f'ng mad I can't watch the @cavs tonight as @nbc decides to put it on their pay platform. But more so with Adam Silver and @nba for letting that happen. You all suck.
Two Unreported Scandals Expose Need for Independent Loudoun News
In the span of four days of doing advance interviews for the crime doc I’m developing, I’ve uncovered two unrelated scandals in Loudoun County that have never been reported. The nation’s richest county needs a nonprofit news org detached from...
New Media Isn’t New—It’s Been Here for Three Years
Who’s gunna tell em that “new media” is the shit we’ve known and done for the last three years.
Fox News Pays $787M, Still Spreads Election Lies
Of course, Ro is right. And Fox News, which paid out $787 million for spreading lies about the 2020 election, is lying.
Atlantic Consistently Targets Trump's Top Drinkers
David Maraniss is interviewing Jonathan Goldberg of the Atlantic at the UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics Shadid Awards and opens with the observation that the Atlantic has a tendency to rub up against the biggest drinkers of the Trump administration...
WGN America Launches First Original Scripted Series, Salem
📺 April 20, 2014: Supernatural horror drama “Salem” debuted on WGN America. Starring Janet Montgomery, Shane West and Seth Gabel, it was the cable network’s first original scripted series and marked WGN’s transition from a Chicago-based superstation int… https://t.co/0UsZbDGfdF https://t.co/UG1OpSgVaz
Character Limit Reveals Sloppy AI-Generated X Posts
A useful ward against slop story/science posts on X is noting which is in the character limit. All of the models struggle to do 280 character summaries on their first pass, and most of the people creating slop posts that start...
Launching a VC Satire Channel with News‑show Flair
Tempted to launch a @HustleFundVC clone of MTS/TBPN, but closer in vibe to The Daily Show/Colbert Report/The Onion.
Soap Ended; Spinoff Benson Outlasted Its Parent
📺 April 20, 1981: “Soap” concluded on ABC. The controversial sitcom ran four seasons. Its spinoff “Benson,” starring Robert Guillaume, had a longer run at seven seasons (from 1979-86). https://t.co/Jrw2yw5q72 https://t.co/aocFs4GbV9
Education, Not Tech, Determines Intelligence; AI May Dull Minds
I hate this journalistic-Luddite trope. Google didn't make us stupid, nor the internet. Lack of education leaves one stupid. AI chatbots could be making you stupider https://t.co/IMSyNob9vG
Interview with SoundCloud CEO Eliah Seton Drops Tomorrow
I sat down with SoundCloud CEO eliahseton. You can watch and listen to our talk tomorrow, April 21, wherever you get podcasts.
Unified Hub Links Agents to SMB Ad & Analytics Tools
What is the best platform for connecting agents to the everyday systems needed by SMBs? Eg support for Google and Meta ads and analytics
Alex Cooper's Media Empire Faces Unexpected Growing Pains
Great reporting from @ashleyrcarman on media darling Alex Cooper and her struggles to build a media business.
Threads Adds Shareable View‑count Card for Profiles
You can now create a shareable views count card on Threads 🆕 And choose to display your view count on your public profile Here’s my view count for the past 30 days
Copying Top Brands Is Hard; Innovate Instead
Trying to replicate @tbpn is like trying to replicate @BBC_TopGear Very very difficult. Best to attempt something different.
Free Trinkets Spark Chaos, Valuable ARCs Go Unnoticed
My publicist at Del Rey told me about the time they were giving away these cheap Star Wars pens at a Comicon at her booth and they almost had a riot. Over cheap pens. People go nuts when they think...
Tiny Elite Shapes Misinformation, Distorts Public Perception
A small fraction of online actors now exerts outsized influence over what the public sees, believes, and argues about. In a new short review paper, we trace how social media influencers can turn fringe claims into viral narratives—often by exploiting...
ESPN Waited for Cable Decline Before Launching DTC
So ESPN finally launched a direct‑to‑consumer D2C platform. But why the heck did it take so long? My view - as shared in this week's pod: I think the more useful way to look at it is through the lens of commercial...
Zero‑budget Podcast Thrives without Corporate Sponsors
If anyone wants to spend an absurd amount of cash sponsoring a podcast with uniformed technology takes, look no further than @NIApodcast We have been recording for five years (263 episodes) for $0 (our only monetization to date is one in...
Sling TV's 2026 Changes: Evaluate if Still Worthwhile
3 Big Changes Sling TV Is Making in 2026: Is It Still Worth It? https://t.co/FIDGEVoNQ1 via @YouTube
Design Shows for Clipability, Harvest Millions of Views
TBPN is a 7k-live-viewer pod that sold to OpenAI for $200M because their average clip gets 257k views. Everyone's talking about the strategy. Here's the structure: 1. Format is engineered for clippability, not the other way around 3 hours/day, live, 5 days a...
Choose Creation Over Regurgitation in the Tweet Era
In this new media world you’re either a tweet writer or a tweet reader A creator or a regurgitator
FT Raises 2026 Buyout Cap to £120k for One Year
news: The FT is offering buyouts. Pay determined by length of service. However, "for this year only, we have agreement to lift the cap on individual payments in 2026 from £100,000 to £120,000."
Riz Ahmed's “Bait” Targets 21 Emmy Categories Including Limited Series
Riz Ahmed’s ‘Bait’ Plans 21 Category Emmys Campaign, Including Limited Series (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/Lk88rl6PSK via @variety
Silicon Valley's Endless Short‑form Video Is Dying
Congrats, Silicon Valley, you built an infinite Jerry Springer machine and no one wants to use it anymore because it makes them look like Jerry Springer. Me on the inevitable death of "clipping" and, probably, the entire short-form video industry. https://t.co/JcKYLDTFR2...
The Onion to Acquire Infowars, Turn It Into Self‑Parody
The Onion Says It Has a Deal to Take Over Alex Jones’ Infowars, Plans to Relaunch It as Parody of Itself https://t.co/Pfn8DMMOGx via @variety
New Role Switcher Makes Product Shipping 100x Faster
We just made shipping a great product 100x easier @ngrushkovsky just shipped a plan / role switcher I can quickly impersonate any account on any tier with any role Ideal for quickly reviewing paywalls and feature access #buildinpublic https://t.co/rQaGV92TGl
AI Leadership Meets FIRE Principles on DisrupTV
On Friday 11 AM PT @DisrupTVShow interviews Joseph Kim, President and CEO DRUID AI, and Paul McCarthy, author of The F.I.R.E.D. Leader https://t.co/Z6ceWPWeKR @ValaAfshar @rwang0 #DisrupTV
Bots Account for 37% of Web Traffic, Redefine Analytics
Web traffic metrics increasingly hide a structural distortion. Malicious bots generate 37% of activity, so marketing analytics, ad spend and cybersecurity baselines must be recalibrated because a growing share of “users” is no longer human. Source @StatistaCharts via @antgrasso https://t.co/kfAwyiqWYw
The Onion to Rebrand Infowars as Comedy Site
SCOOP with @NYTLiz: The Onion has a new plan to take over Infowars. It has entered into an agreement to license the Infowars brand and plans to operate it as a comedy site. A Texas judge must approve the deal. https://t.co/YYPmqDHvnv
Elisabeth Moss Secures Guest Actress Emmy Nod for ‘The Testaments’
Elisabeth Moss Wins Emmys Petition, Will Compete as Guest Actress for ‘The Testaments’ After Reprising ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Role (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/2w48rqQPmW via @variety
Artemis II Unites Global Audience Through YouTube Live
When @NASA's Artemis II crew splashed down in the Pacific, they not only completed a 10-day historic mission, but also captured the world’s imagination and united a global community on @YouTube. Over the course of their journey, NASA's official YouTube broadcast...
Snapchat's Growth Hacking Sparks DAU and Engagement Concerns
⚡️ Snapchat Growth Hacking Raises Concerns on DAUs/Engagement ⚡️ $SNAP Ever since becoming a public company, Evan Spiegel, Snap’s Co-Founder, has been critical of growth hacking... https://t.co/cUVqO01ZFu